Hermann Ascher

Hermann Ascher as a court trainee

Hermann Bernhard Joachim Ascher (born September 4, 1844 in Minden ; † September 15, 1931 in Münster ) was a German administrative lawyer and President of the General Commission for the Province of Westphalia .

family

Ascher was a son of the senior government councilor and manor owner Philipp Ludwig Joachim Ascher and his wife Maria Theresa Luise, born. Friedlander. He was married to Elisabeth, born in 1875. Bugisch. The marriage resulted in two sons and three daughters.

career

After attending school in Frankfurt an der Oder, Berlin (Köllnisches Gymnasium) and Potsdam, Ascher began studying law at the University of Heidelberg in 1862 (member of the Corps Rhenania ), which he later continued in Berlin. In 1865 he became an auscultator, in 1867 a court clerk, in 1870 a court assessor and in November 1871 a district judge in Senftenberg . In July 1873 he became the second mayor of Naumburg (Saale) . In October 1874 he resigned from the judiciary and was entrusted with the administration of a court commission in Fürstenwalde . For a time he was also an assistant judge at the Berlin City Court, from February 1875 district judge in Züllichau .

In 1878 Ascher was taken over from the judicial service and into the agricultural administration. From July to November 1878 he was trained as a special commissioner at the General Commission in Münster. In August 1878 he became a government assessor. From December 1878 he officiated as a special commissioner in Höxter. As a councilor (1880), he became a regular member of the General Commission for the Province of Westphalia and the Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe in Münster in October 1881 . In March 1887 he was appointed senior councilor. On August 8, 1893 he was appointed President of the General Commission for the Province of Westphalia, from 1907 onwards with the character of Act. Go Council with the rank of Councilors I. Class.

Part-time Ascher was director of the Rentenbank for the province of Westphalia, the province of Hessen-Nassau, the Rhine province and the Hohenzollerschen Lande and, since 1917, a deputy member of the supervisory board of the “Rote Erde” settlement company in Münster. He took temporary retirement on November 1, 1919 and final retirement on April 1, 1921.

Awards

The award went to Hermann Ascher u. a. with the Red Eagle Order 3rd class m. Loop (1896), the Red Eagle Order 2nd class m. Eichenlaub (1901), the star for the Red Eagle Order 2nd Class (1915) and the Cross of Honor 1st Class of the Fstl. Schaumburg- Lippe House Order (1916).

swell

• State Archives Münster, personal file A 9

literature

• German contemporary lexicon. Biographical handbook of German men and women of the present , Leipzig 1905, Sp. 28f.