Eugene Moufang

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Eugen Moufang (born January 7, 1889 in Heidelberg Grand Duchy of Baden ; † April 15, 1967 Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany ) was a German lawyer, established lawyer and holder of the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class .

Life

family

Eugenie Stutzmann, b. Boyssel, grandmother of Eugen Moufang and his brothers, rests with her husband Friedrich Stutzmann in the family grave of the Heidelberg mountain cemetery in Professoren Reihe (Dept. D), here his brother the writer Wilhelm Moufang and his wife the painter Minnie Moufang also rest
Tomb of the grandparents of the Moufang brothers, Friedrich Stutzmann ∞ Eugenie Stutzmann née Boyssel, on the Heidelberg Bergfriedhof (Dept. D), in the professors' row
The grave of Eugen Moufang's parents, erected in 1906 on the occasion of the death of their son Fritz Moufang (1887–1906), who died young. His mother Julie Moufang, b. Stutzmann and his father Wilhelm Moufang buried in 1942, in 1967 the eldest brother Nicola found his final resting place in this family grave, Heidelberg Bergfriedhof (Dept. D)
Adam Franz Lennig (1803–1866), Vicar General and Cathedral Dean of the Diocese of Mainz , great-great-uncle, photo from Die Katholische Welt , annual volume 1896
Christoph Moufang (1817–1890), great-uncle of the Heidelberg Moufang brothers, diocesan administrator of the Mainz diocese, Regens of the Mainz seminary, which was newly founded in 1805

Eugen Moufang was the third eldest son of Wilhelm Moufang senior, who holds a doctorate in law and has his own law firm, (* January 6, 1852 in Mainz ; † January 30, 1942 in Heidelberg ) and his wife Julie Moufang, née. Stutzmann (born February 14, 1857 in Wiesbaden-Biebrich ; † September 29, 1938 in Heidelberg). Wilhelm Moufang senior came from a strictly Catholic Mainz family, whose members also include theologians Adam Franz Lennig , Christoph Moufang and Edmund Georg Nicolaus Hardy . Wilhelm Moufang senior's sister, Wilhelmine Katharina Moufang, was married to Nicola Racke . All Moufangs were loyal supporters of the German Center Party and later the CDU .

Eugen Moufang had four brothers: Nicola Moufang (* May 30, 1886 in Heidelberg; † April 11, 1967 ibid), Fritz Moufang (* October 5, 1887 in Heidelberg; † March 10, 1906 ibid), Franz Moufang (* 19th April 1967), April 1893 in Heidelberg; † May 29, 1984 ibid), Wilhelm Moufang (born October 4, 1895 in Heidelberg; † January 21, 1989 Neckargemünd ).

Eugen Moufang was married to Mabel Moufang, b. Beck, widowed Wellensiek. She brought the daughter Inge Wellensiek and the son Jobst Wellensiek into the marriage.

Study and dissertation

All Moufang brothers followed their father’s wish and began studying law. All four, including the fifth brother Fritz, who was still living at the time, were graduates of the Kurfürst-Friedrich-Gymnasium Heidelberg, which they left with excellent high school diplomas. Eugen Moufang passed his matriculation examination at the Kurfürst-Friedrich-Gymnasium in 1907.

Eugen Moufang then studied in Heidelberg at the Ruperto Carola , at the Humboldt University of Berlin , at the University of Oxford and at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg , Eugen Moufang spent several semesters in Freiburg, where he spent this time in his house Aunt Anna Maria Probst, b. Moufang, a sister of his father Wilhelm Moufang senior, lived. Eugen Moufang is the only one of the sons of Wilhelm Moufang senior who practiced the legal profession until his retirement. He was with his inaugural dissertation , The contestation of a last will according to § 2078 BGB. and its effect , to obtain the legal doctorate of the high legal faculty at the Grand Ducal Badische Ruprecht-Karls-Universität in Heidelberg in 1914 for Dr. jur. PhD.

First World War - assessor examination - entry into his father's office

In terms of world politics, the July crisis in 1914, on August 1, 1914, was followed by mobilization and the beginning of the First World War . The German Empire had declared war on Russia. In the same year, Eugen Moufang moved to Karlsruhe as a volunteer for the 1st Baden Leib-Dragoon Regiment No. 20 . He served until the end of the war in 1918 and left active service after demobilization with the rank of lieutenant in the reserve .

After his assessor exam in 1919, Eugen Moufang practiced with his father and for a limited period also with his brother Franz in his father's office, whose address is now “Drs. Moufang, Moufang and Moufang ”read. At that time, the office was still in Heidelberg's old town, at Hauptstrasse 221, in the former Nadler house . After that, the Moufang law firm continued to operate at Hauptstrasse 92 for a long time before moving to the western part of Heidelberg. Today the law firm is located in an important Art Nouveau ensemble in the west of Heidelberg with its headquarters. It was successfully continued by Eugen Moufang's stepson Jobst Wellensiek as a partner company with nationwide branches until 2011.

Second World War - Presentation order - US forces liberate Heidelberg

With the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, the brothers Eugen and Franz Moufang, now at the age of 52 and 46, received a draft order and also served in the Second World War until the end of the war, the surrender in 1945. Eugen Moufang left active service in rank of a major in the reserve, awarded the German Cross in Silver and the War Merit Cross (1939) 1st Class with Swords.

The US Army liberated Heidelberg on March 30, 1945 . “ The Neckar-Enz position came within range of the front when American troops on 22/23. On March 25th they crossed the Rhine near Oppenheim and were able to quickly expand their bridgehead : On March 25th they took Darmstadt , crossed the Wetterau-Main-Tauber position near Aschaffenburg and fell into the rear of the Neckar-Enz position. The German leadership initially planned to build a new line of defense along the expanded positions, using the Neckar-Enz position and the Odenwald – Miltenberg barrier line. On March 30, Heidelberg fell into American hands. “The city was spared a bombing raid and became the headquarters of the US armed forces. After the collapse of the German Reich and the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht , Eugen Moufang devoted all his energy to rebuilding his homeland from May 1945.

Re-establishment of the legal system after the unconditional surrender in 1945

Moufang made significant contributions that paved the way for the reestablishment of a democratic understanding of the law and the legal system , and enabled the rebuilding of the professional organization, the bar association , under the American occupation . From autumn 1945 lawyers could practice freely again on a democratic legal basis . Moufang himself worked from then on as a resident lawyer until old age, when his poor health ordered him to withdraw. Eugen Moufang held the office of chairman of the Heidelberg Lawyers' Association for 15 years and was on the board of the North Baden Bar Association for 15 years. Moufang resigned both offices in 1960 and from then on left the Moufang law firm to his stepson Jobst Wellensiek.

On his 70th birthday in 1959, Eugen Moufang was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1st Class by Federal President Theodor Heuss in recognition of his extraordinary achievements in rebuilding the Bar Association in Baden-Württemberg .

The golden doctoral degree - honoring in later years

Another great honor was given to Eugen Moufang five years later. Already largely tied to his house through an ailment, Moufang was given a golden doctoral degree in the family circle in his house on Scheffelstrasse on January 7, 1964, his 75th birthday, by Ruperto Carola, his alma mater , represented by its rector presented.

In the spring of 1967 Nicola and Eugen Moufang, the two eldest of the four Moufang brothers who were still alive, died. Nicola died on April 11, 1967 and only four days later, on April 15, in the night from Saturday to Sunday, his brother Eugen followed him.

Wellensiek family burial site

Eugen Moufang rests in the main cemetery in Mannheim in the Wellensiek family grave. Eugen Moufang's maternal grandparents, Friedrich Stutzmann ∞ Eugenie Stutzmann, née Eugenie Stutzmann, rest in the so-called row of professors in Dept. D of the Heidelberg Bergfriedhof . Boyssel, his French great-grandfather Pierre Boyssel, born in Toulouse, died at the age of 85 on April 5, 1861 in Heidelberg, his brother Wilhelm Moufang with his wife Minnie Moufang nee. Andreä, his great aunt Marie Stutzmann and the daughter from Minnie Moufang's first marriage, Barbara Kempe b. Schmehl.

The parents of the Moufang brothers Wilhelm Moufang senior and Julie Moufang, née Moufang, rest in the family grave in Dept. of the Heidelberg Bergfriedhof, below the row of professors. Stutzmann and her son Fritz, who died early from appendicitis at the age of 20. Eugen Moufang's eldest brother, Nicola, and his wife Eva Moufang, nee. Cheese.

Probst Eugen Moufang's brother Franz and his first wife Margret Moufang, nee, rest in the family grave not far from the parents' grave . Joeres and his aunt Marie Probst. The life dates of Franz Moufang's second wife are carved on the tombstone.

The Edwin Scharff Museum in Neu-Ulm received two bronze sculptures from Eugen Moufang's parents as a donation. A bust of Wilhelm Moufang senior and a high relief tondo of his wife Julie Moufang née Stutzmann from around 1920, created by Edwin Scharff .

Eugen Moufang's great-nephews are Alexis Grammatidis, a doctor of dentistry and orthodontist , the composer and sound artist David Moufang and Gabriel Grammatidis, a business graduate, system developer and international speaker .

Awards

Fonts

  • The contestation of a testamentary disposition according to § 2078 BGB. and their effect . Poeschel & Trepte. Leipzig, year of publication 1914. Size / Format 64 S. Hochschulschrift Heidelberg. Jur. Diss., 1914.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mainz church books / family book
  2. ↑ www.regionalgeschichte.net
  3. ↑ Edmund Hardy ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / bsbndb.bsb.lrz-muenchen.de
  4. ↑ BIORAB Empire online. Alphabet: Racke, Josef Adolf Nicola Archive link ( Memento of the original from November 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / zhsf.gesis.org
  5. ↑ Document death notice published in the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung on January 28, 1989, advertised by the widow Minnie Moufang and her daughter Barbara Kempe, document Heidelberg City Archives, ZGS 2 155
  6. ↑ Municipal Archives Heidelberg, ZGS 2/155, Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung , Feuilleton of 7 January 1964 article: "Eugen Moufag 75 years, handing the diploma to the golden jubilee Doctor"
  7. ↑ Heidelberg City Archives, ZGS 2/155, Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, features of April 18, 1967, article: “Nicola and Eugen Moufang †. A few days after Nicola, Eugen Moufang died in the night from Saturday to Sunday "
  8. ^ Heidelberg City Archives, ZGS 2/155, Heidelberger Tageblatt , features dated April 18, 1967, article: "Attorney Dr. Eugen Moufang, torn from the family a few days after the death of his eldest brother "
  9. ↑ Edwin Scharff Museum website
  10. ↑ a b Heidelberg City Archives, Franz Moufang family records
  11. ^ Heidelberg City Archives, Feuerlein family association, Conradi tribe
  12. ↑ Eugen Moufang at ww2awards.com, accessed on September 10, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Moufang, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and established lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1967
Place of death Heidelberg