Niels Nikolaus Falck

Niels Nicholas Falck ( born November 25, 1784 in Emmerleff, North Schleswig, Denmark, † May 11, 1850 in Kiel ) was a legal scholar, historian and statesman.

Life

Niels Nicholas Falck came from Emmerleff, partly belonged to the Duchy of Schleswig, in part, an exclave of the Kingdom of Denmark. He studied at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel. From 1809 he worked as an assessor at the Schleswig- Holstein Registry ( until 1807 German law firm, from 1816 Schleswig- Holstein - Lauenburg firm ) in Copenhagen, the central government authority for the duchy of Schleswig and the duchy of Holstein. 1814 Falck full professor of law at the University of Kiel. Five times he was elected its rector 1819 /20, 1834/35, summer semester 1835, 1843/44 and 1847 / 48th

During the first Holstein constitutional conflict ( 1815-20 ) he was a long time advisor to the non-aristocratic landowners and supported Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann's efforts to find a constitution for the duchies, in which the former rights of Schleswig-Holstein knighthood (among election of the sovereign and control permit) should be restored. Dahlmann was at that time General Counsel of knighthood. Here also, the Treaty of Ripen from 1460 was used again. The this taken subordinate clause "dat se bliwen ewich thos amende ungedeelt ," referring to the prevention of estate settlement, was reinterpreted soon became a buzzword with proper explosive force ("up ewich ungedeelt " or "up forever ungedeelt " ), with the emergence of German nationalism in areas placed under the Danish crown duchies the demand for separation from the whole of Schleswig and Holstein due to allegedly historically securitized rights demanded.

Died in 1850 Niels Nicholas Falck in Kiel. The burial took place at St. -Jürgen Cemetery. Since the leveling of the cemetery in 1955, his tomb is located on the Park Cemetery Eichhof.

Importance

Falck was one of the most respected Rechtsgeschichtler his time, and especially his manual of Schleswig-Holstein private law has remained one of the most impressive works on the administrative and legal history of the duchies until today. In 1835 he was appointed as representatives of the University of Kiel member of both the Schleswig Holstein and the assembly of the estates in Schleswig or Itzehoe. In the second diet he was in 1838 elected as President of Schleswig estates assembly. He stepped to the successions of Magnus von Moltke, who had given up for reelection. Although he was closer in the wake of rising nationalism of Schleswig-Holstein side than the Danish, he remained primarily associated scientists and the entire Danish monarchy. Thus he lost the sympathy of the National Liberal Schleswig- Holstein. Although he came into communion with eight other professors Kiel in 1846 in Scripture of state and inheritance of the Duchy of Schleswig ( Hamburg 1846) against the open letter of King Christian VIII, with the latter wanted to settle the succession to the detriment of the Duke of Augustenburg and 1848 was also a member of the Constituent Assembly of Schleswig- Holstein, but he held back politically.

Works

• The Duchy of Schleswig in its current relation to the Kingdom Dännemark and the Duchy of Holstein. A historical and constitutional discussion; In addition to an appendix, on the relation of the languages ​​in the Duchy of Schleswig (Kiel 1816);
• Collections to approach customer of the Fatherland (Altona 1819-25, 3 vols );
• Legal Encyclopaedia (Kiel 1821; 5th ed by Rudolf von Jhering, Leipzig 1851);
• Handbook of Schleswig-Holstein Private Law ( Altona 1825-48, 5 vols ).
• How to bring about peace with Denmark and the conditions under which it is complete. Hamburg: Perthes - Besser & Mauke, 1849

Publisher

• Civic magazine ( Schleswig 1821-31, 10 vols, and index, 1834), continued as
• New civic magazine ( Schleswig 1833-41, 10 vols ) and as in 3rd episode
• Archive for History, statistics, customer management and land rights (Kiel 1842-47 ).