Carl Wolpers

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Georg Carl August Wolpers (born August 25, 1875 in Linden ; † May 25, 1962 in Remscheid-Lennep ) was a German notary and the only president of the Reich Chamber of Notaries from 1934 to 1945.

Life

Wolpers attended the Andreanum grammar school in Hildesheim and studied law at the universities of Geneva , Göttingen and Berlin . In 1897 he became a member of the Corps Bremensia Göttingen . After passing the state examination, he first joined the Prussian municipal administration and worked in Peine and Düsseldorf . Wolpers was appointed a notary in Kirchberg (Hunsrück) in 1909 . From 1915 to 1918 he took part in the First World War. After his return, in the course of the French occupation of the Rhineland , he was briefly arrested by the French. This prompted him to apply as a precaution for a vacant notary post in Lennep , where he was assigned the official post in 1920. With the interruption from 1945 to 1950, he held the position of notary there until his retirement in 1953.

Carl Wolpers became a member of the board of directors of the Rheinischer Notarverein in 1930. In 1932 he became a member of the Grand Service Penal Senate at the Court of Appeal and the NSDAP ( membership number 1.072.436). In 1933 he became chairman of both the Rheinischer Notarverein and the German Notarverein in Berlin. At the beginning of 1934 he was appointed by Hans Frank as head of the legal department of the NSDAP in the Reich leadership of the NSDAP . From November 1934 to 1945 he was President of the Reich Chamber of Notaries, which was newly created in the course of the harmonization of the federal states, their judiciary and thus also the notary's office, and as such was decisively involved in the amendments to the Reich Fees Ordinance of November 25, 1935 and the Reich Notaries Ordinance of February 13, 1937. He was a staunch advocate of the Nurnotariat. At the end of January 1940 he was made an honorary SS-Standartenführer (SS-No. 351.097). In the course of his denazification in 1948 he was classified in the second instance in category IV as a fellow traveler without property restrictions and was able to exercise his notarial office in Lennep again from the beginning of 1950.

Honors

literature

  • Heinz Jenckel: Justizrat Carl Wolpers Bremensiae † in Deutsche Corpszeitung , 1962 issue 4, p. 183
  • Werner Schubert: Materials for the standardization of notarial law (1872–1937): Drafts for imperial notary regulations by Friedrich Adolf Ferdinand Kurlbaum (1872), Eduard Graf (1876) and Hermann Oberneck (1930) as well as sources for imperial notarial regulations from 1937 , Otto Schmidt Verlag , 2004
  • Johannes Gsänger: Carl Wolpers - a Rhenish notary in: Notar - Monthly for the entire notarial practice , 2011 Issue 1, pp. 3–11 (digital copy ) (PDF; 2.8 MB)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910 , 63 , 1005.
  2. ↑ RGBl. I p. 1371.
  3. ↑ RGBl. I p. 191.
personal data
SURNAME Wolpers, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolpers, Georg Carl August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German notary
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1962
Place of death Remscheid