Georg Ludwig von Maurer
Georg Ludwig Konrad Maurer, ( born 2 November 1790 in Erpolzheim in Durkheim, † May 9, 1872 in Munich) in 1831 by Maurer was a lawyer, legal historian, Bavarian State and Imperial Council and ministers.
Life
Georg Ludwig Maurer came from a Reformed pastor's family from the Palatinate, who fled in 1793 before the French revolutionary army over the Rhine to Kirchheim ( Heidelberg). He attended high school and the University of Heidelberg and studied law there. The friendly relations of parents placed him in a residential road with Anton Thibaut, Christoph Martin, Carl Daub, Friedrich Creuzer, August Boeckh, Friedrich Wilken, Karoline Rudolphi and Johann Heinrich Voss. From 1812 to 1814 he continued his studies in Paris. He entered 1814 in the Bavarian civil service and in 1823 Prosecutor at the District Court to Frankenthal. His winning of the Munich Academy of Sciences of the 1st prize "History of Old Germanic, especially Old Bavarian public oral trial " brought him in 1826 the appointment at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich as a professor of German private law, the German Empire and legal history and French law a. 1829 tried to get him the University of Göttingen as successor to Karl Friedrich Eichhorn to win, but King Ludwig I held him in Munich by summoned him to his Council of State.
1830 Maurer was elected the first President of the Upper Bavarian district administrator, and in 1831 he was finally appointed to a lifelong Imperial Parliament of the Kingdom of Bavaria, with which the non- hereditary title " Maurer " was connected. In the same year, Maurer was also included as a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.
As the then 16 -year-old Bavarian Prince Otto, son of Louis I, was proclaimed King of Greece in 1832, Maurer was with Joseph Ludwig von Armansperg, Karl von Abel and Karl Wilhelm von Heideck to guide the regency in the young Kingdom of Greece during minority of king Otto appointed. During this time he brought despite great obstacles groundbreaking improvements in the Greek legal system. The legal system of modern Greece goes back to Mason.
In 1834, he became, like Abel, in conflict with Count Armansperg and was recalled by King Ludwig I to Bavaria. Abel was Interior and Finance. When Abel was dismissed in February 1847 because of his negative attitude to the naturalization of the beloved King Ludwig I, Lola Montez, the king in disgrace, Maurer was appointed to head a new liberal ministry and was Bavarian Justice and Foreign Affairs ( Ministerverweser ) and Prime Minister. He remained in this post until the end of November 1847.
Mason lived from then on mainly by his scientific work, but was also active in the Imperial Council Chamber as a speaker and has sometimes been used for political missions. His main work history of the brand Constitution in Germany appeared in 1856. Therein he developed the doctrine that among the Germanic peoples originally there was a common ownership of land on the basis of Mark cooperatives ( altfreie Mark cooperatives). This later influenced Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in their ideas of a historical primitive communism, is said to have existed before the slave economy of the ancient world.
In the years 1856-1871, that is in his 66th to 81st year, Maurer wrote an important constitutional history of the German community in 11 volumes. His theses are discussed in more critical in today's research.
1858 Maurer accompanied Adalbert of Bavaria, Crown Prince of Greece, on a diplomatic trip to the 25 - year reign celebration of Otto to Greece and Constantinople Opel to receive the Sultan, was awarded the mason with a high Turkish Medal. After a visit to Madrid with Prince Maurer returned to Munich.
Family
Maurer had two sisters, Frances and Louise Wilhelmine Maurer Friedericke Maurer, who married the German chemist Leopold Gmelin.
Maurer was married to Johanna Wilhelmina Friederike Maurer, born Heydweiller, daughter of Philip Henry Heydweiller, a Heidelberg Industriellens and businessman. The couple had two children, Charlotte Mason (1821-1874) and Konrad Maurer ( 1823-1902 ). His wife died on June 15, 1831 in Munich and masonry not remarried. His daughter Charlotte remained unmarried and took care of her father for life.
Maurer's grave is located on the Old South Cemetery in Munich. On the family grave there is a bust and below the engraved name of his deceased grandson Ludwig Maurer 1927. However, the bust is not Ludwig, the mathematician, but dar. Georg Ludwig von Maurer
1965 was the 175th birthday mason at his birthplace, the Protestant parsonage in Erpolzheim, a plaque attached. In Erpolzheim there is also a road named after Maurer.
Works
- History of the old Germanic, especially Old Bavarian public oral trial. Heidelberg 1824
- The Greek people, in public, ecclesiastical and civil law relationship before and after the struggle for freedom until 31 July 1834. 3 Bd Heidelberg 1835
- Introduction to the History of the Mark, courtyard, village and city - Constitution and the public authorities. Munich: Kaiser 1854
- History of the brand makeup in Germany. Erlangen 1856
- History of manors, of farms and Hofverfassung in Germany. 4 Bd Erlangen 1862-63
- History of the village constitution in Germany. 2 Bd Erlangen 1865-66
- History of the municipal organization in Germany. 4 Bd Erlangen 1869-71