Wilhelm Spies (lawyer, 1830)

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August Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Spies (born May 15, 1830 in Wolfenbüttel , † December 23, 1901 in Braunschweig ) was a Braunschweig Minister of Justice and Education and a German Imperial Judge .

Life

In 1850 he joined the old Göttingen fraternity Alemannia . Since May 2nd, 1853 he was a member of the Göttingen "Brunsviga". After studying and doing his doctorate, he entered the Braunschweig civil service in 1854. Together with his brother, who later became President of the Consistory, Gustav Spies (1833–1910), he, like Wilhelm Raabe , belonged to the "coffee" group. Former classmates of the high school in Wolfenbüttel met over coffee . In 1870 he married - like his brother Gustav - a daughter of the higher court vice-president Carl Christian Gebhard Knittel, a grandson of the discoverer of part of the Gothic translation of the Bible by Bishop Ulfilas, Franz Anton Knittel. After teaching law at the Collegium Carolinum from 1873 . taught in Braunschweig, he became a senior judge in Wolfenbüttel in 1874. In 1879 he came to the newly founded Imperial Court - initially in the III. Criminal senate . After intense personal influence by the Prince Regent of Brunswick, Prince Albrecht of Prussia and later Minister of State Albert von Otto, and after a long period of hesitation, he resigned from the Reich service in 1889 and became Minister of Justice and Education in the Duchy of Brunswick . From April 1, 1889 to January 1, 1900 he was a real privy councilor and "voting member" of the ducal state ministry. In 1891 he received the title " Excellence " and the Grand Cross of the Order of Henry the Lion . On January 1, 1900 he was retired at his request and received the Prussian Order of the Crown, 1st class. He died on December 23, 1901.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , pp. 466-467.
  • Adolf Lobe : Fifty Years of the Reich Court on October 1, 1929. Berlin 1929, p. 355, DNB 362309612 .

Web links

  • Lower Saxony education server NiBiS: Wilhelm Raabe on literaturatlas.de

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stadtchronik Braunschweig, 1900 on braunschweig.de, accessed on September 28, 2012.
  2. ↑ Frank Grobe: Compass and gear. Engineers in the bourgeois emancipation struggle around 1900. The history of the technical fraternity. Heidelberg 2009, p. 147. (Representations and sources on the history of the German unity movement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Volume 17. Ed. By Klaus Oldenhage).
  3. ^ Friedhelm Henrich: Wilhelm Raabe and German unity. The diary documents for the years 1860–1863. Munich 1998, p. 156 .
  4. ↑ Helmuth Albrecht: Technical education between science and practice - The Technical University of Braunschweig 1862-1914. 1987, p. 260.

All statements are proven by original documents and personal letters from the persons concerned in my possession. Gebhard Spies

personal data
SURNAME Spies, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spies, August Carl Friedrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brunswick Minister of Justice and Education and German Imperial Judge
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfenbüttel
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1901
Place of death Braunschweig