Eduard von Simson
Eduard von Simson ( born November 10, 1810 in Königsberg in Prussia; † May 2, 1899 in Berlin) was a German judge, university teachers and parliamentarians in the Kingdom of Prussia. He is the forgotten " first German Constitution father ".
Life
Prior to his Jewish parents Samson was baptized 1823. In March 1826, he made 15 years a high school at the Collegium Fridericianum. At the Albertus University of Königsberg, he began to study law and Kameralwissenschaft. Of his teachers, he only mentions Heinrich Eduard Dirksen. In Konigsberg, he helped Johann Jacoby at the foundation of the third Littauer - Kränzchens within the Burschenschaft generality Königsberg on 2 February 1827. The wreath was 1829 for Corp. Landsmannschaft Lithuania. Samson moved to the Friedrich- Wilhelms- University of Berlin and the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms- University Bonn and served in the Prussian army.
In 1829 he received his doctorate in Königsberg Dr. iur .. At the request of the faculty, he received the venia legendi immediately. A scholarship enabled him to study trip to Berlin, Halle, Leipzig, Göttingen and Bonn. There impressed him particularly Barthold Georg Niebuhr. Shortly after the July Revolution of 1830, he arrived in Paris. About Heidelberg and Berlin, he returned to Königsberg. Connected to the travel grant was the obligation to teach after returning in 1831 for two years as a lecturer. Unusually, he was allowed to read Pandektenwissenschaft and as early as 1833 for ao Professor was appointed. On October 3, 1835 Simson applied for appointment as full professor because his "Lectures are the most visited in the local faculty ." The faculty disagreed decided: With three o professors of Roman law, the requirements could be met, and in general are five professors in the declining number of students sufficient. In addition, another teacher of German law is more necessary and had Heinrich Friedrich Jacobson priority. Samson's teaching success tried to relativize the Faculty; it lacked the scientific penetration and publications. The curator gave this opinion to the Prussian Ministry of the spiritual, educational and medical Alan opportunities further, but called for Samson's appointment. At the request of the faculty, he recommended " a thorough review of his two dissertations ". This request the Ministry was the extent preempted on October 22, 1835, when it had requested an opinion on Samson's second thesis Carl Unterholzner in Wroclaw. Despite the rather unfavorable opinions location Simson was appointed on May 22, 1836 to Full Professor. Since 1834 Member, he became in 1846 the Council of the Tribunal for the Kingdom of Prussia.
At the instigation of his church colleagues Paul Johann Gustav Droysen and Christian students in 1852, he received a call from the University of Jena on her chair for Pandektenwissenschaft. Samson refused him. From 1855 to 1857 he was rector of the Albertina.
Parliamentarian
As MP for Königsberg Samson belonged to 18 May 1848 to 20 May 1849, the Frankfurt National Assembly, first as Secretary from October 1848 as Vice President and as of December 1848 as President. In April 1849 he was at the head of the deputation, the Friedrich Wilhelm IV brought his election to the German emperor. As this mission failed, Samson refused the continuation of the Bureau. In August 1849, he resigned as deputy for Königsberg in the Prussian House of Representatives. During the Congress of Erfurt, he led the Bureau of the Erfurt Union Parliament.
It was not until 1858 he turned back to political life. In 1860 he was appointed Vice- President of the Court of Appeal Frankfurt ( Oder). In this and the next year he led the Bureau of the Chamber of Deputies, in 1867 the Bureau in the Constituent Reichstag of the North German Confederation. He also presided over the following sessions of the North German Reichstag and the Customs Parliament.
On 3 October 1867 he brought William I the address of the first constitutional North German Reichstag after the Hohenzollern Castle. On 13 December 1870 he traveled to the head of a deputation to Versailles and brought King William the address of the North German Reichstag, by which he was asked to take him and accumulated by the German princes German imperial dignity.
Also in the Reichstag Simson was elected president; But in 1874 he had to decline because of illness re-election. In 1877 he participated in no more seat in the Reichstag. Since 1869 President of the Court of Appeal Frankfurt / Oder, Samson was appointed in the establishment of the Supreme Court in Leipzig on October 1, 1879 the President of the Court and the Disziplinarhofs. On 1 February 1891 he retired and took up his residence in Berlin.
Grave
Died at the age of 89, he was in a family grave in the cemetery III of Jerusalem and the New Church on Mehring Damm in Kreuzberg ( grave Location: 343- EB- 256a ) buried. His final resting place is recognized as an honorary grave of Berlin.
Honors
- Honorary citizen of the city of Leipzig (1883 )
- Real power. Go. advice
- Black Eagle Order (1888 )
- Order of the Lion Zähringerplatz, Grand Cross with Diamonds (1893 )
Friedrich III. gave him on 18 March 1888 at Charlottenburg Palace the Black Eagle. With the emblem of letter dated May 28, 1888 Samson was ennobled and elevated to the Prussian hereditary nobility.
After Samson Leipzig named a road, a bridge and the square in front of the Imperial Court, now the Federal Administrative Court. In Berlin, the forest walk path Samson between the Brandenburg Gate and Reichstag Building name.
Family
The younger brother George Bernard Samson was also a lawyer and a deputy in the Frankfurt St. Paul's Church. Eduard Simson was the father of the historian and employee of the Monumenta Historica Germaniae Bernhard von Simson.