Wilhelm Ludwig Demme

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Wilhelm Ludwig Demme (born March 20, 1801 in Mühlhausen / Thuringia , † March 26, 1878 in Würzburg ) was a German lawyer and writer .

Demme is the son of the writer and pulpit speaker Hermann Christoph Gottfried Demme . During his studies he became a member of the Jena fraternity in 1820 . He started working as a lawyer in Altenburg in 1826 . In 1849 he took up residence in Jena , in 1850 in Würzburg, then in Hildburghausen , and finally back in Würzburg. He made a name for himself in particular as the continuation of Julius Eduard Hitzig's “Annals of German and Foreign Criminal Justice” (Leipz. 1837–52) and for the “Book of Crimes” (das. 1851–1854, 8 vols.).

Works

  • About the decision of the preliminary question: whether a crime has been committed? Brunswick 1840.
  • The judge as a juror. Penig 1843.
  • On preventive crime policy. Altenburg 1843.
  • The basic concepts of criminal law and its guiding principles: with consideration for German legislation. For doctors, lawyers and juries. Add. with JB Friedreich and C. Barth. Nuremberg: Korn 1861.
  • Excerpt from the fight against the old crooked snake: Juristism, jurisprudence, that's how Germany has lived for centuries. Jena 1849.
  • The book of crimes. The most interesting of the ninety issues of my annals of German and foreign criminal justice. A folk book in four volumes. Leipzig: Arnoldische Buchhandlung 1851.
  • The book of crimes. The most interesting things from the old, new and recent times of the countries on this and that side of the ocean. A folk book. New episode. Leipzig: Arnoldische Buchhandlung 1852–54.
  • Roman-legal barrel organ with 160 tight songs about the… Chapter of the Holy Corpus Juris: A rare musical-legal work of art / from the Rothen Apostrophen, Marquis Rouge Guillaume Ludovic d'Emmé. Hildburghausen and Leipzig: Kesselring 1852. (Originally 1824 and T. Römisch-Juristisches Gesangbuch […] ).

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians, Part 1: A – E. Heidelberg 1996, p. 191.
  • Adriaan Pitlo: The Flea in Law and Other Curiosa from Old Legal Literature. [Holl. 1980]. Baden-Baden: Nomos 1982, pp. 131-150.

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personal data
SURNAME Demme, Wilhelm Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Mühlhausen / Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1878
Place of death Wurzburg