Ernst Meyer-Lüerßen

Ernst Meyer-Lüerßen , also Meyer-Lüerssen and in the ranking of the Royal Prussian Army and the XIII. (Royal Württemberg) Army Corps only Lüerssen (* May 12, 1870 in Elsfleth ; † December 29, 1940 in Lübeck ) was a German lawyer , politician and envoy to the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

Life

origin

Meyer-Lüerßen was born in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg as the son of a captain .

career

He attended grammar school in Oldenburg until he graduated from high school in Easter 1888 and then studied law in Würzburg , Vienna , Berlin and Kiel .

After his doctorate in 1893 , Meyer-Lüerßen was taken on as a trainee lawyer in Hamburg in 1894 . Since 1897 he was assessor there . As an assessor he was given leave to study the civil code in Berlin in 1898 . At the same time as the Civil Code came into force, he became a local judge on January 1, 1900 .

In addition to Hamburg, Meyer-Lüerßen gave lectures on the new civil law in Lübeck legal circles . As a result, he also gained personal relationships with Lübeck, became an assistant judge at the regional court there in 1901 and transferred to the Lübeck judicial service on December 1, 1901. Since 1904 he worked as a district judge. He was appointed regional judge in 1908 and regional court director in 1911 . He resigned from this office on April 1, 1920.

Since 1907 Meyer-Lüerßen was a member of the Lübeck citizenship and from 1908, in regular rotation , in the citizens' committee . He was the chairman of important commissions such as the incorporation commission , the one concerning the replacement law or the joint commission for the establishment of the overland headquarters. He was also chairman of the St. Jürgen Association and on the board of the Reich Association.

From the beginning of his activity in Lübeck, Meyer-Lüerßen always kept in close contact with trade and shipping . He was its chairman since 1903.

Meyer-Lüerßen was a member of the National Liberal Party and led the merger into the Democratic Party (DVP) in the Hanseatic city and since then has belonged to the democratic parliamentary group in the citizenry.

At the beginning of World War I , the one-year-old volunteer reserve officer was a captain in the “Lübeck” Landsturm Battalion . At this time he was the holder of the Knight's Cross 1st Class of the House and Merit Order of Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig and the Landwehr Service Award 1st Class. First he took part in the war as an adjutant , then as a company commander in the battalion . It followed more than three years in the administrative act . First in the General Government of Belgium , then in the eastern part of Lithuania, economically and practically in a managerial position.

After the decision to dissolve the Hanseatic Legation in Berlin, the Lübeck Senate dispatched District Court Director Meyer-Lüerßen to Berlin in 1919 as the city's extraordinary envoy. On April 1, 1920, the Senate appointed him representative of the Lübeck State in Berlin . With this he became Lübeck's authorized minister and deputy member of the Reichsrat .

In 1932 the lawyer took his temporary retirement . When he also resigned from his post as Lübeck envoy in 1933, followed by Werner Daitz ( NSDAP ), Meyer-Lüerßen was given final retirement .

Fonts

The legal position of the authorized representatives to the Reichsrat with special consideration of the representatives appointed by the Prussian provincial administrations , Berlin: Carl Heymann, 1924

literature

Tobias C. Bringmann : Handbuch der Diplomatie, 1815–1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission abroad from Metternich to Adenauer . Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 2001, p. 259 .
Gerhard Schneider : Endangering and Loss of Statehood of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck and its Consequences ; Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1986 ISBN 3-7950-0452-7
Joachim Lilla : The Reichsrat: Representation of the German states in the legislation and administration of the Reich 1919-1934 a biographical handbook with the involvement of the Bundesrat Nov. 1918 - Febr. 1919 and the State Committee Feb. - Aug. 1919. Düsseldorf: Droste 2006 ISBN 3 -7700-5279-X , pp. 126-127
Dr. Ernst Meyer-Lüerssen. ; In: Father-city sheets . Year 1919/20, No. 14, edition of April 11, 1920, p. 53.

Web links

Commons : Ernst Meyer-Lüerßen - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Ernst Meyer-Lüerßen in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic

Remarks

↑ The assistant judge was a judge assigned by the judicial administration to a court for temporary employment and not yet appointed judge for life.
^ The overland headquarters was an electricity supply company.
↑ The reform of the Reich in 1919/20 was intended to re-regulate the relationship between the Reich and the states and make it necessary for the Hanseatic city to have its own representation in the Reich during the Weimar Republic . Under the National Socialists, Lübeck was to lose its statehood on April 1, 1937 as a result of the Greater Hamburg Act .

personal data
SURNAME	Meyer-Lüerßen, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Meyer-Lüerßen, Ernst August (full name); Meyer-Lüerssen, Ernst; Lüerssen, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer, politician and envoy for the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
DATE OF BIRTH	May 12, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH	Elsfleth
DATE OF DEATH	December 29, 1940
Place of death	Lübeck

[1] The assistant judge was a judge assigned by the judicial administration to a court for temporary employment and not yet appointed judge for life.

[2] The overland headquarters was an electricity supply company.

[3] The reform of the Reich in 1919/20 was intended to re-regulate the relationship between the Reich and the states and make it necessary for the Hanseatic city to have its own representation in the Reich during the Weimar Republic . Under the National Socialists, Lübeck was to lose its statehood on April 1, 1937 as a result of the Greater Hamburg Act .