Wilhelm Mansfeld (lawyer, 1831)

Wilhelm Mansfeld (1831–1899), photography

Wilhelm Mansfeld (born May 7, 1831 in Wolfenbüttel , † August 26, 1899 in Braunschweig ) was a German judge and in the last seven years of his life president of the Braunschweig Higher Regional Court .

Life

Wilhelm Mansfeld came from the old Braunschweig legal family Mansfeld. His father, Philipp Mansfeld, was a senior judge in Wolfenbüttel. After converting from the Jewish to the Protestant faith in 1826, he also became a notary there. Wilhelm Mansfeld studied law from 1850 at the Georg-August University . In 1854 he was reciprocated with Günther Jansen in the Corps Teutonia Göttingen . As an inactive , he moved to the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . He became District Court Secretary on April 1, 1863 and shortly thereafter received the title of Assessor . In 1865 he became a voting member of the college of the Wolfenbüttel district court. In 1867 he became secretary of the court and in 1869 a public prosecutor. In 1874 he was then senior judge at the Wolfenbüttel Higher Appeal Court .

In 1877 the then Brunswick Justice Minister Trieps informed him that Mansfeld should be relieved of his duties at the Supreme Court in order to be entrusted with drafting various state laws related to the reorganization of the judiciary brought about by the Reich legislation. Mansfeld devoted himself to this task for about 2 ½ years, which particularly concerned land register and procedural law . In this context, some publications and comments on Braunschweig laws were published.

He then took on a leading role in the reorganization of the Braunschweig judiciary: he became the first President of the Braunschweig Regional Court . After the death of the then President of the Higher Regional Court, Albert Schmid , he succeeded him in 1892. For health reasons, which were due to his years of overhaul, he retired after a short term in office in 1898 and died shortly afterwards on August 26, 1899.

Wilhelm Mansfeld was highly valued in the Brunswick judiciary because of his excellent legal knowledge. Allegedly, he was never a victim of anti-Semitic attacks. Mansfeld's sons Richard Mansfeld and Wilhelm Mansfeld were also successful judges. Richard became Reich judge at the Reich Court in Leipzig, Wilhelm Mansfeld the Younger was also President of the Braunschweig Higher Regional Court from 1945 to 1948.

Publications

• The land register laws of the Duchy of Braunschweig. Issued with the government motifs and individual notes. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1878; 2nd ed. 1889, OCLC 837016379 .
• The forest, hunting and fishing penal laws of the Duchy of Braunschweig. Issued with explanations. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1879, OCLC 258519697 .
• The Braunschweig implementation laws for the Reich justice laws. With the government motives and individual explanations. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1880, OCLC 16352449 .

literature

• Hans-Jürgen Derda : Mansfeld, Wilhelm [sen.] . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 402 .
• Dieter Miosge : Wilhelm Mansfeld the Elder Ä. (1831-1899) . In: Edgar Isermann, Michael Schlüter (Ed.): Justice and Lawyers in Braunschweig 1879–2004: 125 years of the Higher Regional Court and the Braunschweig Bar Association. Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 2004, ISBN 3-926701-62-5 , pp. 133-134.
• Dieter Miosge: The Braunschweig family of lawyers Mansfeld. In: Rudolf Wassermann (Hrsg.): Justice in the course of time: Festschrift des Oberlandesgericht Braunschweig . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1989, ISBN 3-926701-07-2 , pp. 328-348.

Web links

• Mansfeld work "The Land Register Laws of the Duchy of Braunschweig" in digitized form at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 48/38