Otto Karl von Oehlschläger (16 May 1831 – 14 January 1904) was a German

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and

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Biography

Oehlschläger was born Otto Oehlschläger in Gut Heiligenwalde (modern Święty Gaj, Poland), he was ennobled ("von Oehlschäger") in 1888. Oehlschläger studied law at the

University of Königsberg The University of Königsberg (german: Albertus-Universität Königsberg) was the university of Königsberg in East Prussia. It was founded in 1544 as the world's second Protestant academy (after the University of Marburg) by Duke Albert of Pruss ...

, passed his final exam in 1858 and worked as a judge at Danzig (Gdańsk), Schwetz (Świecie) and

Löbau Löbau ( Upper Sorbian: Lubij) is a city in the east of Saxony, Germany, in the traditional region of Upper Lusatia. It is situated between the slopes of the Löbauer Berg and the fertile hilly area of the Upper Lusatian Mountains. It is the ga ...

(Lubawa). In 1864 he became a prosecutor at

Marienwerder Kwidzyn (pronounced ; german: Marienwerder; Latin: ''Quedin''; Old Prussian: ''Kwēdina'') is a town in northern Poland on the Liwa River, with 38,553 inhabitants (2018). It is the capital of Kwidzyn County in the Pomeranian Voivodeship. Geog ...

(modern Kwidzyn) and in

Königsberg Königsberg (, ) was the historic Prussian city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia. Königsberg was founded in 1255 on the site of the ancient Old Prussian settlement ''Twangste'' by the Teutonic Knights during the Northern Crusades, and was name ...

in 1870. In 1874 he was removed to the Prussian ministry of Justice in

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

. Since 1879 he was the Prussian Army's "Generalauditeur", as such responsible for reforms of the military penal law. In 1883 he became a member of the

Prussian House of Lords The Prussian House of Lords (german: Preußisches Herrenhaus) in Berlin was the upper house of the Landtag of Prussia (german: Preußischer Landtag), the parliament of Prussia from 1850 to 1918. Together with the lower house, the House of Re ...

and legal advisor of the Prussian crown, in 1884 a member of the Prussian Staatsrat and President of Berlin's

Kammergericht The Kammergericht (KG) is the ''Oberlandesgericht'', the highest state court, for the city-state of Berlin, Germany. As an ordinary court according to the German Courts Constitution Act (''Gerichtsverfassungsgesetz''), it deals with criminal a ...

on 1 January 1885. In 1889 he became Secretary of State of the

Reichsjustizamt Reichsjustizamt (English: "Office for National Justice") was the highest authority of the law in the German Empire, and was the predecessor of ''Reichsministerium der Justiz'', the Reich Ministry of Justice. Reichsjustizamt was under the jurisdic ...

and followed

Eduard von Simson Martin Sigismund Eduard von Simson (10 November 1810 – 2 May 1899) was a German jurist and distinguished liberal politician of the Kingdom of Prussia and German Empire, who served as President of the Frankfurt Parliament as well as the first Pr ...

as President of the Reichsgericht in 1891. He remained in this position until his retirement in 1903. Oehlschläger died in Berlin in 1904.

References

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