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Anton Ernst Biesten (born April 21, 1884 in Niederlahnstein ; † September 12, 1953 in Offenbach-Hundheim ) was a German lawyer .
Career
Biesten was a court trainee from 1907 and received his doctorate in 1909 at the University of Heidelberg . From 1914 on he was employed as an administrative lawyer at the Koblenz city administration , where he was most recently an alderman. In 1930 he was appointed police chief in Koblenz. Shortly after the National Socialists came to power in February 1933, he went into temporary retirement and was released in 1934. After the end of the Second World War, he took over the office of police chief again on June 15, 1945 and, as part of the denazification , he became chairman of the clean-up commission in Koblenz. On August 1, 1946, Biesten was appointed President of the newly created Regional Administrative Court (today the Higher Administrative Court ) in Koblenz from Wilhelm Boden . Together with Adolf Süsterhenn he worked on the state constitution for Rhineland-Palatinate . After the state constitution came into force on May 18, 1947, Biesten was appointed first chairman of the Constitutional Court of Rhineland-Palatinate . Furthermore, after an initiative by Claude Hettier de Boislambert in June 1946 , Biesten was entrusted with the construction and organization of the Rheinische Verwaltungsschule at the Reichsburg in Cochem , which was closed again after the third course in 1948. In 1951 he retired at the age of 67. After his death in 1953, he found his final resting place in the main cemetery in Koblenz.
Honors
- 1953: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Publications
literature
- Joachim Hennig: Dr. Ernst Biesten (1884-1953): Democrat in four eras. - Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang, 1996
Web links
- Ernst Biesten at the Koblenz Memorial
- Entry on Ernst Biesten in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Photo by Dr. Serious beasts
- ↑ Award certificate to the President of the State Administrative Court i. R. Dr. Ernst Biesen, Bonn, May 18, 1953
Ernst Biesten (1947–1951) | Adolf Süsterhenn (1951–1961) | Gerhard Meyer-Hentschel (1961–1976) | Heribert Bickel (1976-1983) | Jürgen Piwowarsky (1983–1996) | Karl-Friedrich Meyer (1996–2012) | Lars Brocker (since 2012)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beasts, Ernst |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Biesten, Anton Ernst (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Niederlahnstein |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 12, 1953 |
| Place of death | Offenbach-Hundheim |