Bernhard Brandis

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The grave of Bernhard Brandis (inscription above right) in the family grave at the old cemetery in Bonn.

Bernhard Friedrich Brandis (born January 15, 1875 in Dehradun , India ; † January 14/15 , 1935 in Leipzig ) was a German lawyer and judge from 1929 to 1935.

Career

He was the son of the botanist and general inspector of the Indian Forestry Office Sir Dietrich Brandis and his wife the painter Katharina , née. Hate, and grew up in India. The family lived in Calcutta and Simla in the summer. His former trainee lawyer Ernst Eduard Hirsch wrote about him that he "never denied in his whole way of life and behavior the upbringing he received as a gentleman in his youth and his training as an all-round scholar."

He received his doctorate in Germany and became a judge in Elberfeld. In 1929 he was appointed Reich judge and was in the III. Civil senate of the Reichsgericht active. He died as a Reich judge in 1935.

Bernhard Brandis was the father of the microbiologist Henning Brandis . He was not related to Ernst Brandis (also a Reich judge).

Individual evidence

  1. German Gender Book , Vol. 205, p. 178, 1997
  2. Ernst E. Hirsch , From the times of the emperor through the Weimar Republic in the land of Ataturk: ​​an untimely autobiography , p. 145, J. Schweitzer, 1982