William Joseph Behr
Michael William Joseph Behr ( born August 26, 1775 in Sulzheim; † August 1, 1851 in Bamberg ) was a German constitutional lawyer and politician.
Behr studied philosophy and law in Würzburg and Göttingen and was from 1799 to 1821 professor of constitutional law in Würzburg. Due to the Carlsbad Decrees him permission was withdrawn to lecture. From 1821 to 1832 he was the first mayor of Wurzburg and published " Conversations of a mayor with his fellow citizens " out. The boldness, notably occurred with the Behr as Bavarian Landtag for the principles of constitutionalism, the Bavarian government moved to open an investigation against him, which drew his dismissal from the mayor's office by himself. After several years of investigation into demagogic intrigues and lese majeste (for example, as a subscriber of Gaibacher festival), he was sentenced in 1836 to apologize in front of the portrait of the king and a fortress penalty of indefinite duration. Behr spent the subsequent years only on the fort, then under police supervision in Passau, Regensburg and Bamberg, until he was rehabilitated in 1847 and released on March 6, 1848.
From 18 March to 21 September 1848 he was attached Members and interim president of the Frankfurt National Assembly for the electoral district of Kronach.
From the city Volkach of William Joseph Behr Award is awarded for excellence in performance Rates History on Franken- school camp castle Gaibach. After Behr was in Würzburg the road that leads from the road to the woman Zeppelin country place named. 1983 was adopted by the City Council of the City of Würzburg unanimously, for individuals who have been particularly used in civic participation and democracy in Würzburg to create the Behr Medal. Behr was made an honorary citizen of Würzburg ( 1819) and Volkach. In the Munich Hall of Fame Behr is honored with a bust.
Works
- Attempt a general definition of legal difference between feudal and feudal glory Highness (1799 )
- The organism of the Rhine [ German ] Federal, for Behufe its purpose, so far as he is now determined to positive, and materials used to qualify that organism (1807 )
- Systematic presentation of the Rhenish Confederation ( 1808)
- System of applied general political theory or of statecraft ( policy) ( 1810)
- What are the main requirements must satisfy a Criminal Code in order to be recognized as satisfactory can? (1813 )
- New demolition of the State Science Teaching ( 1816)
- The right and the duty of governments in relations to the current Theuerungsangelegenheit (1817 )
- Suggestions in relation to the financial moments of the new Constitution of the State baierischen (1818 )
- State Scientific Reflections on the origin and main moments of the new Constitution of the State baierischen (1818 )
- Speech to celebrate the first year anniversary of the introduction of the Constitution of the State Baierischen (1819 )
- Comments on the draft law for the introduction of the wine sales charge (1819 )
- From the legal limits of the influence of German on the constitution, legislation and administration of justice of its members states ( 1820)
- The doctrine of the husbandry of the State or pragmatic theory of financial legislation and financial management (1822 )
- Requirements on Bavaria's parliament in the years 1827/28 and Unpartheyische scientific judgment of his negotiations
- Critical illumination of the negotiations of the Bavarian Parliament 1827/28 (1828)
- Perforce appeal to the public voice against the procedure of the Chamber of Deputies in Bavaria against him (1828 )
- Needs and desires of Bavaria ( 1830)
- Short hints of the task of the upcoming Constituent Assembly to Frankfurt ( 1848)
- General police science teaching or pragmatic theory of police legislation and administration (1848 )