Robert Römer

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Grave in the Pragfriedhof Stuttgart

Robert Römer (born May 1, 1823 in Stuttgart ; † October 28, 1879 there ) was a German legal scholar and politician.

Life

Römer was the son of the former March Minister and politician Friedrich von Römer . He attended high school in Stuttgart. He then studied law in Tübingen and Heidelberg . In Tübingen he joined the Corps Suevia Tübingen in 1842 . He received his doctorate as Dr. jur. He then worked as a lawyer in Stuttgart before becoming a law lecturer in 1852 . In 1856 he was appointed associate professor and in 1857 full professor in Tübingen. In particular, he taught Roman law and private law in Württemberg . A number of legal works were valued by contemporary colleagues. Between 1871 and 1879 he was a judge at the Reich Higher Commercial Court in Leipzig .

In particular, he was politically active. Between 1864 and 1871 he was his father's successor as a member of the state parliament for the Geislingen area in the second chamber of the Württemberg state estates . He was a co-founder and leading politician of the German Party in Württemberg and, since 1866, has been in favor of German unity in the Prussian-Little German sense . Due to his appeal to the Leipzig Higher Commercial Court, he gave up his mandate in the Württemberg state parliament.

In the first two electoral periods from 1871 to 1877, Römer was a member of the Reichstag for the constituency of Württemberg 14 ( Ulm , Heidenheim , Geislingen ) . He did not join any parliamentary group, but remained an independent liberal. In the Reichstag, among other things, he campaigned for the imperial legal regulation of the immigration and transferability of judges. He was also on the side of Otto von Bismarck's culture war policy . He shared his view that the Center Party would recognize not the emperor but the pope as the highest authority. Römer rhetorically intensified the conflict with the question "Rome or Germany".

On November 30, 1878, he suffered a stroke and has been ill ever since.

Works (selection)

  • The expiry of the plaintiff's right after the initiation of the process in its relationship to the final judgment. A historical and dogmatic contribution. Stuttgart 1852, digitized
  • The burden of proof regarding the error under common civil law and trial. Stuttgart 1852, digitized
  • The conditional novation according to Roman and modern law. Tübingen 1863, digitized

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 197 , 242.
  2. ^ Fritz Specht, Paul Schwabe: The Reichstag elections from 1867 to 1903. Statistics of the Reichstag elections together with the programs of the parties and a list of the elected representatives. 2nd Edition. Carl Heymann Verlag, Berlin 1904, p. 245.
  3. ^ Thomas Ormond: Dignity of a judge and loyalty to the government Service law, political activity and discipline of judges in Prussia 1866–1918. Frankfurt 1994, p. 113
  4. ↑ Otto Plant: Bismarck. The founder of the empire. Munich 2008, p. 700
  5. ^ The memoirs of the lawyer Viktor von Meibom (1821-1892): a legal life between theory and practice, with a preface by Jürgen Vortmann, 1992, pp. 118f., ISBN 978-3-7708-0986-8 .

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SURNAME Romans, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar and politician (DP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1879
Place of death Stuttgart