Edmund Natter

Edmund Natter (born November 20, 1877 in Stuttgart , † November 17, 1971 there ) was a German lawyer.

Career

Natter was born the son of the court notary Karl Natter. He first attended the Latin schools in Geislingen and Göppingen, where he became a school friend of the writer Hermann Hesse , for whom he later also worked. He then attended the Protestant theological seminars in Schönthal and Urach and from 1892 to 1896 at the Protestant theological monastery in Tübingen.

After a year as a volunteer in Tübingen, he studied law at the universities of Tübingen and Leipzig between 1897 and 1904 . After the assessor exam, he was admitted to the bar in April 1905 at the Stuttgart Regional Court and Higher Regional Court . During the time of National Socialism, he acted as legal advisor to the Württemberg Evangelical Church in its disputes with the rulers and, after the end of the war, helped to rebuild a constitutional community. In 1949 he became a member of the State Court of Württemberg-Baden .

In addition to his significant, predominantly civil law practice, he published scientifically. In 1907 he was co-founder and until 1933 co-editor of the Württembergische Zeitspflege und Verwaltung , in addition to which he was a permanent employee of the legal journal and the German legal journal .

From 1907 to 1934 he trained legal trainees in civil law, criminal law and voluntary jurisdiction. Between 1919 and 1925 he taught state courses for middle administrative officials. He was also a member of a number of supervisory boards in large industrial companies.

Honors

• 1952: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• Honorary Senator of the University of Tübingen
• 1964: Award of the title of professor by the state government of Baden-Württemberg

literature

• Karl Ritter von Klimesch (ed.): Heads of politics, economy, art and science. 1953.
• Edmund Natter 75 years old. In: Legal journal. Vol. 7, No. 22/1952, p. 701.
• Richard Schmid: Edmund Natter †. In: Legal journal. Vol. 27, No. 5/6/1972, p. 179.