Georg Claussen (lawyer)

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Friedrich Georg Heinrich Claussen , also Claussen , (born October 1, 1819 in Wardenburg , † August 11, 1898 in Lübeck ) was a German lawyer, Oldenburg deputy and district court director in Lübeck.

Life

Georg Claussen came from an Oldenburg pastor family; he was a son of the Wardenburg pastor and later secret senior church councilor Adolf Martin Claußen (1782-1858) and his wife Magdalene Dorothee Christiane Auguste, born. Oetken (1790-1858). He studied law at the University of Leipzig , where he also became a member of the Leipzig Burschenschaft Kochei (today's Leipzig Burschenschaft Germania ) in 1841 . In 1845 he entered the service of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg . He was first an official auditor at the Friesoythe office, from 1847 at the Berne office , and then secretary of the law firm in Oldenburg (Oldb) . In 1849 he was a member of the Oldenburg State Parliament . From 1852 he was a judge at the Oldenburg Regional Court. From 1858 to 1865 he worked for the Oldenburg public prosecutor.

In 1872 he was director of the Grand Ducal High Court in Varel . When the Reich Justice Laws were introduced , the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg and the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck signed a contract on a joint regional court in September 1878 , the district of which included the Lübeck state territory and the Principality of Lübeck , which belonged to Oldenburg . Oldenburg received the right to appoint the director and appointed Georg Claussen as the first director of the new regional court. At the same time he was a member of the Oldenburg State Court .

In June 1895 he celebrated his fiftieth anniversary of service. On this occasion, the Lübeck Senate honored him with the bestowal of its highest honor, the Bene Merenti commemorative coin , and the Grand Duke of Oldenburg with the Commander's Cross in diamonds of the Oldenburg House and Merit Order .

Awards

Knight's Cross 2nd Class 1878
Knight's Cross 1st Class 1882
Honorary Commander's Cross 1888
Commander's cross with diamonds 1895

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Albrecht Eckhardt: From the bourgeois revolution to the National Socialist takeover of power: the Oldenburg Landtag and its representatives 1848-1933. (Oldenburg Research 1) Oldenburg: Isensee 1996 ISBN 9783895983276 , p. 91
  2. ^ Agreement between Oldenburg and Lübeck on the establishment of a joint regional court for the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck and the Grand Ducal Oldenburg Principality of Lübeck. From 29./30. September 1878. In: Yearbook of the German Constitutional Court in 1880, pp 317 -322
  3. Lübeckische Blätter 37 (1895), p. 332