Hugo Bach (judge)

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Hugo Bach (born September 14, 1872 in Zillbach , † September 16, 1950 in Oberweimar (Thuringia) ) was a German judge.

Life

As the son of the pastor and later superintendent Wilhelm Bach , Hugo Bach attended the Carl-Friedrich-Gymnasium Eisenach . After graduating from high school , he enrolled at the University of Jena for law . In 1891/92 he was active in the Corps Thuringia Jena for four semesters . He was a sub- senior , senior and "Duke of Lichtenhain" . When he was inactive , he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin and later to the Friedrichs-Universität Halle . After he had passed the trainee exam in 1896 , he served as a one-year volunteer in the Kaiser Franz Garde Grenadier Regiment No. 2 in 1896/97 . At its later dissolution he was major in the reserve .

After the assessor examination , he spent a year with the public prosecutor's office in Gera , then six years as judge- martial in Allenstein , Tientsien and Stettin . After switching to the Imperial Colonial Service, he was district judge in Keetmanshoop for six years and - at the same time as the chief judge's representative - in Windhoek . He took part in the First World War in South West Africa as a company commander in the protection force for South West Africa . After all, he was Imperial Chief Justice of German South West Africa , and from 1920 as a Privy Councilor of Justice . At that time, the German press gave an “impressive description of the patience and presence of mind with which he had overcome a wild assassin [on the farmer Karl Langkopp]”. After a brief activity at the Reich Commissioner for Foreign Affairs , he came to the Reich Compensation Office for War Damage in 1921 , first as a department head , then as director and finally as permanent representative of the president . After retiring , he settled in Berlin as a lawyer . Bombed out at the end of 1943, he moved to Tyrol and then married his sister Martha. Meyer in Oberweimar. In the post-war period he was a judge at the Weimar Regional Court for almost five years. He was an honorary member of his corps.

In 1901 Bach married Amalie Lüdde. She died before him. The two daughters and two grandsons returned to South West Africa . After a stroke in the spring of 1950, he succumbed to the second half a year later.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Archives Corps Thuringia Jena
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 77/717
  3. ↑ Databases of the Institute for African Studies
  4. ↑ N. Aas (Open Library) ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / openlibrary.org
  5. ↑ Heinrich Lang Kopp: 22 years on the interior of Africa. What I strived for, experienced, suffered. O. Bader, Gnötzheim near Würzburg 1929.
personal data
SURNAME Bach, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German judge and ministerial official
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Zillbach (Schwallungen)
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1950
Place of death Oberweimar (Thuringia)