Hermann Scheer (politician, 1855)

Hermann Karl August Löwenstein , from April 8, 1885 Hermann Karl August Scheer, (born December 8, 1855 in Jever , † February 20, 1928 in Oldenburg ) was a German administrative lawyer and foreign and interior minister of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg .

Life

Scheer was the son of the doctor Moritz Löwenstein (1816–1875), who had converted from the Jewish faith to Christianity , and his wife Johanna Sophie Juliane born. Scheer (1822–1885), daughter of the lawyer at the Jever Supreme Court, Johann Anton Scheer (1787–1849). With the permission of the Grand Duke, in 1885 he took his mother's surname, which otherwise would have died out. On the paternal side there was a relationship to Erich Koch-Weser .

Scheer attended the Mariengymnasium Jever and studied law at the universities of Munich , Leipzig and Berlin from 1875 to 1878 . After completing his legal preparatory service in 1880, he entered the Oldenburg state service and initially became an auditor in Jever, later in Birkenfeld in the Principality of Birkenfeld, which belongs to Oldenburg . In 1883 he was assigned to the Department of Home Affairs as secretary and was appointed assessor in the same year . Four years later, he came as Amtshauptmann for Brake . In 1894 he moved to the Varel office .

After two years, Scheer became a lecturer in the State Ministry of the Grand Duchy with the title of Government Councilor . Among other things, he was responsible for the shipping department.

In the government under Minister of State Friedrich Ruhstrat , Scheer was appointed Minister on August 18, 1908 and took over the departments of the Interior, the Foreign and the Grand Ducal House. He also kept this post in the government appointed after Ruhstrat's death in 1916 under his cousin Franz Friedrich Ruhstrat . Politically, Scheer belonged to the moderate conservatives . At the end of October 1918, he and Otto Graepel spoke out against a parliamentary government. After the end of the war and during the events of the November Revolution, however, he quickly yielded to the pressure of the situation, accepted the necessary constitutional changes and, as a non-party specialist minister, was also part of the Oldenburg state directorate, which acted as a provisional government after the abdication of the Grand Duke. From June 1919 Scheer was a deputy authorized representative at the State Committee and later in the same function at the Reichsrat in Berlin, a member of the state representatives for legislation and administration in the Weimar Republic . On September 21, 1924, he retired.

In 1927 he and Eduard Niebour , the former President of the Oldenburg Higher Regional Court , published a 4-volume collection of the laws in force in the Oldenburger Land for the period from 1813 to 1926 as an update of an outdated collection of laws.

family

Scheer was married to Amalie geb. Graepel (1858–1928), the daughter of the businessman Johann Gustav Balduin Graepel and Anna Helene geb. Gaps. The couple had two children, of whom the son Hermann Gustav (* 1886) later became a member of the senior government.

Publications

• The rule of Jever under Anhalt-Zerbstischer administration. In: OJb, 29, 1925, pp. 202-215;
• Collection of the laws, ordinances and notices applicable in the Oldenburg region from the years 1813 up to and including 1926. Compiled by Hermann Scheer and Eduard Niebour, 4 volumes, Oldenburg 1927.

literature

• Hans Friedl: Scheer, Hermann. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 632 f. ( online ).