August Wendt

This article deals with the lawyer August Wendt. For the clergy see August Joachim Wendt .

August Wendt (born June 4, 1861 in Hamm ; † May 15, 1927 in Karlsruhe ) was a German lawyer . From 1888 he was in the Baden state service and was an official director, comparable to a current district administrator .

family

August Wendt was the son of Gustav Wendt (born January 24, 1824 in Berlin ; † March 6, 1912 in Karlsruhe), from 1857 to 1867 director of the grammar school in Hamm and from 1867 in Karlsruhe , and Anna née Dohrn (born August 6 1831 in Berlin; † November 1, 1892 in Karlsruhe). On June 21, 1892 he married Klara née Stoesser, daughter of Max Stoesser, Privy Councilor in Freiburg, and Helene née Flad. Wendt was married to Johanna born Eisenhardt (born September 12, 1878 in Greiz ; † September 12, 1963 in Geisenheim ), daughter of Julius Eisenhardt , in his second marriage since March 31, 1906 . The son Gustav (born December 9, 1891) was born from the first marriage and the following children from the second marriage: Marianne (born February 23, 1907 in Wertheim ) and Karla (born October 6, 1913 in Karlsruhe).

education

After attending grammar school in Karlsruhe from 1870 to 1880, he began studying law at the University of Freiburg in the winter semester of 1880/81 , moved to the University of Munich in the winter semester of 1881/82 and to the University of Berlin in the winter semester of 1882/83 . From the summer semester, Wendt studied at the University of Heidelberg , where he graduated in 1884. After the first state examination , he became a legal intern on December 17, 1884 and continued his training as a trainee at the Karlsruhe District Court . Further stations of his training were: District Court Radolfzell , Regional Court Karlsruhe , Public Prosecutor's Office Karlsruhe , District Office Waldkirch , District Office Ettlingen etc. He passed the second state examination on June 18, 1888 with the grade sufficiently successful.

career

• July 1888 holiday replacement at the Pfullendorf district office
• September 23, 1888 assistant at the Tauberbischofsheim district office
• April 1 to May 1, 1889 clerk at the Eberbach district office
• August 12, 1889 assistant at the Sinsheim district office
• July 28, 1890 assistant at the Kehl district office , between March 22 and April 22, 1891 service administrator at the Waldkirch district office
• May 5, 1891 clerk at the Baden District Office and from October 1, 1891 at the Freiburg District Office
• December 12, 1891 to June 1892 service administrator at the Staufen district office
• June 6, 1892 bailiff at the Offenburg district office
• August 19, 1896 Chief Administrator at the Buchen District Office
• December 10, 1900 Chief Administrator at the Schwetzingen District Office
• April 24, 1905 Senior Administrator at the Wertheim District Office
• November 15, 1909 Senior Administrator at the Ettlingen District Office, where he was appointed Privy Councilor on September 9, 1910
• October 23, 1919 second official at the Karlsruhe district office
• on April 1, 1924 in temporary and from September 30, 1926 in permanent retirement

Awards

• 1905 Knight's Cross 1st Class of the Zähringer Lion Order
• 1909 Prussian Crown Order, 3rd class
• 1916 Baden War Merit Cross
• 1918 Prussian Cross of Merit for War Aid
• Baden anniversary medal

literature

• Bernd Breitkopf: The old districts and their heads of office. The emergence of the districts and offices in what is today the district of Karlsruhe. Biographies of the senior officials and district administrators from 1803 to 1997 . Regional culture publisher, Ubstadt-Weiher 1997, ISBN 3-929366-48-7 , pp. 184-185.