August Adenauer

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Franz Johann Ludwig August Adenauer (born May 10, 1872 in Cologne , † October 10, 1952 in Augsburg ) was a German lawyer .

Life and work

August Adenauer was the oldest of five children of the judicial officer Johann Conrad Adenauer (1833–1906) and his wife Helene, b. Scharfenberg (1849–1919), born. His youngest brother was the future Chancellor Konrad Adenauer . He graduated from high school at Apostelgymnasium in his hometown and studied law at the universities in Bonn , Berlin and Heidelberg . At the respective places of study he joined the Catholic student associations Arminia , Askania and Palatia . Adenauer completed his studies with a doctorate to become a Dr. iur. The clerkship he made - as his brother Konrad - the Royal District Court of Cologne from. Then he settled there as a lawyer . With Maria Greven he married the daughter of a wealthy Cologne family and thereby gained access to higher social classes.

Gravestone on the family grave, Melaten cemetery , Cologne

As a reserve officer of the Bonn Hussar Regiment, he took part in the First World War from 1914 to 1918 and then had to rebuild his office in Cologne. Soon he was considered one of the best Cologne lawyers and received an honorary professorship at Cologne University . During the time of National Socialism , he too suffered from the disadvantage of his family, he lost almost all clients, but became the most important legal advisor for his brother Konrad and helped him, among other things, to suppress criminal proceedings.

In August 1945 August Adenauer was recommended by Hans Carl Nipperdey to the British occupation authorities as one of the suitable persons to reopen the law faculty of the University of Cologne. In his hometown of Cologne, Adenauer did a lot for the reconstruction of the Romanesque church of St. Pantaleon .

Adenauer last lived in Gielsdorf near Bonn . He died in 1952 on a trip in Augsburg. His grave is in the Melaten cemetery (hall 20 in E) in Cologne.

Awards

literature

  • Robert Steimel: Cologne heads . Steimel, Cologne 1958, column 26.
  • Konrad Adenauer: Memories 1945–1953 , DVA 1965, ISBN 3-421-01140-0 .
  • Hans-Peter Schwarz: Adenauer. The rise 1876–1952 . 3. Edition. DVA, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-421-06323-0 , pp. 64ff.
  • Thorsten Hollstein The constitution as a “general part”. Private law method and conception of private law with Hans Carl Nipperdey (1895–1968) . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2007, ISBN 3-16-149080-0 .

Web links

Commons : August Adenauer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See: Yearbook of the Cartel Association of Catholic Student Associations in Germany (KV) , twenty-ninth year 1931, printed as a manuscript, Germania Berlin 1931, p. 700.
  2. ↑ 1935 Greven's address book Cologne and the surrounding area. Volume 77, Cologne 1935, Part I, p. 6.
  3. ↑ Ibid.
  4. ↑ Ibid.
personal data
SURNAME Adenauer, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adenauer, Franz Johann Ludwig August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1952
Place of death augsburg