Organizing Justice: Forming the Preußischer Richterverein and Advocating for Judges
Kenneth F. Ledford
| Date: | 02-23-2012 |
| Time: | 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm |
| Location: | Clark Hall, Room 206 |
| Registration: | Registration is Closed. |
For years at the end of the 19th century, Prussian judges chafed at the higher pay and status granted to their colleagues in the general administrative bureaucracies, who had been their classmates while studying at the University. Ledford examines what were the social and cultural circumstances that in 1909 led those Prussian judges to defy the pressure from the Prussian Ministry of Justice, and to form a professional association that increasingly toward 1914 pressured the government to equalize pay and status for judicial and administrative officials. This episode of professional organization weaves together important aspects of the histories of the German state, the rule of law, the independence of the judiciary, and the cultural values of the German educated middle class in the final years of the German Empire.
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