Friedrich Heinrich Geffcken

Friedrich Heinrich Geffcken ( born December 9, 1830 in Hamburg, † May 1, 1896 in Munich) was a German lawyer, politician, diplomat and publicist.

Life

Friedrich Heinrich Geffcken was the only son of the Hamburg senator Henry Geffcken. He matriculated in 1850 at the University of Bonn, where he story it., University of Göttingen, where he studied law During his studies, he became in 1850 a member of the Bonner fraternity Franconia. After he had still been a winter in Berlin and had come there in relation to the party of the German weekly paper, he was appointed in 1854 to the Secretary of Legation at the embassy of the Free Cities in Paris, the 1855 Commissioner at the World's Fair, in 1856 the Hamburg Affaires in Berlin and 1859 Hanseatic minister resident there. 1866-68 was Geffken diplomatic representative of the Hanseatic cities at the Court of St. James in London, from where he returned in mid 1868 after the founding of the North German Confederation to Hamburg to be members of the Senate as General Counsel until 1872.

Since 1872 professor of international law and political science at the University of Strasbourg, he joined in 1881 due to illness to retire and moved back over to Hamburg.

Family

1860 marries Caroline Geffcken Immermann the daughter of the poet Carl Leberecht Immermann. The couple had four sons and two daughters, including:

• Eva Maria Victoria ∞ Felix von Eckardt (father) ( 1866-1936 ), mother of Felix von Eckardt ( 1903-1979 ), spokesman under Konrad Adenauer
• Karl Heinrich Johannes ( * May 2, 1861, † June 11, 1935 ) ∞ 1888 Antonie Schultz ( 1863-1903 )
• Otto Wilhelm Heinrich ( * June 27, 1865; † February 5, 1916 ), Professor of Law
• Walter (1872-1950), painter

A scandal

Geffcken was a political opponent of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. This took the opportunity Geffcken because of its unauthorized publication of the war diaries of the recently deceased Emperor Frederick III. of high treason to accuse. Geffcken was arrested in September, 1888. Later the charges were dropped and he became a broken man January 1889 back to freedom. Then he had to leave Hamburg and moved his residence to Munich.

Works

• The coup d'etat of December 2, 1851 and its effect on Europe ( Leipzig 1870)
• The Alabama question (Stuttgart 1872)
• Developed state and church history in their relationship (Berlin 1875)
• On the history of the Oriental War (Berlin 1881)
• The international legal status of the Pope in St. Francis of Holtzendorff Handbook of International Law (1885 )
• France, Russia and the Triple Alliance, Berlin, Wilhelmi 1893

In addition, he founded with Carl Mühlhäußer the time questions of the Christian life of the people, in which he self-published collection: Socialism ( Heilbronn, 1877 ) and the reform of the imperial taxes (1879 ). By Georg Friedrich von Martens ' and Ferdinand de Cornot de Cussys Recueil manuel et pratique de traités he edited the first volume of the second series (Leipzig 1885).