Otto von Oehlschläger

Otto Karl von Oehlschläger (16 May 1831 – 14 January 1904) was a German jurist and politician.

Oehlschläger was born Otto Oehlschläger in Gut Heiligenwalde (modern Święty Gaj, Poland), he was ennobled ("von Oehlschäger") in 1888.

[1] Oehlschläger studied law at the University of Königsberg, passed his final exam in 1858 and worked as a judge at Danzig (Gdańsk), Schwetz (Świecie) and Löbau (Lubawa).

[1] Since 1879 he was the Prussian Army's "Generalauditeur", as such responsible for reforms of the military penal law.

[1] In 1889 he became Secretary of State of the Reichsjustizamt and followed Eduard von Simson as President of the Reichsgericht in 1891.