Otto von Oehlschläger
Otto von Oehlschläger ( born May 16, 1831 Good Heiligenwalde, East Prussia province; † January 14, 1904 in Charlottenburg, Brandenburg Province) was a German lawyer. From 1891 to 1903 he was president of the Supreme Court and is described as " highly conservative ".
Name and Family
The name Oehlschläger or Öhlschläger is to be found in archives and internet entries in both spellings. After the Kösener Corp. lists the spelling with " Oe " is correct. Also the Genealogical manual of the aristocracy and documents in the Secret State Archives Prussian Cultural Heritage they use.
Otto von Oehlschläger was the son of the Prussian civil servant Karl Oehlschläger (1801-1855), tenant of the domain Heiligenwalde in Kr Prussian Holland. He married on May 24, 1861 Marie Mellenthin ( born February 8, 1840 in Ristow, Pomerania Province; † November 2, 1930 in Berlin). Her son was the writer Hans von Oehlschläger (* 1862).
Life
From 1850 Oehlschläger studied law at the Albertus University of Königsberg. In 1851 he was one of the founders of the Corps Baltia Königsberg.
It was in 1858 Gerichtsassessor, then took over judgeships in Schwetz and Lobau and entered 1864 in the service of the prosecutor Marie Werder. From 1870 on, he worked at the city and county court in Königsberg, 1874 for the lecturers Council was appointed in the Prussian Ministry of Justice. He was one of the editors of the three-volume Prussian forestry and hunting laws ( 1878-1880 ).
In the office of Generalauditeurs which he held from 1879, Oehlschläger developed comprehensive proposals to reform the military procedural criminal law. He was a member of the Prussian House of Lords in 1884, a year later a member of the Prussian State Council, Kronsyndikus and President of the Supreme Court.
On 5 May 1888 the Emperor Frederick III. elevated to the Prussian nobility, he was State Secretary in the Reich Justice Office 1889. 1890/91 he was chairman of the Second Civil Code Commission. In 1891 he followed Eduard von Simson as the second President of the Supreme Court. The Albertina in 1894 awarded him the Dr. iur.. hc An eye disease forced him on November 1, 1903 - shortly after his 50 years of service - to resign. At a consequence of the accident he died the following year in Charlottenburg. One son was an officer and painter, the other died soon after the forestry studies.
Since 1886 he was a member of the wicked society in Berlin.
Honors
- Real power. Go. Council entitled Excellence
- Order of the Crown ( Prussia) 1st class
- Red Eagle Order with oak leaves 2nd and 1st class
- Honorary membership of the Corps Baltia (1888 )
- Ennoblement in the Three Emperors year
- Grand Ducal Hessian Merit
- Black Eagle Order (1901, Two Hundred Years of Prussia)