Otto von Oehlschläger

Otto Karl von Oehlschläger (1831 to 1904) was a German jurist and politician, born at Gut Heiligenwalde, now Święty Gaj in Poland, and ennobled in 1888. He studied law at the University of Königsberg, passed his final examination in 1858 and worked as a judge at Danzig, Schwetz and Löbau, then as a prosecutor at Marienwerder from 1864 and at Königsberg from 1870. From 1874 he served in the Prussian ministry of Justice in Berlin and from 1879 as Generalauditeur of the Prussian Army, responsible for reforms of military penal law. He became a member of the Prussian House of Lords in 1883, President of Berlin's Kammergericht on 1 January 1885 and Secretary of State of the Reichsjustizamt in 1889. In 1891 he succeeded Eduard von Simson as President of the Reichsgericht, a post he held until his retirement in 1903.