Preface: History of the Registrar Profiler The Faculty of Law of Berlin University has existed since the founding of the University in 1810 alongside the Faculties of Theology, Medicine and Philosophy. The statutes of the University of Berlin of October 1816, which remained in force until the enactment of the "Statutes of the Prussian Universities and Technical Colleges" in 1930, had provided in § 4 for the formation of a "legal department".(1) The constitution and the legal status of the Faculty of Law resulted from the "Statutes of the Faculty of Law of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin" of 1838.(2) Thereafter the Faculty of Law had the task of teaching law. The rights and duties of the faculty as an authority consisted 1. in the supervision of teaching in its fields and its completeness; 2. in the supervision of students in scientific and moral respects and the granting of benefits and bonuses; 3. in the granting of academic dignity."(3) The first lectures were held in the winter semester 1810/11 by Professors Schmalz, von Savigny and Biener.(4) The number of students enrolled at the faculty was 53 in the first semester of its existence, then fell to six during the wars of liberation, and then grew continuously after the end of the war (summer semester 1825: 585, winter semester 1830/31: 701). In addition to its teaching activities, the Faculty of Law at Berlin University had since its foundation the character of a so-called "Spruchkollegium"(5) According to the procedural law in force at the time, the Spruchbehörde had the task of drafting judgments in proceedings before the courts. Through the introduction of the Reichsjustizgesetze after the Reich unification from above the Spruchkollegien lost their meaning. Although regular seminaristic exercises had already been carried out since 1819, above all to introduce the older sources of law, it was not until 1875 that a "Legal Seminar" was founded, which had the task of primarily preparing young academics for academic research through exercises in the field of legal history.(6) Since 1908, the Legal Seminar has served the education of all students. In 1887, the German Studies Department of the Law Department became the "Seminar für deutsches Recht" (Seminar for German Law), which was initially directly subordinated to the Ministry of Culture. The Legal Seminar existed until 1945. In addition, the "Criminalistic Seminar" had existed since 1899, which had to train the next generation of university lecturers in criminal law as a specialist seminar. From 1887 to 1896, on the basis of an agreement with the Russian government under the direction of Professor Eck, the so-called "Russian Institute" was concerned with the training of Russian students in Roman law.(7) In the following years, and especially since 1918, several other institutes were founded, such as the "Church Law Institute" in the summer semester of 1917 and the "Institute for Foreign and Economic Law" in the winter semester of 1920/21. On 1.11.1935 the "Institute for State Research" was transferred from Kiel to the University of Berlin. In February 1936, the former Faculty of Law was renamed the Faculty of Law and Political Science, and the areas of political science and economics that had previously belonged to the Faculty of Philosophy were integrated into the new Faculty.(8) Thus, the new Faculty was expanded to include the "Department of Political Science and Statistics", which had previously belonged to the Faculty of Philosophy. The "Kommunalwissenschaftliche Institut", which was founded in August 1928 as the first of its kind in Germany, was also transferred to the Faculty of Law and Political Science. The task of this institute was to provide an introductory training for candidates of higher career in municipal service. On 1.1.1937 a new "Institute for Commercial Law" was founded. The director Professor Hedemann had headed a similar institute at the University of Jena. In 1937 two further institutes were founded, the "Sozialwissenschaftliche Institut für Volkswohlfahrtspflege" and the "Institut für Wohnungs- und Siedlungswesen". The so-called Sozialwissenschaftliche Institut für Volkswohlfahrtspflege, which had been founded by the fascist NS-Volkswohlfahrt, had the task, under the direction of the head of the main office Hilgenfeldt, of working on the area of Volkswohlfahrtspflege. The "Institut für Wohnungs- und Siedlungswesen" (Institute for Housing and Settlement), which was concerned with teaching and research activities in the field of housing and settlement, should also be mentioned. With effect from 1.10.1938, the "Institute for Labour Law", which had previously existed at the University of Kiel, was transferred to the University of Berlin. Professor Siebert became director of the institute. In February 1940 the "Staatswissenschaftlich-Statistische Seminar" was given the name "Institut für Wirtschaftswissenschaft". By decree of the Reich Ministry of Science of 12 March 1940, the "Institute for Air Law" was moved from Leipzig to Berlin and assigned to the Faculty of Law and Political Science. Since the winter semester of 1942/43 there has been an "Institute for Commercial and Company Law" under the direction of Professor Gieseke. In March 1943 the "Institute for Youth Law" was founded, which according to the statutes had the task of teaching and research in the field of youth law, especially in the field of neglect research. The institution was particularly supported by the Reich Ministry of Justice and the Reich Student Leadership.(9) According to the files available, this institute did not seem to have been active until the collapse of the fascist state. In January 1943, the Department of Politics of the Institute for Politics and International Law was transferred from the University of Kiel to the Faculty of Law and Political Science under the name "Institute for Politics".(10) Nothing is known about the effectiveness of this institute, which was moved to Wittenberg in September 1944 and whose director was Professor Ritterbusch. After the reopening of the university in 1946, the aforementioned institutes were dissolved, with the exception of the Institute of Labour Law, Criminalistics and the Legal Seminar. (1) cf. Statuten der Universität zu Berlin, Berlin o.J. S.5 (2) cf. "Statuten der Juristischen Fakultät der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin", Berlin 1838 (3) ibid. § 3 (4) cf. Vorlesungsverzeichnis und Index lectionum der Universität Berlin für das erste Semester ihrer Bestehens 1810/11, facsimile print, Berlin 1910 (5) cf. "Geschichte der Berliner Juristischen Fakultät als Spruch-Kollegium" by E. Seckel in: Lenz, Max, History of the University of Berlin, vol. 3, Berlin 1910, p. 449f (6) cf. in this regard: Lenz, Max, a.a.O. S.25f (7) cf. UA of HU, Jur. Fak. No. 60 and 61 (8) see Official Gazette of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of 1.4.1936, page 7 (9) see UA of the HU Best. UK, No.824 (Institute for Youth Law) (10) cf. UA of HU Best. UK, Nr.823 (Institut für Politik) Registratur- und Bestandsgeschichte 1. Registraturverhältnisse The registry of the Faculty of Law has been administered centrally by the university registry since the University was founded(1) The order within the registry has been arranged very simply in alphabetical keyword order. This order was maintained until 1945. Since the tasks and the structure of the faculty have remained constant since its foundation in 1810, the registry conditions have also remained unchanged. 2. access The holdings have been in the university archives since 1954. As a result of the alphabetical order of keywords, the use was extremely difficult. Only a keyword overview was available. 3. archival treatment The existing keyword order could not be taken as a basis for the order, since there were no factual connections. Therefore, three main groups with the corresponding subgroups were formed. This structure is clear and unambiguous, providing the user with a well-structured inventory overview. A name and subject register is located at the end of the index. The order and distortion was carried out in the summer of 1966. A revision took place in 2008/09/10. (1) see Findbuch Rektor und Senat der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin, 1835-1945, S.IX, Berlin 1962 in the UA of the HU Quellennachweis: 1.Archivalien: Archiv der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Bestand Universitätskurator Nr.823, 824 Bestand Juristische Fakultät (Dekanat) Nr.60, 61 2.Druckschriften: Official Gazette of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin from 1.4.1936 Chronicle of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin Years 1915-1938 Lenz, Max: Geschichte der Universität Berlin, vol. 3, Berlin 1910 Personal- und Vorlesungsverzeichnis der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin, 1920-1945 Statuten der Universität Berlin, 1920-1945 Statuten der Juristischen Fakultät der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin 1838 Vorlesungsverzeichnis und Index lectionum der Universität Berlin für den erste Semester ihrer Bestehens 1810/11, Faksimile-Druck, Berlin 1910 Bestandsgliederung A Fakultätsangelegenheiten 1. Fundamental questions of science and higher education policy 2. Statutes of the Faculty 3. Minutes of Faculty Meetings 4. Election of the Dean 5. Organisation of Studies 6. Lectures, Internships, Courses 7. Course Catalogues 8. Chairs 9. Institutes and Classrooms 10. Study Reform and Curricula 11. Celebrations, Anniversaries, Honours 12. Scientific Societies 13. Conferences and meetings 14. Foreign relations 15. Cash, fees and fees 16. Libraries and publications 17. History of the university and the faculty 18. Habilitations 19. Doctorates and honorary doctorates B Affairs of the teaching staff 1. Professors-S., generalia 2. official clothing of professors 3. busts and pictures of deceased professors 4. appointments and emeritations of ordinary professors 5. income of professors 6. honorary professors, lecturers, assistants, lecturers 7. support of the surviving dependents of professors 8. support of the surviving dependents of professors Voluntary work 9. Expert activity C Student matters 1. Previous training of students 2. Matriculations, exmatriculations 3. Examinations 4. Foundations and support 5. Sports, work service and compulsory military service 6. Disciplinary matters 7. Associations and clubs Citation: HU UA, Faculty of Law.01, No. XXX. HU UA, Jur.Fak.01, No. XXX.
Preface: Biographical information about the descendant Emil Seckel was published on 10.1.1864 in Neuenheim-Heidelberg as son of the pharmacist Dr. phil. Georg Seckel was born. The Seckel family owned the Löwenapotheke in Stuttgart. There Emil Seckel attended the Eberhard-Ludwigs-Gymnasium. From 1882 to 1886 Seckel devoted himself to the study of law in Leipzig (among others with Hellwig) and Tübingen. After completing his studies in 1887, he began working as a trainee lawyer at the Stuttgart-Stadt district court. In 1889 he went to Tübingen as a private scholar and in the following years travelled through the libraries and archives of Germany, France and above all Italy. On 21.2.1895 he received a doctorate in law in Tübingen for his work "Zu den Akten der Triburer Synode 895" without having passed a doctoral examination in the true sense. Shortly afterwards, on 17.7.1895, he habilitated as a private lecturer in Berlin, which became his second home. At the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin he was appointed extraordinary professor for Roman law on 13.6.1898 and ordinary professor for Roman law on 24.11.1901. From 1905 to 1906 he was Dean of the Faculty of Law. Seckel's work at Berlin University was crowned by his activity as rector in 1920/21. In 1912 Seckel became a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences at Heinrich Brunner's suggestion. In addition, in 1915 he became head of the Leges of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Since 1916 he was also co-editor of the journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. Seckel's scientific development was strongly influenced by the Tübingen law faculty, especially by G. Hartmann, H. Degenkolb and G. Mandry. His unprinted beginner's work "The foundation's foundation, especially among the living, according to Roman-Justinian law, as well as according to the teaching of glossators and postglossators up to the 16th century" led him to the field of science that was decisive for him, legal-historical research. Here he made a considerable contribution to the restoration of classical Roman law and to research into the further development of post-Justinian vulgar law in the Middle Ages. He also contributed significantly to the study of the history of the origin of canon law from Roman and Germanic roots. Seckel's great knowledge of the legal manuscripts of the Middle Ages deserves special mention. Thus, the edition of unknown or previously incorrectly edited legal-historical sources occupied a large space in his work. However, Seckel always saw his studies on the history of law from the point of view of improving the understanding of current law. On the occasion of the centenary of Berlin University, Seckel was awarded the title of Red Eagle Order IV in 1910. Class awarded. On the occasion of his 60th birthday, he also received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Philosophy at Königsberg University. From his marriage with Paula Hinschius, daughter of the church law teacher Paul Hinschius, which was closed on 10.5.1898 in Berlin, three children emerged: Irmgard, Helmut and Dietrich. Emil Seckel died after a long illness on 26.4.1924 in the sanatorium Wehrawald near Todtmoos in the Black Forest. Publications The establishment of the foundation, in particular also among the living, according to Roman-Justinian law, as well as according to the teaching of glossators and postglossators, Preisschrift, Tübingen 1886 (handwritten) Contributions to the history of both rights in the Middle Ages. Vol.1 On the History of Popular Literature under Roman-Canonical Law, Tübingen 1898 Gai institutionum commenrii quattuor, separatum ex Juresprudentiae Anteiustinianae reliquis a Ph. Eduardo Huschke composites ediderunt E. Seckel et B. Kuebler, Leipzig 1903, 1906, 1908 History of Roman legal sources (supplement to lectures), 1904 Heimann's Handlexikon zu den Quellen des römischen Rechts (9th edition, newly edited), Jena 1907 Juresprudentiae Anteiustinianae reliquias in usum maxime academicum compusitus a Ph. Eduardo Huschke editione sexta aucta et emendata ediderunt E. Seckel et B. Kuebler, Leipzig vol.1 1908, vol.2 1911 Commemorative speech on Konrad Hellwig, 1913 Roman law and its science in the course of the centuries (speech at the beginning as rector), Berlin 1921 Paläographie der juristischen Handschriften des 12. bis 15. und der juristischen Drucke des 15. und 16. Die Summa Vindocinensis, Berlin 1939 (aus dem Nachlass herausgegeben von Erich Genzmer) Essays On the Files of the Tribur Synod 895, 1st treatise, in: Neues Archiv der Gesellschaft für ältere deutsche Geschichtskunde, 18.Bd. 1893 2 Abhandlungen in: New Archive, Vol. 20, 1895 Dr. Gustav Hartmann (obituary) in: Schwäbischer Merkur, Stuttgart 1894, No.273 Glosses for the Lex Dei from Cod. Just, Collectio Dacheriana, Benedictus Levita and Pseudo Isidor, in: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History, Rome. Dept., 20 Vol. 1899 Paul Hinschius, in: Deutsche Juristenzeitung, Vol. 4, 1899 Studies on Benedictus Levita, in: Neues Archiv I 26.Bd. 1901 II-V 29.Bd. 1904 VI 31.Bd. 1906 VII, Part I 34.Bd. 1909 VII, Part II 35.Bd. 1910 VII, Final Part III 35.Bd. 1910 VIII, Part I 39.Bd. 1914 VIII, part II 40.vol. 1916 VIII, part III 41.vol. 1917 The reorganization of the legal training course in Prussia, in: Deutsche Juristenzeitung, 7.Jg. 1902 The oldest canones of Rouen, gift for Karl Zeumer on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of his death.Birthday, 1910 Source finds on Lombard feudal law, in particular on the Extraroganten collections, in: Festgabe der Berliner Juristischen Fakultät für von Gierke, 1.Bd. 1910 Distinctiones Glossatorum, in: Festschrift der Berliner Juristischen Fakultät für Ferdinand von Martitz, 1911 inaugural speech at the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, in: Sitzungsberichte 1912, II Über den Gnomen des Idios Nogos, in: Sitzungsberichte, 1913, II Benedictus Levita decurtatus et excerptus, in: Festschrift für H. Brunner on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his doctorate on 8.4.1914 On three lost emperor laws from the Staufer period, in: Sitzungsberichte 1915, I Heinrich Brunner (obituary), in: Neues Archiv, 40.vol. 1916 The Files of the Worms Synod 868, in: Meeting Reports 1920 About the Carthaginian Inscription CIL 25045 - A Monument to Montanism under Canon Law, in: Meeting Reports 1921, I The Aachen Synod of January 819, in: Neues Archiv, 44.Vol. 1922 The 1st time of Pseudoisidor, the Hadriana review "In nomine domine incipit praefatio libri huius" and the history of invocations in legal sources, in: Sitzungsberichte 1922 Various articles in Hauck's Realenzyklopädie Editor Texts on the history of Roman and canonical law in the Middle Ages Evidence of further publications Seckels in: Abraham, Paul: Emil Seckel, an organic bibliography, 1924 Information about the person of Emil Seckel 1st Archival sources: Archive of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Stock University Curator, Personalia vor 1945, S 41 Stock Faculty of Law, Dean's Office vor 1945, current no. 16 (pp.199R), 16/1 (pp.6R, 17, 66), 64, 145, 494 (pp.105, 130-131, 136, 142-143, 252-256, 258), 495 (pp.10-11, 55-57, 66, 172-174), 497 (pp.64-74) 2nd library sources: Words at the grave of K. Holl, G. Roethe, V. Bruns, E. Heymann, 1924 Bruns, Victor: Emil Seckel in memory, in: Berliner Hochschul-Nachrichten 1924, 11th semester, 1.issue Feder, Ernst: Emil Seckel , in: Berliner Tageblatt, 53.Jg. Nr.207 Genzmer, Erich: Zum Todde Emil Seckels, in: Königsberger Allgemeine Zeitung, 1924 Nr.212 Heymann, Ernst: Emil Seckel , in: Deutsche Juristenzeitung, 29th year, 1924, Issue 11-12 Heymann, Ernst: Gedächtnisrede auf Emil Seckel, in: Sitzungsberichte 1924 Kipp, Theodor: Emil Seckel , in: Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Rome. Abt., 44.Bd., 1924 Krammer, Mario: Emil Seckel, in: Vossische Zeitung, 1922 No.528 Krammer, Mario: Emil Seckel , in: Das Recht, Rundschau für den deutschen Juristenstand, 28.Jg. 1924, No.9 Menasse, Rudolf: Emil Seckel, ein Nachruf, in: Frankfurter Zeitung, 68.Jg., 1924 No.374 Menasse, Rudolf: Der Geist der Wissenschaft, in memoriam Emil Seckel, in: Zentralblatt für juristische Praxis, Vienna, 1924 42nd ed. Roces, W.: Emilio Seckel Revista de derecho privato, 11th volume No.130/131 Roethe, Gustav: Rede bei Übergabe des Rektorats der Universität Berlin, Berlin 1924 Emil Seckel, Professor of Law, died 26.4.1924 (A Collection of Obituaries and Memorial Speeches on the occasion of his Death), Berlin 1926 (with picture) The Faculty of Law of the University of Berlin from its Founding to the Present, ed. by O. Liebmann, Berlin 1910 (with picture) Abraham, Paul: Emil Seckel, eine Bio-Bibliographie, Berlin 1924 Genzmer, Erich: Gedächtnisschrift für Emil Seckel, Berlin 1927 Inventory history The estate of Emil Seckel was among the files of the collection Faculty of Law, Dean's Office before 1945, and was segregated. A registry order of the estate was not recognizable. The estate was processed according to the principles of order and registration of the archives of the GDR and the order was carried out according to factual aspects. A revision took place in 2009. 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