Eduard Boeckers

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Eduard Boeckers (1914)

Eduard Boeckers (* 1863 in Prummern ; † 28. January 1941 in Detmold ) was a German judge and politician ( NLP ).

Life

Boeckers was the son of a Lippe landowner. He attended the Leopoldinum Gymnasium in Detmold and passed his Abitur there in 1882. He then studied law in Tübingen and Berlin. After the first state examination, he did his legal clerkship at the Detmold District Court and passed the assessor examination in 1890. In 1893 he became a local judge at the Salzuflen district court and in 1903 he moved to the Detmold district court as district judge. In the First World War he did military service from 1914 to 1918. Most recently he was a captain and battalion commander in the Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 15. After the war he returned to the Detmold District Court where he later rose to become director.

From 1918 to 1941 he was administrator and curator of the Clostermeier Foundation .

politics

Boeckers represented liberal positions and was a member of the NLP. In the state elections in Lippe in 1913 , he was elected to the state parliament in 1st class (B). In Lippe at that time the three-class voting system applied . The first class comprised the largest taxpayers, for subgroup B an income tax of 180 marks was required. Boeckers was a member of the state parliament until the November Revolution of 1918.

literature

  • Karl Flemming and Hanns-Peter Fink: The Clostermeier Foundation ; in: Lippische Mitteilungen aus Geschichte und Landeskunde , 1999, p. 97, digitized
  • Erich Kittel: The revolution of 1918 in Lippe ; in: Lippische Mitteilungen aus Geschichte und Landeskunde , 1968, p. 199 ff., digitized