Heinrich von Friedberg was a German

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 jurist

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 and statesman

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Friedberg was born in Märkisch Friedland in Pomerania

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. He studied law at the University of Berlin, earning his degree in 1836. He was attached to the Kammergericht

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 at Berlin, where he became district attorney in 1848. Transferred to Greifswald

Greifswald

Greifswald , officially, the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald is a town in northeastern Germany. It is situated in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, at an equal distance of about from Germany's two largest cities, Berlin and Hamburg. The town borders the Baltic Sea, and is crossed...

, he was appointed (1850) attorney, and became privatdozent at the university. In 1854 he was called to the Prussian Department of Justice in Berlin. He became a member of the Prussian House of Lords

Prussian House of Lords

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 (1872); assistant secretary of the Prussian Department of Justice (1873); "Kronsyndikus" (treasurer of the crown of Prussia (1875); German secretary of justice ("Reichsjustizminister) (1876); and received the same portfolio for Prussia (1879). In 1888 he was knighted and decorated with the Prussian Order of the Black Eagle

Order of the Black Eagle

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. He resigned from his official positions in 1889.

Friedberg became a Protestant

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early in his career. He died in Berlin. Among his works may be mentioned "Entwurf einer Deutschen Strafprozessordnung", Berlin, 1873