Gustav Theodor Tesdorpf

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Gustav Theodor Tesdorpf (born February 18, 1851 in Hamburg ; † February 15, 1933 there ) was a Hamburg lawyer and member of parliament.

Life

Gustav Theodor Tesdorpf came from the Tesdorpf-Meyer line of the Hanseatic family Tesdorpf , which went back to Johann Christoph Tesdorpf (1785–1857), landlord of Groß Weeden . He was a son of the Hamburg merchant Theodor Ferdinand Tesdorpf (1816–1893) and his wife Freya Caroline Adolphine, born. by Torp (1820-1900). Oscar Louis Tesdorpf was his younger brother, Ebba Tesdorpf was his cousin and the painter Ilse Tesdorpf-Edens was his great niece.

Gustav Tesdorpf grave ,
Ohlsdorf cemetery, Hamburg

After studying law, Tesdorpf received his doctorate in Leipzig in 1877 . He was admitted to the bar in Hamburg on June 8, 1877 and was initially employed in the practice of Antoine-Feill . In January 1879 he was appointed a police attorney's assistant, in October 1879 a public prosecutor's assistant. Tesdorpf was appointed judge at the Hamburg district court in 1882. In 1910 he was elected President of the District Court and held this office until 1921. Tesdorpf was deputy chairman of the arbitration tribunal for accident and disability insurance until 1912, and later he worked as an honorary chairman of the pension fund for state employees and workers .

From 1892 to 1919 Tesdorpf belonged to the Hamburg citizenship . He was a member of the right-wing group . From 1903 to 1904 he was a member of the presidium and chairman of the budget committee of the citizenship for over 20 years.

He was married to Helene Berkefeld. The daughter Freya Freifrau von Tettau (1893–1977) came from this marriage.

Gustav Theodor Tesdorpf was buried in Hamburg in the area of ​​the family complex on the Ohlsdorf cemetery in grid square T 26 (south of Kapellenstrasse, east of Waldstrasse ).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See obituary, District Court President a. D. Dr. Testorpf in Hamburger Nachrichten No. 80 of February 16, 1933
  2. ^ Gerrit Schmidt: The history of the Hamburg lawyers from 1815 to 1879, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3923725175 , p. 373
personal data
SURNAME Tesdorpf, Gustav Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician, MdHB
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1933
Place of death Hamburg