Wilhelm Bornemann (Crown Syndicate)

Friedrich (Ferdinand) Wilhelm Ludwig Bornemann (born March 28, 1798 in Berlin , † January 28, 1864 in Berlin) was a Prussian lawyer and politician .

Live and act

Bornemann was the son of the head of the Prussian state lottery and Low German poet Johann Wilhelm Bornemann . In 1815, he volunteered in the Wars of Liberation and later studied law in Berlin . After his first state examination in law, he accompanied his father to London in 1818 , where he was entrusted with the conclusion of a government loan with the Rothschild banking house . A year later Bornemann entered the Prussian civil service. In 1823 he became a chamber judge and came to Stettin in 1825 and later to Greifswald . The local university awarded him an honorary doctorate because of the legal writings that were created alongside his official work . Bornemann completed his habilitation and gave lectures on general land law as a private lecturer . In 1827 he was appointed higher regional judge and in 1831 appointed to the Berlin higher court. From 1837 he was a lecturer in the Ministry of Finance. Bornemann became a member of the Council of State in 1842 and secretary in 1843. Until 1846 he was a member of the Law Commission. In addition, King Friedrich Wilhelm IV appointed him the first president of the new higher censorship court. In this function Bornemann tried to moderate the censorship regulations. Just a year later, he became a director in the Justice Department. There he played a key role in the preparation of new laws and in particular civil procedure law.

During the revolution of 1848 Bornemann was appointed Minister of Justice in the March Camphausen - Hansemann Ministry. Due to his legal reform efforts before March, he was one of the most popular ministers. With Camphausen's resignation in June 1848, Bornemann also left the government. He was then the second president of the Upper Tribunal in Berlin until his death. In addition, he had been a member of the Prussian National Assembly since August 1848 as a replacement for a resigned MP . There he was a leading member of the Harkort parliamentary group . In the same year Bornemann was involved in the development of a draft for a general German exchange order. Since 1849 he was a member of the first chamber of the Prussian state parliament and represented liberal positions there. Bornemann was crown syndicate since 1860 and a year later a member of the manor house . In the early 1860s he was involved in drafting a German commercial code .

Fonts

• From legal transactions in general and from contracts in particular, according to Prussian law. For budding practitioners. Riemann, Berlin 1825, digitized .
• Legal cases and legal provisions collected from the Acts of the Royal. Appellate Court and Supreme Court in Greifswald, former Tribunal in Wismar. Issue 1: Lübsches law. Jonas, Berlin 1832, digitized .
• Systematic presentation of Prussian civil law. Using the materials of the general land law. 6 volumes. Jonas, Berlin 1834-1839;
  • Volume 1: The historical introduction, the fundamental teachings of Prussian law and the doctrine of property. 1834, digitized ;
  • Volume 2: The Doctrine of Property, and the General Part of the Code of Obligations. 1834, digitized ;
  • Volume 3: The special part of the Code of Obligations. 1835, digitized ;
  • Volume 4: The doctrine of common property, usable property and real rights. 1836, digitized ;
  • Volume 4: Family Law. 1837, digitized ;
  • Volume 6: The law of inheritance and the doctrine of family foundations and Fideicommissen. 1839, digitized .
  • in addition: Register volume : Subject register. Register of the legal passages and individual ordinances explained. 1840, digitized .
• Discussions in the area of ​​Prussian law. Issue 1. Reimer, Berlin 1855, digitized .
• The development of the law in Germany and its future, with special regard to Prussia. Reimer, Berlin 1855, digitized .

literature

• Jodocus DH Temme : Eyewitness reports of the German revolution 1848/49. A Prussian judge as a champion of democracy (= library of classical texts ). Newly edited and appended by Michael Hettinger . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1996, ISBN 3-534-12756-0 , p. 323.
• Klaus Herdepe : The Prussian Constitutional Question 1848 (= German University Edition . Vol. 22). ars et unitas, Neuried 2003, ISBN 3-936117-22-5 , (also: Dortmund, Universität, Dissertation, 1998), pp. 179, 181.
• Heinrich Göppert:  Bornemann, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 173 f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Wilhelm Bornemann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Acta Borussica Vol. 4 / II.
• History of the legal society Berlin
• Entry in Meyers Konversationslexikon 1885-1892

Remarks

1. ↑ No more published.
2. ↑ Valid as the 2nd issue of: Discussions in the area of ​​Prussian law. 1855, see: WorldCat .