Siegfried Brie

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Siegfried Brie, University of Wroclaw

Siegfried Brie (born January 21, 1838 in Hamburg , † December 3 or 6, 1931 in Breslau ) was a German constitutional lawyer of Protestant faith of Jewish origin. He held a full professorship in Breslau. In 1899, Brie wrote a work on the history of the concept of common law that is still important today .

Life and career

Brie's parents were the Jewish merchant couple Samuel Isaac Brie and Jeanette , born in Hamburg, who had converted to Protestantism . Bromberg . Brie studied law in Heidelberg, Leipzig and Berlin. In 1861 he was at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Berlin with the dissertation De legibus juribusque Imperii Germanici interiter commutatis to Dr. iur. utr. PhD . From 1862 to 1864 he worked as an editor for the Berliner Allgemeine Zeitung . In 1866 he qualified as a professor at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg with a thesis on the legitimation of usurped state power . In 1869 he was appointed associate professor at Heidelberg University. From 1874 he was a full professor at the University of Rostock , from 1878 a secret councilor and a full professor of law at the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Breslau . For the academic year 1890/91 he was elected rector . In his rector's speech on October 1, 1890, he dealt with the advances in international law since the Congress of Vienna . In 1921 he retired .

family

Siegfried Brie married Sophie Schenkel , the non-Jewish daughter of the Heidelberg theologian Daniel Schenkel . With her he had two daughters and two sons: Maria, Gerhard, Friedrich Brie and Cäcilie.

Maria Dedo-Brie

His daughter Maria (1877–1960) became an author.

Gerhard Brie

His son Gerhard (born October 30, 1879 in Breslau) attended the local Johannesgymnasium, studied after graduating from high school (1896) in Breslau, Heidelberg and Leipzig, passed the first state examination in January 1900 and received his doctorate in Breslau the following month. The second state examination followed in 1904. Gerhard was a district judge in Glatz from March 1909 , rose to the rank of district judge in April 1919, and from November 1924 was in an advancement position. He had four children (1912, 1914, 1920, 1923). In April 1933, Gerhard Brie was given a forced leave of absence as a half-Jew in accordance with the provisions of the Racist Law on the Restoration of the Civil Service. However, as an "old civil servant" he was subject to an exception and - according to the text in the law - could have remained in the judicial service. Since his health was not well, he applied for a transfer to retirement under Section 38 of the 2nd Savings Ordinance (1931). His application was not accepted because he was not yet 60 years old. In January 1934, Gerhard was retired according to § 6 BBG without giving reasons. In May 1939 he lived with his family in Breslau and was later considered to have "emigrated unknown". His further fate is unknown. Two letters from 1944 that Gerhard Brie sent from Breslau to Konrad Guenther have survived.

Friedrich Brie

Siegfried Brie's son Friedrich Brie (1880–1948) became a professor of English in Freiburg and married Lothar Erdmann's sister Käthe. Friedrich Brie was allowed to practice his profession as a professor until 1937. In 1937 he was released. During the Reichspogromnacht on November 9th, Friedrich Brie was arrested and interned in the Dachau concentration camp for a few days. Afterwards, Friedrich Brie was able to continue publishing thanks to strong support from unknown sources.

Cecilia Brie

His daughter Cäcilie (born January 6, 1884 in Breslau; † 1984 in Villa Gesell , Argentina) was an actress and from 1909 to 1920 her first marriage to her "half-Jewish" colleague Paul Henckels . There are three children from this marriage; Son Timm, later called Timoteo, (* 1914, † 1993 Argentina) and daughters Hanna and Anneliese. Her second marriage was from 1920 to 1954 with the painter Eberhard Viegener and had two sons with him, Felix (also called Tobias) and Vincent, and a daughter, Amanda.

Fonts (selection)

  • De legibus juribusque Imperii Germanici interiter commutatis , dissertation, Berlin 1861.
  • The legitimation of an usurped state power. First department , habilitation thesis, Emmerling, Heidelberg 1866.
  • The state. A historical-dogmatic investigation. Section I. History of the teaching of the federal state . W. Engelmann, Leipzig 1874.
  • The present constitution of France . Schletter, Breslau 1888.
  • The progress of international law since the Vienna Congress . Speech at the beginning of the rectorate, Schletter, Breslau 1890.
  • Theory of State Relations . Grass, Barth and Company, Breslau 1886.
  • The doctrine of common law. A historical-dogmatic investigation . M. & H. Marcus, Breslau 1899 (new edition, Minerva, Frankfurt a. M. 1968).
  • The position of the German legal scholars of the reception time on common law , article in Felix Dahn on his 50th anniversary as a doctor. M. & H. Marcus, Breslau 1905.
  • The folk spirit in Hegel and in the historical school of law . W. Rothschild, Berlin 1909.
  • (together with Otto Fischer and Max Fleischmann ): Foreclosure against third-party property and conflict of competencies. Following the Hellfeld case . Expert opinion, M. & H. Marcus, Breslau 1910. (Series of treatises from constitutional and administrative law, No. 23).
  • (Editor together with Gerhard Sehling and Max Fleischmann): The Prussian water cooperatives . At the same time a contribution to the doctrine of the public cooperative (= treatises from constitutional and administrative law, volume 28), Breslau 1912.

literature

  • Otto Fischer, Rudolf Leonhard , Herbert Meyer (eds.): The Breslau Faculty of Law for Siegfried Brie celebrated the 50th anniversary of his doctorate on December 13, 1911 , Breslau 1911.
  • Short biography in: Klaus-Peter Schroeder : “A university for lawyers and by lawyers”: The Heidelberg Faculty of Law in the 19th and 20th Centuries (= Heidelberg Legal Treatises. Volume 1), Heidelberg 2010, pp. 329–331 ( limited preview in Google Book Search )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ degruyter.com
  2. ↑ Helmut Heinrichs, Harald Franzki, Klaus Schmalz, Michael Stolleis (eds.): German jurists of Jewish origin. Munich 1993, ISBN 3-406-36960-X , p. 171.
  3. ↑ Short biography of Friedrich Brie in Frank-Rutger Hausmann: English and American Studies in the “Third Reich”. Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-465-03230-6 , pp. 446-447. ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  4. ↑ Rector's speeches (HKM)
  5. ^ Hans Bergemann, Simone Ladwig-Winters: Judges and public prosecutors of Jewish origin in Prussia under National Socialism ; P. 149
  6. ↑ kalliope-verbund.info
  7. ^ Ernst Theodor Sehrt:  Brie, Friedrich Daniel Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 610 f. ( Digitized version ).
  8. ↑ Ulrich Sackstedt: Amigo Timoteo. From the actor's son to the cattle breeder, in: Weites Grünes Land. Stories of emigrants from Argentina (OutdoorHandbuch), Conrad Stein Verlag GmbH, Welver 2006, ISBN 978-3-86686-193-0
  9. ^ Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke : Encounters (2009); P. 354
personal data
SURNAME Brie, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar; University professor and rector
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 1931
Place of death Wroclaw