Felix Awake

Felix Gustav Adolf Wach (born April 19, 1871 in Frankfurt am Main ; † August 21, 1943 in Dresden ) was a German lawyer and Saxon administrative officer.

Life

Wach was the son of the legal scholar Adolf Wach and grandson of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy . In 1897 he married his relative Katharina von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1876–1956), a daughter of the banker Ernst von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy , who was the owner of the Villa Wach from 1912 to 1939 . The marriage resulted in three children, the sons Joachim and Hugo Wach (1899–1970) and the daughter Susanne Heigl (1902–1998), who was imprisoned in 1944 with her mother in the Theresienstadt concentration camp , from which she was ransomed were able to emigrate to Switzerland through Swiss relatives.

Wach studied law and received his doctorate in Leipzig in 1896 with a paper on compulsory comparison . He completed the two-year legal traineeship at the local and regional courts of Rochlitz and Chemnitz , then joined the Saxon state services and moved with his family to Dresden in 1899. From 1902 to 1904 he was legation secretary at the Higher Administrative Court . He became legation councilor in the Foreign Ministry, governor in the Oschatz governorate and president of the state price office.

After the death of his father Adolf in 1926, Wach looked after part of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's estate until his death. The collection has belonged to the Leipzig City History Museum since 1969 , and some of it has been on display in the Mendelssohn House since 1997 .

Fonts

The compulsory comparison. A treatise on civil procedure. Veit & Comp, Leipzig 1896 (selected doctoral dissertations from the Leipzig Faculty of Law). Zugl. Leipzig, Univ., Jur.Diss., 1896.
Kgl. Saxon. Law relating to the organization of the authorities for internal administration of April 21, 1873 together with the related standing laws u. Regulations. Hand issue. Roßberg, Leipzig 1905.

Awards

Wach received the following awards:

Order of Albrecht (Knight's Cross 1st class with war decoration)

War Merit Cross

Order of Merit of Saint Michael (2nd class with star)

literature

Stephan Wendehorst: Building Blocks of a Jewish History of the University of Leipzig . Volume 4 of the Leipzig Contributions to Jewish History and Culture, 2006, ISBN 9783865831064 , pp. 288–289, online .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b according to the marriage certificate of March 6, 1897. Source: "Berlin, Germany, Heiratsregister, 1874-1920", Ancestry.com ( database : visited on January 25, 2018), digital image of the entry for Felix Gustav Adolf Wach from 6 March 1897, No. 127/1897 Berlin I, II; Marriage register of the Berlin registry offices 1874 - 1920, Landesarchiv Berlin, Germany
↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from November 19, 2015 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. PDF file, p. 5. @1@ 2
↑ Max Ferdinand Schneider: The Wach'sche Mendelssohn Collection on the Ried in Wilderswil near Interlaken: a contribution to the history of the estate of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, 1965, p. 25 [1]
↑ Mendelsohn Society , PDF file, p. 10.
↑ Ingrid Lewek; Wolfgang Tarnowski: Jews in Radebeul 1933–1945 . Extended and revised edition. Major district town of Radebeul / City Archives, Radebeul 2008, p. 28 f.
^ Johannes Graul: Jewish heritage and Christian religiosity. Family history as a defining moment in the biography of the religious scholar Joachim Wach (1898-1955). In: Stephan Wendehorst (Ed.): Building blocks of a Jewish history of the University of Leipzig. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2006, p. 288.
↑ Personnel file of the secretary at the Higher Administrative Court, Legation Secretary Dr. jur. Felix Gustav Adolf Wach
↑ Graul, p. 290.
^ Address book Dresden with suburbs, VI. Part Oberlößnitz, 1919, p. 243 ( online ).

personal data
SURNAME	Wake up, Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wach, Felix Gustav Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and Saxon administrative officer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 19, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH	Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH	August 21, 1943
Place of death	Dresden

[heiratsurkunde-1] rding to the marriage certificate of March 6, 1897. Source: "Berlin, Germany, Heiratsregister, 1874-1920", Ancestry.com ( database : visited on January 25, 2018), digital image of the entry for Felix Gustav Adolf Wach from 6 March 1897, No. 127/1897 Berlin I, II; Marriage register of the Berlin registry offices 1874 - 1920, Landesarchiv Berlin, Germany

[2] Archive link ( Memento of the original from November 19, 2015 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. PDF file, p. 5. @1@ 2

[Schneider-3] Max Ferdinand Schneider: The Wach'sche Mendelssohn Collection on the Ried in Wilderswil near Interlaken: a contribution to the history of the estate of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, 1965, p. 25 [1]

[4] Mendelsohn Society , PDF file, p. 10.

[juden_in_radebeul-5] Ingrid Lewek; Wolfgang Tarnowski: Jews in Radebeul 1933–1945 . Extended and revised edition. Major district town of Radebeul / City Archives, Radebeul 2008, p. 28 f.

[6] Johannes Graul: Jewish heritage and Christian religiosity. Family history as a defining moment in the biography of the religious scholar Joachim Wach (1898-1955). In: Stephan Wendehorst (Ed.): Building blocks of a Jewish history of the University of Leipzig. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2006, p. 288.

[7] Personnel file of the secretary at the Higher Administrative Court, Legation Secretary Dr. jur. Felix Gustav Adolf Wach

[8] Graul, p. 290.

[9] Address book Dresden with suburbs, VI. Part Oberlößnitz, 1919, p. 243 ( online ).