Adolf Wolfgang Schuster

Adolf Wolfgang Schuster (born June 8, 1919 in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate ; † May 7, 2004 there ) was a German lawyer and local researcher .

Life

School time and military service

Adolf Wolfgang Schuster was the son of an Upper Palatinate postal worker. His ancestors had lived as farmers and craftsmen in the Upper Palatinate for centuries.

Schuster attended elementary and secondary school in Weiden. After graduating from high school in 1937, he worked for the Reich Labor Service on the Waldnaab regulation in Hammerweg Weiden. He was then called up for military service and served until 1939 with the 41st Infantry Regiment in Amberg, with whom he went to war . He was wounded three times on the Eastern Front . Most recently he was a company commander .

Studies, exams and doctorates

In the hospital, Schuster began studying law at the University of Munich and the University of Erlangen . He passed his legal traineeship exam in 1947 and received his doctorate in 1949 on the subject of "Constitutional history of the city of Weiden in the Middle Ages and in the first centuries of modern times". The assessor exam followed in 1951 .

Professional development

From 1951 Schuster worked as a court assessor at the Weiden regional court and the Weiden, Neustadt an der Waldnaab and Tirschenreuth district courts . In 1953 he became a district judge , 1963 first public prosecutor and 1964 district court director. From December 1, 1971 to July 1, 1984 he was President of the Weiden District Court.

Activities and offices as local researcher

From 1949 to 1953, Schuster was deputy chairman of the Upper Palatinate Forest Association . From 1953 to 1956 he was chairman of the Weiden branch and until 1967 chief chairman of the Upper Palatinate Forest Club. In 1966 he initiated the German Hiking Day in Weiden.

Works

Schuster published extensive writings on local history in the Upper Palatinate, which he carefully researched and documented, primarily in the Amberg archive, using certificates and original documents.

• Picture book Oberpfälzer Wald and Steinwald , Weiden, Knauf-Verlag 1967, several editions
• Stadtbuch Weiden , co-editor, 1970
• The jurisdiction in the district of Weiden since 1800
• Franz Xaver von Schönwerth , the researcher and collector of Upper Palatinate customs
• Advent in Bavaria
• Ministerialrat Eduard Ritter von Weiß, a meritorious Weidner railway worker
• Riot in Weiden, an episode from 1609
• Serfdom was not common in the Upper Palatinate
• An Upper Palatinate as a district judge in Merano
• Legal relations between Weiden and Neustadt an der Waldnaab in the Middle Ages
• Legal relationships between Weiden and Nuremberg
• Gustav Schlör , the last Bavarian trade minister
• The Schellenberg Castle in Upper Palatinate Forest
• 1000 years of Floss : for the 1976 local festival of the Floss market in the Upper Palatinate Forest. Floss: Market town of Floss 1976
• The presidents of the Weiden regional court in the Upper Palatinate since 1879: a contribution to the history of the Upper Palatinate authority organization, at the same time a sociological study , Weiden id OPf .: Schuster 1984
• The Eger City Forest - A Legal Treatise by Dr. Adolf Wolfgang Schuster. Verlag Lassleben, Kallmünz 1985
• Anecdotes about a Bavarian district court president, self-published in 1986
• The history of the community of Flossenbürg. Volumes I and II, Weiden: Sprintler Druck u. Publisher 1990
• 900 years of the Pirk community . Municipality of Pirk 1993
• Justitia smiles: Anecdotes about two Bavarian district court presidents , Weiden: Buch- und Kunstverl. Upper Palatinate 1994, ISBN 3-924350-36-1

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary at Oberpfalznetz.de from May 10, 2004
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Adolf Wolfgang Schuster: 1000 Years of Floss , 1976, Verlag Marktgemeinde Floss, pp. 549, 551
3. ↑ Adolf Wolfgang Schuster: History of the community Flossenbürg , ed. Municipality Flossenbürg, Spintler Druck und Verlag GmbH, Weiden 1990, p. 150.