Albert Wulff (lawyer)

Albert Siegfried Wulff (born June 28, 1866 in Hamburg , † July 25, 1941 in Montevideo ) was a German lawyer .

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Albert Wulff was a son of Louis Cohen Wulff and his wife Henriette. The father came from Altona , the mother from Hamburg, where Albert Wulff was born. After attending the learned school of the Johanneum , which he left with the Abitur in 1884, he studied law at the Humboldt University in Berlin and at the University of Breslau from 1886 . There he was awarded a doctorate in 1891 with “summa cum laude”. jur. PhD. In his doctoral thesis he dealt with questions of debt collection law. He then went back to his hometown, where he acquired Hamburg citizenship on January 6, 1888 . Together with Hermann Hartwick, he worked here in a newly founded law firm, followed by another law firm with F. Ruppel and his son Walther Wulff.

Wulff was regarded as respected and was also recognized by science. From 1898 to 1902 he wrote Hamburg laws and regulations . It was a legal standard work that for the first time listed the laws of Hamburg in a systematic manner and with comments. In 1935 he received an order from the Jewish community in Hamburg to assess property issues relating to the Grindelfriedhof . Wulff's verdict was negative for the community.

From June 1936 to May 1938 Wulff lived in São Paulo . There he dealt with controversial property claims, in which the German Reich was also involved. Wulff decided to break off his stay in Brazil prematurely in order not to be classified as an emigrant in Germany due to the longer stay abroad. On November 30, the National Socialists forbade Wulff, who was of Jewish origin but had resigned from the Jewish religious association in 1884, from continuing to practice his profession. Together with his wife Clara, née Arnstedt, (* 1874 in Hamburg), his son and his wife, he moved to Montevideo in October 1939. Albert Wulff died there in July 1941.

literature

• Michael Studemund-Halévy : Wulff, Albert . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 4 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0229-7 , pp. 389-390 .