Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Hierarchy of Courts
- Glossary of Legal and Other Terms
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- 1 The Archimedean Point: Lawyers, Liberalism, and the Middle-Class Project
- 2 Freie Advokatur: The Blending of the Middle-Class and Professional Projects
- 3 Foundation of the Modern Profession: The Private Bar under the Lawyers' Statute
- 4 Institutional Framework: Lawyers and Honoratiorenpolitik
- 5 Growth and Diversification: Lawyers in the Province of Hannover, 1878–1933
- 6 Elites and Professional Ideology: Self-Discipline and Self-Administration by the Anwaltskammer Celle
- 7 Simultaneous Admission: The Limits of Honoratiorenpolitik
- 8 The Limits of Economic Liberalism: Freie Advokatur or Numerus Clausus?
- 9 The Limits of Political Liberalism: Lawyers and the Weimar State
- 10 Conclusion: Lawyers and the Limits of Liberalism
- Methodological Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
Methodological Appendix
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Hierarchy of Courts
- Glossary of Legal and Other Terms
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- 1 The Archimedean Point: Lawyers, Liberalism, and the Middle-Class Project
- 2 Freie Advokatur: The Blending of the Middle-Class and Professional Projects
- 3 Foundation of the Modern Profession: The Private Bar under the Lawyers' Statute
- 4 Institutional Framework: Lawyers and Honoratiorenpolitik
- 5 Growth and Diversification: Lawyers in the Province of Hannover, 1878–1933
- 6 Elites and Professional Ideology: Self-Discipline and Self-Administration by the Anwaltskammer Celle
- 7 Simultaneous Admission: The Limits of Honoratiorenpolitik
- 8 The Limits of Economic Liberalism: Freie Advokatur or Numerus Clausus?
- 9 The Limits of Political Liberalism: Lawyers and the Weimar State
- 10 Conclusion: Lawyers and the Limits of Liberalism
- Methodological Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
As discussed in Chapter 5, the fact that lawyers in private practice comprised only one-quarter to one-third of all law graduates means that a study of the social and geographic origins of all law students is an inadequate method of compiling biographical data for those students who later entered private practice. It is possible, however, first to identify private practitioners and then to use data regarding law students in order to secure a reliable source for biographical information about lawyers. This Methodological Appendix is intended to reveal clearly the methods by which the biographies of lawyers on which the analysis in Chapter 5 is based were constructed.
Annual registries of all lawyers in the province of Hannover (as well as all other provinces in Prussia), listed by the court before which they practiced, appear in the Prussian State Handbooks. In addition the yearly reports of the lawyers' chamber in Celle usually contained lists of new admittees, deaths, retirements, changes in residence, and other reasons for lawyers leaving the bar. The registry of members of the lawyers' chamber in Celle, required to be maintained as a roll of practitioners, apparently no longer exists. It was not available at the Niedersächsisches Hauptstaatsarchiv in Hannover, the Geheimes Staatsarchiv in Dahlem, the Oberlandesgericht in Celle, or the Anwaltskammer in Celle.
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- From General Estate to Special InterestGerman Lawyers 1878–1933, pp. 301 - 308Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996