By Ann Goldberg
Honor in nineteenth-century Germany is generally regarded as an anachronistic aristocratic culture restrained to the duelling elites. during this cutting edge research Ann Goldberg exhibits as an alternative the way it pervaded all facets of German lifestyles and the way, in the course of an period of fast modernization, it used to be tailored and integrated into the trendy country, business capitalism, and mass politics. In company, kingdom management, politics, hard work relatives, gender and racial issues, Germans contested questions of honor in an explosion of defamation litigation. Dr Goldberg surveys proceedings, newspaper reportage, and parliamentary debates, exploring the conflicts of lifestyle and the serious politicization of libel jurisprudence in an period whilst an authoritarian country confronted off opposed to teams and participants from 'below' claiming new citizenship rights round a democratized idea of honor and legislation. Her interesting account offers a nuanced and demanding new figuring out of the political, criminal and social heritage of imperial Germany.
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269. Laws of 1798 and 1811, respectively. Wienfort, Patrimonialgerichte, pp. 322ff. The key royal decree for reforming trial procedure and introducing a state prosecutor’s office was that of January 3, 1849. This included the declaration that “no prior authorization from the government is necessary” for bringing lawsuits against the civil and military authorities: Article 95 of the Constitution of December 5, 1848. In Prussia, these reforms were instituted in two stages in 1846 and 1849. In southwestern Germany – the Rhineland (1810), Baden (1832), and Württemberg (1843) – they had occurred before the revolution.
But by the later decades of the century, injured honor was being mobilized in grassroots movements, two of which are explored in chapter 5: those of Jews and lunatics. Here, I discuss the rise in the 1890s among Jews and lunatics of a bourgeois politics from “below” that appropriated and modernized an old corporate language of honor in order to make 18 Honor, politics, and the law in imperial Germany democratic claims for the rights of citizenship. The multiple responses of Jews to the rise of political antisemitism, from conversion and assimilation to Zionism, have been explored at length in the scholarship.
The person would then have the right to a court hearing, and if the court agreed with the merits of the case, the accuser could proceed in pressing charges with the use of a court-appointed lawyer functioning as an ersatz state prosecutor. 34 As such, the 32 33 34 Speech by Schwarze at the second meeting, Verhandlungen des zweiten deutschen Juristentages, pp. 660–61. , p. 661. Verhandlungen des ersten deutschen Juristentages (Berlin, 1860), p. 71 provides Lewald’s original proposal, which was debated at length and partially amended.