Christoph Ernst Friedrich von Forcade de Biaix was a German Rittergut owner, Appellate Court Judge in Hamm, Supreme Court Judge in Berlin and Member of parliament in the German Reichstag.
Background
Christoph Ernst Friedrich von Forcade de Biaix was the son of Rittmeister Friederich Georg Leopold von Forcade de Biaix (* 9 January 1793 in Winzig, Breslau. † June 1831 in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia) and his wife Anna Maria, Freiin von Krane zu Matena (* 1788 in Münster. † 8 November 1884 in Soest, North Rhine-Westphalia).
He was born protestant but converted to catholicism after his marriage.
Career
Forcade-Biaix completed his secondary education at the Gymnasium in Soest and studied Case Law at the universities of Bonn, Göttingen and Berlin. He began a career in law in 1844 and became Judge in the District Court of Bochum in 1855, Appellate Court Judge in Hamm in 1865 and Supreme Court Judge in Berlin in 1873. In July 1878, he was reelected to the same seat.
On 1 October 1879, he was appointed to the V. Zivilsenat des Reichsgerichts, a division of the Supreme Court responsible for decisions on matters related to civil property law, where he remained a member until his retirement in 1890.
He resigned his appointment as a Judge on the Supreme Court on 14 October 1879.
Membership
From 1874 to 1877 he was a member of the German Reichstag for the Centre and the constituency of the government district of Dusseldorf 5 (Essen). On 24 November 1877, he advanced through the by-election in the constituency of government district of Trier 1 (Daun, Prüm, Bitburg), winning the seat that had been held by Member of Parliament Ferdinand von Hompesch-Bollheim.