Anton Stabel 9 October - 22 March was a Baden lawyer , judge and statesman. For a number of years he was the Grand Duchy's senior judge. Subsequently, following a succession of ministerial appointments, he became president of the council of ministers and minister of state head of government - often, if very loosely, translated into English as "Minister-President" , serving between and Anton Stabel was born into a protestant family at Stockach , today in the extreme south-west of Germany.
When he was born, however, the region was contested between the French empire and the disintegrating Holy Roman Empire. Stabel was born less than a year after the Battle of Austerlitz , which had triggered the rapid Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire.
His father, Jakob Stabel was a senior government official in Stockach [ 7 ] which, till , was the administrative capital of the Nellenburg Langraviate. Nellenburg had been administered, on behalf of the House of Hapsburg , by Austrian bailiffs for more than three centuries, till Stabel's childhood coincided with a period of military and political turbulence.
In the district was transferred by the French emperor to Baden , of which it would remain a part throughout and beyond Anton Stabel's life. Other student societies he joined were the local "Burschenverein" and the "Burschenschaft Feuerreiter". In he became a member of the Old Heidelberger student fraternity. On 15 January , after passing the necessary state law exams , Stabel embarked, on a legal internship. Following a two year traineeship spent in regional government offices at Ettenheim and Wertheim , he was accepted for work as a government lawyer by decrees of the Interior Ministry, dated 1 December , and of the Justice Ministry, dated 19 January The next year, still aged only 26, he accepted the additional appointment of "Prokurator" at the nearby High Court for Baden.
There are indications that he had been in poor health during the later s, and the administrative nature of the government job he took in may have been less stressful than the schedule under which he had been operating as an advocate. New procedural rules implemented in May placed a far greater importance on oral pleadings, delivered in open court, than had applied hitherto. Stabel's crisp advocacy style favoured sharpness and brevity. His pleadings were factual and law-based.
