Georg Arnold Bacmeister

Georg Arnold Adolph Christian Constanz Bacmeister (born June 20, 1850 in Hanover , † September 30, 1921 in Bad Sachsa ) was a German judge at the Neuwied Regional Court .

Life

Coming from the well-known Bacmeister family in Lower Saxony , the son of the multiple minister in the Kingdom of Hanover , Georg Heinrich Bacmeister , and Charlotte Kritter (1814-1884), after leaving school for health reasons, retired from military service and thus also from participating in the Franco-German War in 1870 / 71 optional. This enabled him to start studying law in 1870 , which he began at the University of Munich and then completed at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Göttingen . After passing his legal examination in 1873, Bacmeister was taken on as a court trainee first in Hameln , then in Northeim and Hildesheim . Here he passed his state examination in January 1878 and immediately got a job with the public prosecutor in Lüneburg .

In 1879 Bacmeister was appointed to Geestemünde as a magistrate , but was transferred to Göttingen as a district judge at the request of his father as early as 1884 . Two years later he was promoted to district court director and also took on a part-time role as a university judge at Georgia Augusta. In 1906, Bacmeister followed a call to the district court in Neuwied, where he worked as district court president until 1920 and was appointed to the secret higher justice council.

During his time in Neuwied and especially during the First World War , his wife Frieda geb. Vermouth in an extraordinary way in the social and charitable field. For this she was awarded the Red Cross Medal (Prussia) 3rd class and the Charlottenkreuz . A few weeks before the end of the war, Georg Arnold Bacmeister himself was awarded the Royal Royal Crown Order (Prussia) 2nd class for his many years of service.

Bad health, but also humiliated by the American occupation, which had also quartered in his house in Neuwied, Bacmeister applied for release from civil service on April 1, 1920 and moved back to his old hometown of Göttingen. Only a year and a half later he died during a spa stay in Bad Sachsa.

family

Grave site of the Georg Arnold Bacmeister family

Georg Arnold Bacmeister was married to Frieda Wermuth (1853-1940), daughter of the police director and land drosten Karl Wermuth from Hildesheim and sister of the administrative officer and politician Adolf Wermuth . With her he had three sons and a daughter, of whom the eldest son, Georg Albert Bacmeister , district administrator in the Usingen and Labiau districts (1880–1918) and the second, Adolf Bacmeister (1882–1945), chief physician at the lung clinic in St. . Blasien was. The third son, Lucas Wilhelm (1888–1903), died as a child.

Georg Arnold Bacmeister, his wife and son Lucas found their final resting place in the city ​​cemetery (Göttingen) .

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