Georg Beseler

Politician

1809 – 1888

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Who was Georg Beseler?

Carl Georg Christoph Beseler was a Prussian jurist and politician.

Beseler studied law at Kiel and Munich. He was forbidden to teach law in Kiel in 1833 due to his political activity, but he lectured at Göttingen, and Heidelberg. In 1835, he became a professor in Basel, 1837 in Rostock, 1842 in Greifswald and 1859 in Berlin.

A liberal nationalist, Beseler was a member of the Frankfurt Parliament where he participated in writing the failed 1849 German constitution. From 1849 to 1852 and from 1857 to 1887 he was a member of the Prussian House of Lords, 1850 of the Erfurt Union Parliament and 1874 to 1877 of the Reichstag.

As a notable "Germanist" opponent of the "Romanists", led by Friedrich Carl von Savigny, Beseler advocated a "people's law" based on Germanic principles as opposed to the Romanists' "jurists' law". The notions of cooperative law and social law later enunciated by Gierke originate with Beseler. He was also involved in liberalising the codes of civil and criminal procedure, and in crafting the 1851 Prussian criminal code.

Beseler was the father of Hans Hartwig von Beseler and Max von Beseler.

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Born
Nov 2, 1809
Husum
Also known as
  • Безелер, Карл Георг Кристоф
Children
Nationality
  • Germany
Profession
Education
  • University of Kiel
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Employment
  • Humboldt University of Berlin
  • University of Rostock
Died
Aug 28, 1888
Bad Harzburg

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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