Julius Friedrich Theodor Engel (27 August 1842 in Schleswig – 2 April 1926 in Hamburg) was a German judge and politician.

The lawyer was president of the Hamburg Parliament between 1902 and 1913.

[1] Engel studied law in Kiel and Heidelberg until 1867 and became a Notar (roughly notary public) in Schleswig-Holstein a year later.

He joined the public service of Hamburg in 1880 as a judge and was promoted to the office of president of the Landgericht Hamburg in 1901.

On the political stage he was elected as a right-wing member of the Hamburgische Bürgerschaft in 1887 and served as president of this body between 1902 and 1913, when he stepped down as an MP.