Adolf Wach

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Adolf Eduard Ludwig Gustav Wach (born September 11, 1843 in Culm on the Vistula, † April 4, 1926 in Leipzig ) was a German legal scholar .

Adolf Wach (pastel by Anton Klamroth , Leipzig 1907)

Live and act

During his studies in 1862 he became a member of the Allemannia Heidelberg fraternity . After studying law in Berlin, Heidelberg, Königsberg (doctorate in 1865) and Göttingen and completing his habilitation in canon law and procedural law in Königsberg in 1868, Wach became a full professor in Rostock in 1869 , in Tübingen in 1871 and in Bonn in 1872 .

Wach was a full professor at the University of Leipzig from 1875 to 1920 . His specialty was civil procedural law .

From 1879, in addition to teaching, he was assistant judge at the Leipzig Regional Court. Wach was appointed to the Royal Saxon Privy Council and was at times a member of the Saxon First Chamber as a representative of the University of Leipzig.

He was a member of many organizations: He was on the church council of the Nikolaikirchgemeinde , a member of the regional synod. He was a board member of the Association for Inner Mission , the Association for Bible Dissemination, etc. Wach is said to have sought the appointment of Saxon minister of culture and an ennoblement and was considered a snob:

“The grande allure man was awake . Of the students, he was interested in the barons, counts and princes. Wach and his family ostentatiously did not attend the social events of the professors' society, because they were too petty bourgeois for them. ... When his eldest son became a member of the military, he could, like everyone else who was authorized to do one-year voluntary service , choose the unit. Wach talked to colleagues in the professor's room and said that it was difficult to choose the right unit. It was said that Friedberg had advised him to join the apocalyptic horsemen or the heavenly hosts for reasons of exclusivity . Wach succeeded in bringing his son to the Dresden guard riders ... "

- Rudolf Mothes : memories

Wach married Elisabeth (called Lili) Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1845–1910), the youngest daughter of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , on March 23, 1870 in Frankfurt (Main) . Wach was a member of the Gewandhaus concert directorate and initiated a memorial for his father-in-law in front of the main entrance of the Gewandhaus. His son Hugo Wach became an architect, Felix Wach is the father of the religious scholar Joachim Wach .

Wach regularly spent his summer holidays in Wilderswil in the canton of Bern , where he bought a piece of land in the Ried in 1880 and had three houses built. He later settled there and became an honorary citizen of Wilderswil. The common grave of Lili and Adolf Wach is there in the Gsteig cemetery near Interlaken .

Works

  • The arrest process in its historical development. Part 1: The Italian Arrest Trial . Leipzig 1868.
    (Wach did not continue working on his habilitation topic as planned, but had his student Guido Kisch conduct an investigation into the German arrest process for his habilitation in 1914. A reprint was published by Scientia-Verlag, Aalen 1973, ISBN 3-511- 10087-9 .)
  • Handbook of German civil procedure law . 1885.
  • Structure of the criminal process . 1914.

literature

  • Dagmar Unger: Adolf Wach (1843–1926) and the liberal civil procedure law . Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11482-5 .
  • Gerold Schmidt: In memory of the great procedural lawyer Adolf Wach (1843–1926). In: Zeitschrift für Zivilprocess (ZZP), 100th (anniversary) vol. 1987, pp. 3-10.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Elsheimer (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members. Edition 1925/26. Frankfurt am Main 1925/26, p. 482.
  2. ↑ Rudolf Mothes: Memoirs of a Leipzig Jurist, Part A, p. 141 ff., Archive of the City of Leipzig, quoted. according to the website of Klaus Schmiedel, PDF ( memento from March 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 2, 2010.
  3. ↑ Felix Gustav Adolf Wach (born April 19, 1871 in Frankfurt am Main) attended the Royal High School in Leipzig from 1880 to 1889 , which he left with the school leaving certificate. Compare: König Albert-Gymnasium (Royal High School until 1900) in Leipzig: Student album 1880–1904 / 05. Friedrich Grober, Leipzig 1905.

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personal data
SURNAME Wake up, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Awake, Adolf Eduard Ludwig Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Culm on the Vistula, today Chełmno
DATE OF DEATH April 4, 1926
Place of death Leipzig