Samuel von Cocceji

Samuel von Cocceji (1679–1755) was a Prussian jurist born in Heidelberg. He took his doctorate in 1699, became a law professor at Frankfurt an der Oder in 1702, and by 1731 was president of Prussia's highest court of appeal in Berlin.

As Grand Chancellor from 1747 under Frederick II, he reorganised justice first in Silesia and then across all Prussia, clearing court backlogs, requiring trained judges, and issuing the Codex Fridericianus Pomeranicus in 1747 and the Codex Fridericianus Marchicus in 1748.