Adolf Giese (lawyer)

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Adolf E. Wilhelm Ludwig Giese (born January 24, 1852 in Rostock ; † June 1, 1923 in Niehagen , Fischland ) was a German lawyer, theologian, and Mecklenburg's senior church council president in Schwerin.

Life

Adolf Giese was born in 1852 as the son of the lawyer and later First Mayor of Rostock, Wilhelm Giese , and his wife Franziska, geb. Close After graduating from high school in Rostock in 1871, Giese studied law at the universities of Rostock, Berlin, Heidelberg and Göttingen. After passing his lawyer exam in 1877, Giese was an auditor at Toitenwinkel . After taking the judge's exam in 1879, he became a court assessor in 1880 and a district judge in Gadebusch in 1884, and from 1886 a district judge in Güstrow .

In June 1886 Giese was appointed to the Schwerin Oberkirchenrat as an unskilled worker, of which he was a legal member from October 1886. In October 1894 he became President of the Upper Church Council of the Evangelical Church in Mecklenburg as the successor to Theodor Kliefoth, who had retired after 60 years of service . In 1898 he took part in the inauguration of the Erlöserkirche (Jerusalem) by Kaiser Wilhelm II, together with Oberkirchenrat Paul Bard, as representative of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . In 1909 he became Dr. theol. H. c. of the University of Rostock. In 1911 he was honored with the title of " Excellence " as President of the Upper Church Council .

Under Giese's administration, the emeritus ordinance for the Evangelical Lutheran clergy of Mecklenburg was created, and his participation in the Mecklenburg church constitution of 1921 was of great importance. Giese was a member of the Mecklenburg Court of Justice for the decision of conflicts of jurisdiction, a member of the German Evangelical Church Committee and since 1887 a member of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology .

Adolf Giese was married to Charlotte Wöhler (1859-1923), Hellmuth Wöhler's daughter , landlord in Sweden and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly since 1883 . His younger brother was Otto Giese (1855-1904), lawyer and Lord Mayor of Altona. Adolf Giese died of a stroke on June 1, 1923 while on vacation in Niehagen on the Fischland and was buried in Schwerin.

Honors

Works

  • The Emeritus Regulations for the Evangelical Lutheran Clergy in the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1904)
  • The Increase in Suicides and the Role of the Church as a Result (1912)
  • Synodal constitution and ecclesiastical elections in the regional churches (1919)
  • Constitution of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1921)

literature

  • Giese, Adolf . In: Deutsches Zeitgenossenlexikon: biographical manual of contemporary German men and women . Schulze, Leipzig 1905, p. 446 ( digitized version ).
  • Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg-Schwerin Parishes since the Thirty Years' War . Self-published, Wismar 1925, vol. 2, p. 1005 and vol. 3, p. 1484 ( digital copy of volume 2 )
  • Fritz Niemeyer: Directory of high school graduates of the large Rostock city school from Easter 1859 to Easter 1930 . In: Walther Neumann (Ed.): The large city school in Rostock in 3 1/2 centuries . Boldt, Rostock 1930, p. 152 ( digitized version )
  • Bernd Moeller, Bruno Jahn (Ed.): German biographical encyclopedia of theology and the churches (DBETh) . Vol. 1, Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-598-11666-7 , p. 500 ( online )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry 1871/1872 and entry 1874/1875 on Adolf Giese in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ Thomas Hartmut Benner: The rays of the crown: the religious dimension of the empire under Wilhelm II against the background of the Orient trip in 1898. Marburg: Tectum 2001; Zugl .: Leipzig, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 2001 ISBN 3-8288-8227-7 , pp. 180f
  3. ↑ Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 3282 f .
personal data
SURNAME Giese, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Giese, Adolf E. Wilhelm Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and theologian
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1923
Place of death Niehagen , Fischland