Herbert Axster
Herbert Axster (born November 3, 1899 - † May 25, 1991 ) was a German lawyer who was affected by Operation Paperclip .
Life
Herbert Axster completed his law studies with the graduation to the Dr. jur. and then worked as a lawyer in Berlin. He was also the editor of the journal for industrial property rights and copyright .
He was friends with the reform pedagogue Maria Montessori , who was also a guest at his country house on the island of Usedom . Herbert Axster was the chairman of the Montessori Pedagogy Association in Germany, which existed until 1936 .
At the end of the Second World War , Herbert Axster was one of those people who, due to their special knowledge of the National Socialist rocket program in Peenemünde , were brought to the USA in 1945 as part of Operation Paperclip . He had been Wernher von Braun's accounting officer until 1945 and was later described as a “notorious supporter and beneficiary of the Nazi regime”.
In January 1947, Herbert Axster began working for the US government at Fort Bliss .
He returned to Germany in the 1950s. In 1965 in Düsseldorf he was one of the founders of the Antitrust Law Association , of which he became a board member.
He was a member of the Corps Palatia Bonn .
Fonts (selection)
- The “dominant company” in the draft law against restraints of competition , Cologne / Berlin, 1956.
- (with other authors): Handbook of the Supervisory Board , Munich, Verlag Moderne Industrie, 1972.
literature
- Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? Berlin 1935, p. 44.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ From childhood to youth: Elementary School - Secondary School - University , 2015, 2nd corrected edition 2018, p. 91.
- ↑ From Dachau to the moon. How Nazi researchers became the fathers of US space travel. In: Die Zeit of May 8, 1987.
- ↑ History of the Studienvereinigung Kartellrecht
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Axster, Herbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 3, 1899 |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 25, 1991 |