Wilhelm Eduard Albrecht

Wilhelm Eduard Albrecht ( born March 4, 1800 Elbing, † May 22 1876 in Leipzig) was constitutional lawyer and professor at the Georg -August- University. Albrecht was one of the Göttingen Seven, in 1837 protesting against the abrogation of the Constitution in the Kingdom of Hanover, Ernst August I.

Life

Albrecht studied from 1818 in Berlin, Gottingen and Konigsberg. He then qualified as a lecturer at the University of Königsberg, in 1825 associate professor of law school and on October 28, 1829 was a full professor there. In 1830 he moved to Göttingen. After his release in 1837 he worked as a lecturer in Leipzig, where he was appointed in 1840 as professor of the rights and Privy Councillor. In 1847 he participated in the German literature days in Lübeck. 1848 Albrecht was in the wake of the March Revolution participants in the Pre-Parliament, and was a delegate in Siebzehnerausschuss who prepared the work on the constitution. From May 18 until August 17, 1848 he was MP for Harburg ( Elbe) in the Frankfurt National Assembly, where he was part of the Casino Group. In 1863 he was appointed a Privy Councillor, 1868 Albrecht came into retirement. His father was the astronomer Christian Ludwig Ideler.

Work

Until today its significant construction of the state as a legal person, which he developed in a review about Moors breaker " principles of modern constitutional law " in 1837. In political theory of constitutionalism until then was unclear who actually still commanding the sovereignty, because on the one hand, the monarchical principle was further strongly emphasized, but while already contained on the other hand, the former landständischen constitutions participation rights of the subjects in the exercise of sovereign power. Against this background, Albrecht came to the conclusion that the state must be legal entity itself. In terms of the general ruler and his subjects would be entitled and obliged, while they (sort of in the private sector ) would have its own sake rights and to someone else 's sake obligations as individual entities otherwise exclusively as a principal or members of the State as its own legal personality. In contrast, the main focus was represented among others by Otto von Gierke theory of the state as a real legal entity, the particular criticized on Albrechts theory that the state Albrechts is a mere (legal ) fiction and the ruler of his office after the manner of a legal guardian must exercise an incompetent mentally ill and speak the Supreme Court on behalf of a shadow right. Although he had been appointed in 1869 to a life-long member of the First Chamber of the Saxon parliament, he took part in the meetings only in winter 1869/70. Only one word message is delivered.

Works

• The Gewere as the basis of the earlier German property law. Königsberg 1828