Hugo Schreiber

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Hugo Schreiber (2006)

Hugo Schreiber (born February 13, 1919 in Friedensfeld, Bessarabia ; † September 1, 2007 in Burgdorf ) was a lawyer of Bessarabian German origin. After his professional career, he volunteered in a leading position in German organizations in Bessarabia.

Life

Hugo Schreiber was born as the son of Alexander Schreiber and his wife Katharina, b. Eckert, born. His father was initially a teacher and later ran a farm in Friedensfeld as a farmer. His parents lived as Bessarabian Germans in Bessarabia , which at that time belonged to Romania . Hugo Schreiber was born in the village of Friedensfeld, which in 1940 had around 700 residents of German origin. The village was founded in 1879 by settlers of German origin.

After primary school in Friedensfeld, Hugo Schreiber attended the Werner School in Sarata for 3 years . He then went to the boys' grammar school in Tarutino and passed his Abitur in 1939 in Chișinău . He studied law and economics at the University of Bucharest . He interrupted his studies when the Bessarabian Germans were resettled in 1940 . He let himself be used for relief efforts by students at the resettlement camp at the Danube port Galați . Afterwards he volunteered for a fighting unit of the Waffen SS . During the Russian campaign in World War II , he was involved in acts of war in his Romanian and Bessarabian homeland, including in Bucharest, Tarutino and Galați. Mainly he spent the war on missions in Finland. He was wounded several times. In the hospital in Königsberg he met his wife Ilse, whom he married during the war. The marriage produced a son and a daughter.

At the end of the Second World War, Schreiber was taken prisoner by the British. After the war, he continued his studies as a war disabled in Göttingen and passed his first state law examination there in 1949. After his traineeship in the area of ​​the Higher Regional Court of Celle and after the second state examination in 1953, he came to the Osnabrück pension office in 1954. In 1961 he was transferred to the Lower Saxony State Supply Office in Hanover. There he moved to the Lower Saxony Ministry of Social Affairs and in 1969 came to the social justice system . In 1970 he became a state social judge and in 1977 presiding judge at the state social court of Lower Saxony-Bremen in Celle. He headed a senate for war victims' compensation . In 1984 Hugo Schreiber retired. Following his professional career, he held a leading position in Bessarabian German organizations and took on journalistic tasks. From 1987 to 2000 he was editor of the bi-weekly newsletter of the Germans from Bessarabia , in which he wrote leading articles. From 1994 he was co-editor of the Yearbook of Germans from Bessarabia . He contributed his legal expertise to the unification of the three Bessarabian German associations to form the Bessarabian German Association in 2006.

Hugo Schreiber died on September 1, 2007 in the Burgdorf district of Ehlershausen and was buried in the cemetery where he lived in Ramlingen.

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SURNAME Clerk, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bessarabian-German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedensfeld, Bessarabia
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 2007
Place of death Burgdorf