Jürgen Hagedorn (lawyer)

Jürgen Hermann Dittmar Hagedorn (born August 18, 1910 in Schleswig ; † January 25, 1981 in Schrevenborn ) was a German lawyer, farmer and forest manager and general landscape director.

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Jürgen Hagedorn was a son of Fred Hagedorn and his wife Marie Clara, née Finkler (born February 13, 1885 in Bonn , † July 21, 1966 in Schrevenborn). His father had owned the Schrevenborn estate since 1917. His mother was the daughter of the physician Dittmar Finkler and his wife Karoline, nee König.

From 1920 Hagedorn went to the Friedrichswerder high school and in autumn 1923 switched to the Kiel School of Academics , which he left at Easter 1929 with the Abitur. Then he received a six-month agricultural training on an estate near Landskrona . In the winter semester of 1929/30 he began studying law at the University of Göttingen. In 1930 he became a member of the Corps Bremensia Göttingen . In 1931 he studied for one semester at the University of Grenoble and moved to the University of Kiel in the autumn of the same year. On April 21, 1934, he passed the trainee exam. He did not comply with an appointment as a court trainee in mid-November 1934. Instead, he attended Yale Law School in New Haven from 1934 to 1936 , where he received his master's degree. In February 1939 he passed the assessor exam in Berlin. His doctorate on American divorce law followed in April 1940 at the University of Göttingen.

During the Second World War , Hagedorn was drafted for military service at the end of June 1939. He worked in the staff of supply forces and was appointed officer in 1941. After the end of the war, on June 27, 1945, he went to the Schrevenborn estate, which he had inherited from his father. On March 23, 1946 he married Gertraud Kiel (born November 6, 1918 in Sondershausen ). The couple had a daughter and two sons.

In the context of a denazification procedure, Hagedorn was considered unencumbered according to an assessment from February 1947. Five months later he was admitted to the bar. In November 1953 he was appointed notary in Kiel. From 1945 to 1978 he also worked as managing director of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft des Grundbesitzes (AdG). Hagedorn made a particular contribution to a land reform in which the AdG was able to convince landowners to voluntarily give land to displaced persons. Together with Conrad von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt, as chairman of the landowners association, he averted an agricultural reform that would have hit owners of larger estates particularly hard. The second Agrarian Reform Act of February 24, 1949, for example, provided for land ownership to be limited to 100 hectares and areas beyond that to be collected. The landowners should receive 30% of the unit value as compensation.

Hagedorn took action against the law on behalf of the AdG. Based on his extensive legal knowledge and knowledge of Anglo-American law, he negotiated with the military government. In doing so, he was anxious to solve the displaced persons problem quickly and also in a satisfactory way for the landowners. In April 1949, the landowners repeatedly offered to sell 30,000 hectares of land. Hagedorn then worked out an extensive 10-point program that stipulated that the multiple owners should sell their land voluntarily, based on private contracts. They should receive prices based on the market value. The state government accepted this proposal. Even critics described Hagedorn's proposal as unprecedented in Germany.

Hagedorn's plan was implemented from May 1949 to June 1950. Then he took action against the laws that had been passed as part of the agrarian reform. A law repealing land law regulations resulting from his efforts was passed on December 24, 1960. After that, Hagedorn campaigned in particular to improve the economic situation of the landowners. He played a decisive role in the founding of the advisory ring for agricultural companies. V. , which he largely built and organized himself. The organization had permanent agricultural consultants in Schleswig-Holstein who each supported around 20 to 30 companies that belonged to the association. It was mandatory for the members to disclose all economic details in order to enable comparisons. In the majority of the companies, the management level was at a high and contemporary level.

From 1956 the farmer and forester Hagedorn worked as general landscape councilor , from 1958 to 1978 as general landscape director in the management of the Schleswig-Holstein landscape . From 1958 to 1970 he also took on a teaching position for agricultural law at the University of Kiel. Hagedorn very successfully expanded the business area of ​​the mortgage bank to include municipal lending.

Hagedorn was very keen on independence. Therefore, he did not join any party. He was a member of the supervisory boards of Bank Companie Nord, the landscape book and advice center and the Schleswig-Holstein wood agency. He took over the chairmanship of the German Society for Agricultural Law and was involved in the board of the Schleswig-Holstein Forest Owners Association. In all these activities he always wanted to serve the whole of agriculture and achieve a balance of interests of large and small farms. In this way he succeeded in ensuring that the AdG and the farmers' association worked together successfully by consensus.

literature

• Harro Grotsch: Hagedorn, Jürgen . in: Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck . Volume 8. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1987, pp. 169-171.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 39 , 1267