Karl Gunkel

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Karl August Gunkel (born May 27, 1864 in Lüneburg , † January 26, 1940 ) was a German judge .

Life

Gunkel was born as the son of the first pastor in Springe. From Michaelmas 1884 to Easter 1886 he studied in Leipzig, where he also became a member of the Leipzig University Choir of St. Pauli in Mainz ( German Choir ). Then he studied in Göttingen until 1888. In 1888 he passed the first state examination ("passed"). As a trainee lawyer he was in Osterode, Lüneburg and Celle. He became an assessor in Göttingen in 1892. Then in 1899 he became a district judge at the Dortmund Regional Court and in 1903 at the Münster Regional Court . In 1906 he became an assistant judge at the Hamm Higher Regional Court and in the same year a regional judge. In 1907 he became a higher regional judge at the higher regional court in Celle . In 1912 he became assistant judge at the Reich Court and in 1914 Reich Judge. He retired on August 31, 1932. He collected Roman and Brunswick-Lüneburg coins. In Leipzig he was a member of the Masonic Lodge Mozart to the brother chain and at times their master from the chair .

family

His parents were Karl Gunkel and Therese Büchner. His brother was Hermann Gunkel . Since 1897 he was with Carla, daughter of the chief bailiff Ernst Lodemann and Luise v. Bar. The couple had three daughters.

Works

  • 200 years of legal life in Hanover. Festschrift commemorating the founding of the Hanover Higher Appeal Court in Celle on October 14, 1711, Hanover 1911.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Seidel, Walter / Sichler, Willmar: Directory of the members of the Association of the Old Paulines in Leipzig 1937, page 16

literature

personal data
SURNAME Gunkel, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gunkel, Karl August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Reich judge
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1940