Georg Schaps
Georg Schaps (born May 11, 1867 in Breslau , † September 6, 1918 on the Watzmann ) was a German judge .
Life
From 1884 to 1887 he studied law in Breslau, Leipzig and Berlin. The doctorate took place at Levin Goldschmidt in 1887 at his suggestion. From 1888 to 1891 Schaps was a trainee lawyer in Hamburg and Breslau. In 1894 he was appointed magistrate in Hamburg. In 1897 he became a district judge in Hamburg. In 1901 he was again a district judge and in 1906 again a district judge. In 1910 he became a higher regional judge in Hamburg. In 1918 Schaps became the district court director in Hamburg. Georg Schaps was an internationally known maritime lawyer who was appointed to the Imperial Court in Leipzig on March 1, 1918 , as the second Jew in the Empire alongside Jacob Friedrich Behrend . His work " The German Law of the Sea " was the supplementary volume to the commentary on the Commercial Code by Hermann Staub .
Schaps died in 1918 while climbing Watzmann at heart .
family
His widow Jenny Schaps (1867–1950) was close friends with the Viktor Klemperers family. The daughter, Toni Schaps (1900–1982 or 1984), was married to Hans Gerstle (1884–1942), the owner of the Radebeul coffee substitute factory Otto E. Weber . The younger daughter, Elise "Lisel" Schaps (1894–1960) married the Königsberg lawyer and lecturer for international maritime law at the Königsberg Commercial College, Julius Sebba (1882–1959), who after Schaps' death took over his work Das deutsche Maritime Law .
Works
- On the history of the bill endorsement , Stuttgart 1892 (reprinted Leipzig 1975).
- German Maritime Law, Commentary on Book Four of the Commercial Code , Berlin 1906
- Retaliation Act and Retaliation Measures, in: Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung, Volume 21 (1916), Sp. 923ff.
literature
- Adolf Lobe : Fifty Years of the Reich Court on October 1, 1929. Berlin 1929, p. 382.
- Walter Nowojski, Christian Löser (Ed.): Victor Klemperer. Diaries 1945–1959. So I sit between all the chairs. Volume 1, Berlin 1999, p. 769.
Individual evidence
- ^ Renate Heuer : Bibliographia Judaica: Directory of Jewish authors in the German language , Volume 3, 1988, p. 338; Lobe indicates August 22, 1918.
- ↑ Appendix: Victor Klemperer: Die Tagebücher, Book 138, p. 589.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schaps, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Imperial Judge |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 6, 1918 |
| Place of death | Watzmann |