Hugo Ludwig Rath
Hugo Ludwig Rath (born April 27, 1904 in Hagen ; † January 30, 1987 in Munich ) was a German administrative officer, local politician and lawyer.
Life
Hugo Ludwig Rath grew up as the son of a brick manufacturer in Hagen and attended grammar school there until he graduated from high school in 1925. He then studied law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and passed the first state examination in 1930 and the assessor examination in 1934. Rath worked in 1935 as a magistrate in the local government of Sagan in Lower Silesia , and later as a magistrate in Opole . In 1936 he became city councilor in Oberhausen in the Rhineland and finally in 1939 Lord Mayor of the city of Zeitz until it was liberated from National Socialism in 1945. Rath received the war merit crosses first and second class. His successor as Lord Mayor was on April 27, 1945 the publisher Arthur Jubelt, who was temporarily appointed by the American military administration . Rath returned to his homeland in July 1945 before Thuringia was handed over to the Soviet occupation zone.
After the war, Rath worked as a lawyer and syndic of the United Deutsche Metallwerke , from 1958 as a lawyer and notary in Altena .
He had been a member of the Corps Hannovera Göttingen since 1926 . From 1946 to 1980 he was chairman of the Alten-Herren-Seniors-Convent Altena.
literature
- Heinrich F. Curschmann: Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera zu Göttingen, Volume 1: 1809–1899 Göttingen 2002, No. 1017
Individual evidence
- ^ Rolf Jehke: Stadtkreis Zeitz. In: Territorial changes in Germany and German administered areas 1874 - 1945. October 5, 2006, accessed on May 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 59 , 958.
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| SURNAME | Rath, Hugo Ludwig |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rath, Hugo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German local politician, Lord Mayor of Zeitz, later lawyer and notary in Altena |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 27, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hagen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 30, 1987 |
| Place of death | Munich |