Hermann Lisco

Hermann Lisco, 1913

Gustav Amandus Hermann Lisco (born January 30, 1850 in Berlin ; † November 7, 1923 there ) was a German lawyer and politician .

Life

Lisco's father was Gustav Lisco , a pastor at the Marienkirche in Berlin . Between 1859 and 1868 he attended the Friedrich Werder Gymnasium then studied in Berlin, Heidelberg and Greifswald the law and was admitted to the Prussian judicial service 1,872th

Lisco's legal career took him in 1879 as a district judge to Rixdorf , in 1883 as a district judge in Berlin , in 1888 as a higher regional judge in Marienwerder and a year later in the same position in Naumburg . In 1903 he was promoted to the Real Secret Senior Justice Council.

In the following year he took over the position of ministerial director of the personnel department of the Prussian Ministry of Justice. From 1907 to 1909 he presided over the Berlin Higher Regional Court , after which he was appointed State Secretary to the Reich Justice Office . He was unable to complete the planned reform of criminal law and criminal procedure law as a result of the war. In August 1917 he had to resign as a result of a government reshuffle.

Lisco held many honorary positions in the area of the Protestant church. Since 1908 he was a member of the general synod of the Old Prussian Evangelical Church , in 1919 a member of the first German Evangelical Church Congress as well as the German Evangelical Church Committee and the Board of Trustees of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church . From 1922 until his death he was President of the Evangelical Union and also an honorary doctorate in theology .

In 1877 he married Helene Heilborn (1856–1924). His son Eduard Lisco became a classical philologist and was the high school director until 1934.

Hermann Lisco died in Berlin in 1923 at the age of 73. He was buried in Cemetery II of the Jerusalem and New Church in Berlin-Kreuzberg . His father, among others, rests in the preserved family grave.

literature

Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Vol. 6. 2., revised. and exp. Ed. Walter de Gruyter Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-598-25036-1 , p. 485.

Web links

Commons : Hermann Lisco - collection of images, videos and audio files

Notes on the estate in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin

Individual evidence

^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , pp. 233-234.

personal data
SURNAME	Lisco, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lisco, Gustav Amandus Hermann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	January 30, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	November 7, 1923
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , pp. 233-234.