August Hampe
Ludwig August Emil Hampe (born April 20, 1866 in Holzminden ; † February 6, 1945 there ) was a German lawyer. As a supporter of the Guelphs , he was involved in the Braunschweigisch-Lower Saxony party (BNP). He was Minister of Justice of the Free State of Braunschweig .
Life and work
August Hampe was the son of a higher court attorney and the grandson of the President of the Estates Assembly Karl Steinacker († 1847). Before he went to a grammar school in Sangerhausen in 1884 , he grew up in Holzminden. After graduating from high school, Hampe studied law at the Georg August University of Göttingen from 1885 . In 1886 he was reciprocated in the Corps Brunsviga Göttingen . As an inactive he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin .
Judge in the Duchy of Braunschweig
After he had passed both state exams in 1889 and 1892 , he joined the judicial service of the Duchy of Braunschweig as a court assessor . In 1889 Hampe was appointed district judge in Walkenried in the Harz Mountains , but was transferred to the Braunschweig district court as early as 1900. In 1901 he worked as a district judge at the Braunschweig district court. In 1907 he became a higher regional judge . From 1908 Hampe was a member of the legal examination commission and from 1909 of the Administrative Court, of which he was appointed deputy chairman in 1913. In 1910 he became a member of the Braunschweig Competence Court . During the First World War , Hampe served on the staff of the East Frisian Coast Guard. From the end of 1920 until his retirement on July 31, 1931, Hampe was Senate President at the Braunschweig Higher Regional Court .
August Hampe published a large number of legal papers and was Adolf Dedekind's successor as a lecturer at the Technical University of Braunschweig from 1905 . From 1909 to 1919 he was also, again as Adolf Dedekind's successor, editor of the “ Zeitschrift für Rechtspflege im Duchy Braunschweig ”.
Politician in the Free State of Braunschweig
After the end of the First World War and the resulting November Revolution , which also brought extensive social, economic and political changes in Braunschweig, Hampe joined the patriotic movement in the state of Braunschweig, which campaigned for the rights and in particular for the return of the November 1918, in the course of the November Revolution in Braunschweig, the Braunschweig ducal house that had abdicated. For this purpose, Hampe founded the "Brunonia" association together with like-minded people. Because of his openly pro-Welf commitment, his political opponents regarded him as reactionary.
Since 1918 he was on the list of the Braunschweigisches Landeswahlverband , a joint nomination by DVP , DNVP , Economic Unit List and the Braunschweigisch-Lower Saxony Party (BNP) founded by him in 1918 , of which he was chairman for many years. In 1919/20 he was a member of the Weimar National Assembly , also elected to the list of the regional electoral association, where he joined the DNVP parliamentary group as an intern, but nevertheless cooperated closely with the members of the German-Hanoverian party.
From May 1924 to 1928 he was a member of the Reichstag . In the Reichstag elections of 1924 (May and December), the BNP in the constituency of southern Hanover-Braunschweig entered into a list connection with the DHP, through which Hampe was then elected.
In 1919 Hampe was elected to the Braunschweig Landtag , of which he was a member until 1925. Under Prime Minister Heinrich Jasper ( SPD ) he was Minister of Justice of the Free State of Braunschweig from September 5, 1919 to April 21, 1920.
literature
- Hampe, August. In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , p. 650.
- Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , pp. 138-139.
- Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 .
Web links
- August Hampe in the database of members of the Reichstag
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 40/682
- ↑ The Free State of Braunschweig - The state governments 1918–1933 on gonschior.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hampe, August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hampe, Ludwig August Emil (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and politician (BNP), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 20, 1866 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Holzminden |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 6, 1945 |
| Place of death | Holzminden |