Rudolf von Gneist

Gneist's grave in the old St. Matthew Cemetery in Berlin-Schöneberg

Heinrich Rudolf Hermann Friedrich Gneist , from 1888 from Gneist , (born August 13, 1816 in Berlin , † July 22, 1895 in Berlin) was a Prussian lawyer and politician .

Life

Rudolf von Gneist attended high school in Eisleben and studied law in Berlin from 1833 , where he became a member of the old Berlin fraternity in the same year . After doctorate (1838) and habilitation (1839), he was a private lecturer at the law faculty of Berlin's Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität and taught as a professor of public law from 1844. In 1845 he was appointed associate professor and in 1858 full professor at Berlin University.

Gneist was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives and the Reichstag as well as the Berlin City Council (1845–1849 and 1858–1875). From 1867 he was a member of the leadership of the National Liberal Party . He advocated the expansion of Prussia to a constitutional state and an independent judiciary. To this day he is known primarily as a leading advocate of an independent and autonomous administrative judiciary.

Gneist was a co-founder and first president of the Association for Social Policy (" Kathedersozialisten "). He was President of the 7th (1868 in Hamburg), 9th (1871 in Stuttgart), 10th (1872 in Frankfurt am Main), 11th (1873 in Hanover), 12th (1875 in Nuremberg), 13th (1876 in Salzburg), 14th (1878 in Jena), 16th (1882 in Kassel), 17th (1884 in Würzburg), 18th (1886 in Wiesbaden), 20th (1889 in Strasbourg) and 22nd (1893 in Augsburg ) German Juristentage . No other lawyer faced this event so often. In 1888 he was made an honorary member of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities in Lübeck because of his socio-political merits for the working class . In 1890 he was one of the founding members of the Association for Defense against Anti-Semitism .

He has a grave of honor for the city of Berlin in the Old St. Matthew Cemetery in Berlin-Schöneberg .

Awards

In 1888 Gneist was raised to the Prussian nobility.

Works (selection)

The formal contracts of the more recent Roman Code of Obligations compared with the business forms of Greek law , 1845.
Berlin conditions. Political sketches from March 18, 1848 to March 18, 1849 , 1849 ( online ).
The formation of juries in Germany , 1849 ( online ).
Nobility and Knighthood in England , 1853 ( online ).
Budget and Law , 1867 ( online ).
Freie Advocatur , 1867 ( online ).
Administration, justice, judicial process , 1869.
The Confessional School , 1869 ( online ).
The self-administration of the elementary school , 1869 ( online ).
Four questions on the German Criminal Code , 1874 ( online ).
Die Eigenart des Prussisches Staats , 1878 ( online ).
The rule of law and the administrative courts in Germany , 1879.
English Constitutional History , 1882 ( online ).
The national legal idea of the estates and the Prussian three-class electoral system. A socio-historical study , 1894.

literature

Erich Angermann : Gneist, Rudolf von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , pp. 487-489 ( digitized version ).
Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 148-149.
Erich J. Hahn: Rudolf von Gneist 1816–1895. A political lawyer in the Bismarckian era . Frankfurt / Main 1995, ISBN 978-3-465-02833-8 .
Alfons Friderichs (Ed.): Gneist, Heinrich Rudolf Hermann Friedrich von , In: Personalities of the Cochem-Zell District , Kliomedia, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-89890-084-3 , p. 125.
Julius Hatschek : Gneist, Heinrich Rudolf Hermann Friedrich von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 49, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1904, pp. 403-413.

Web links

Commons : Rudolf von Gneist - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Rudolf von Gneist in the catalog of the German National Library
Entry on Rudolf von Gneist in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
Works by and about Rudolf Gneist at Open Library
Rudolf von Gneist in the database of members of the Reichstag
Biography of Rudolf von Gneist . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)
Bibliography (helmut-zenz.de)

Individual evidence

^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X .
↑ Cf. on this collection of sources on the history of German social policy 1867 to 1914 , Section I: From the time when the Empire was founded to the Imperial Social Message (1867–1881) , Volume 8: Basic questions of social policy in public discussion: churches, parties, clubs and associations , edited by Ralf Stremmel, Florian Tennstedt and Gisela Fleckenstein, Darmstadt 2006, pp. 239–241, 310, 320, 322, 328, 331, 334 f., 342, 347, 366, 369, 392, 399–401, 405 -407, 410-412, 427-429, 431-434, 437 f., 449-454, 456-459, 462-473.

personal data
SURNAME	Gneist, Rudolf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gneist, Heinrich Rudolf Hermann Friedrich von (full name); Gneist, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and politician (NLP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	August 13, 1816
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	July 22, 1895
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X .

[2] Cf. on this collection of sources on the history of German social policy 1867 to 1914 , Section I: From the time when the Empire was founded to the Imperial Social Message (1867–1881) , Volume 8: Basic questions of social policy in public discussion: churches, parties, clubs and associations , edited by Ralf Stremmel, Florian Tennstedt and Gisela Fleckenstein, Darmstadt 2006, pp. 239–241, 310, 320, 322, 328, 331, 334 f., 342, 347, 366, 369, 392, 399–401, 405 -407, 410-412, 427-429, 431-434, 437 f., 449-454, 456-459, 462-473.