Heinrich von Friedberg

Heinrich von Friedberg ( born January 27, 1813 in Mirosławiec; † 2 June 1895 in Berlin) was a German lawyer and politician.

Life

He studied from 1833 to 1836 law in Berlin and then worked for the resident Superior Court, for which he worked as a prosecutor from 1848.

Since 1846, he exercised considerable influence on the legislation. Under the administration of justice minister Uhden him the creation of the oral and public inquiry process in Prussia is attributable. In the deliberations of the liberal Friedberg argued for a strong public prosecutor, which is similar to today investigate all violations of the law as the " law guardian" and should also take into account facts that exonerate the accused. In addition, Friedberg wanted to provide them with an authority over the police department. Although he was unable to fully enforce these and other progressive ideas, but the final bill was written by him, while the Minister for legislative revision Friedrich Carl von Savigny was passed over and informed later.

Some time later Friedberg went to Greifswald, there to be employed in the position of chief prosecutor from 1850. He also taught as a lecturer at the University. His next stop was the Justice Department in Berlin, where he worked as a Privy Councillor from 1857 and from 1854 as top secret Judicial Council.

Friedberg in 1868 tasked to design a Penal Code for the North German Confederation. Because of his energetic work force, it could enter into force on 31 May 1870, after the founding of the German Empire took over one essential parts of the Penal Code. In addition, Friedberg participated in the discussions on the military penal code, since he was a member of the specially appointed Commission and the Federal Commissioner.

He was 1870 President of the Judicial Examination Commission and two years later Privy upper Judicial Council and member of the Prussian House of Lords. Friedberg came in 1873 as Under Secretary in the Ministry of Justice, where he designed a German Code of Criminal Procedure. In 1875 he was appointed Kronsyndikus and on December 21, 1876 Secretary of the newly created Office of Justice. Three years later, he followed Adolf Leonhardt, Office of the Prussian State and Minister of Justice, where he stayed until 1889. A year earlier he had ennobled him. Friedberg died age of 82 in Berlin.