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Friedrich Gottlob Nagelmann (1889-1994) was a fictional German jurist, philosopher and constitutional scholar. Nagelmann has been credited with numerous legal publications and was the subject of satirical treatises.

Background
It's unclear who invented Nagelmann, although there seems to be a connection to other prominent fictional characters, like the fake member of the Bundestag Jakob Maria Mierscheid, the fictional psychologist and the equally invented diplomat. Nagelmann is one of the most noted fictional German academics.

Most of the details of his life are recounted in the memorial publication ''Das wahre Verfassungsrecht. Zwischen Lust und Leistung'', which was written by multiple prominent German scholars like Roman Herzog, Ernst Benda and Kay Nehm.

Fictional biography
Nagelmann was born on 3 September 1889 in Insterburg, East Prussia. He studied law in Königsberg, Heidelberg, Greifswald and Berlin between 1910 and 1915 and earned his doctorate working at the department of fictional professor M. E. Chandon. At some point he married Käthe von Erckenschwick, née Cabrioli-Caspari with whom he had twins in 1938 and 1939. In the Nazi era, Nagelmann was working at the Justice Department on ordinances for bailment and collection. During this time he also wrote a book of poems and his autobiography. When World War II began, Nagelmann was deferred from fighting due to his bad hearing. In 1940, he met the fictional female lawyer at the University of Greifswald with whom he had an affair. This resulted in the birth of a daughter, Renate (b. 1940). Letters found by Renate after her mother's death reveal that Nagelmann and Heinbostel stayed in contact at least until 1958.

Not having been a member of the Nazi Party, he kept being employed at the Justice Department after the war until he was deputed as the first research associate to the newly created Federal Constitutional Court in 1952. At the Court, he was instrumental on working on multiple decisions, including one about hunting laws in municipal parks. Due to his extraordinary judicial skills, he was asked to stay on after reaching the age limit for retirement but retired in 1956. In the following years, he met a young Jakob Maria Mierscheid whose political career he supported.

Nagelmann disappeared in 1959 on the day of the signing of the Antarctic Treaty on his way home from his publisher. In 1984, members of the Federal Constitutional Court and other prominent legal scholars wrote a memorial publication about Nagelmann and his life and achievements.

In 1992, Nagelmann reappeared and came out of retirement to serve as a commissioner for mystical facts at the University of Potsdam. He died aged 105 on 29 February 1994 [sic] by choking on a frog in his throat. His eulogy was given by Roman Herzog, the President of the Federal Constitutional Court.

Influence
Nagelmann purportedly published a large number of essays and works but these only exist in references by other authors. In 2009, a 1995 essay of Nagelmann's entitled "Der Parlamentarier als Störenfriend - für mehr Ordnung im Bundestag" ("The member of parliament as a troublemaker - for more order in the Bundestag") was cited in a book about injunctive relief regarding publications on the Internet.

He also is credited as the author in other works, such as a passage in a commentary on a provision of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany that no longer is relevant.

Nagelmann inspired other fictional jurists, such as, who purportedly was a leading female jurist and his lover.