Lothar Engelbert Schücking

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Lothar Engelbert Schücking (1908)

Lothar Engelbert Schücking (born April 30, 1873 in Wollin ; † February 2, 1943 in Sassenberg ) was a German lawyer , writer , politician , pacifist and local researcher.

family

The Schückings are an old bourgeois patrician family based in the Münsterland, originally from Coesfeld, who have produced many outstanding personalities over the centuries. Schücking was the eldest child of Lothar Carl Levin Schücking and his wife Luise Wilhelmine Amalie nee. Beitzke (1849–1920) and thus a grandson of Levin Schücking on his father's side . He was the brother of the politician and international lawyer Walther Schücking (1875-1935) and the English language professor and Shakespeare researcher Levin Ludwig Schücking (1878-1964).

One year after Schücking's birth, the family moved from Wollin to Burgsteinfurt and later to Münster. In Münster, Schücking attended the Paulinum grammar school , where he graduated from high school in 1892.

He married Eva Bachmann (* 1880, † 1966) from Osnabrück on October 26, 1906 in Osnabrück, the daughter of the lawyer Julius Bachmann . The two children sprang from this marriage

  • Julius Lothar (born August 1, 1904 in Osnabrück, Dr. phil., Journalist and critic, later editor, missing in Russia since 1945)
  • Eva (born May 5, 1908 in Husum; † January 3, 1971; teacher).

The marriage was divorced on February 6, 1912. Schücking's second wife was Ellen Louise Hudoffsky (* 1894; † 1969) in Altona on April 7, 1919. The three other children sprang from this marriage

  • Annette Gerhardine Louise Schücking-Homeyer (judge, born March 1, 1920 in Dortmund, † 2017, 2 children)
  • Sybille Katharina Schücking-Helfferich (veterinarian, born June 15, 1921 in Dortmund, † October 24, 2000 in Warendorf, 4 children)
  • Engelbert Schücking (astrophysicist, born May 23, 1926 in Dortmund, † January 5, 2015 in Greenwich Village, New York City, 5 children)

Life

Schücking, he was Mayor of Husum , published with the bracketed words "Mayor XY Z." In 1908 the sensational pamphlet The reaction in the internal administration of Prussia . The font was published by the publisher of the journal “Die Hilfe” published by Friedrich Naumann ; The book designer was Adolf Amberg . Thereupon the Prussian Interior Minister Friedrich von Moltke initiated disciplinary proceedings, which he hoped to get Schücking removed from office. Schücking, who had already resigned his mayor's office in January 1909, was sentenced to a fine for serious breach of duty. In a subsequent appeal, the Prussian Higher Administrative Court sentenced him in September 1909 for breach of duty of loyalty; his pension entitlement and title were revoked.

Works

  • The court of the Westphalian church bailiff (900-1200). A contribution to the German court system and court proceedings in the Middle Ages , In: Zeitschrift für vaterländische Geschichte und Altertumskunde (Westphalia) Vol. 55, 1 (1897), pp. 1-44.
  • The principalities of Münster and Osnabrück under French rule. Munster 1904.
  • The reaction in the internal administration of Prussia. Book publisher "Hilfe", Berlin-Schöneberg 1908.
  • Democratic considerations. Munich 1909.
  • The miscarriage of the conservatives under Kaiser Wilhelm II. Munich 1909.
  • The misery of the Prussian administration. Munich 1911.
  • The democratization of the judiciary in 1913
  • The internal democratization of Prussia. The democratization of internal administration. Munich 1919.
  • One year on Oesel, contributions to Ludendorff's system. Berlin 1920.
  • The pacifist basis of the medieval constitution of the Principality of Münster. Leipzig 1924.
  • Christoph Bernhard von Galen, Prince-Bishop of Münster: A character image of the Baroque (1606-1678). Emsdetten 1940.

literature

  • Reinhold Lütgemeier-Davin: Lothar Schücking (1873-1943). A biography . Donat, Bremen 1998, ISBN 978-3-931737-57-3 .
  • Ulf Morgenstern : Bismarck as a family problem for the liberal bourgeoisie. The Schücking and Beitzke families between worshiping and criticizing Bismarck . In: Yearbook for Liberalism Research 27 (2015), pp. 49–63.
  • Levin Ludwig Schücking: Chats with Lothar Engelbert. Bamberg 1948.
  • Walther Schücking (Ed.): The indictments of the Royal Government against the Mayor Dr. Lothar Schücking in Husum. Berlin 1908.
  • Thomas Steensen: The "Schücking case" 1908. A Husum mayor fighting for liberal reforms. In: Nordfriesisches Jahrbuch 44 (2009), pp. 63–84.
  • Clemens Steinbicker: Westphalian gender book . Starcke, Limburg an der Lahn 1970, ISBN 978-3-7980-0152-7 .
  • Lothar Wieland: Lothar Engelbert Schücking . In: Helmut Donat , Karl Holl (ed.): The peace movement. Organized pacifism in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Düsseldorf 1983, p. 341 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albert Grzesinski, Eberhard Kolb: In the struggle for the German republic . Memories of a Social Democrat. Oldenbourg, Munich 2001, ISBN 978-3-486-56591-1 , pp. 202 .
  2. ↑ Thomas Nipperdey: German History 1866-1918, Vol. 2, Power State before Democracy . CH Beck, 1995, ISBN 978-3-406-34801-3 , pp. 119 .
  3. ↑ Lothar Engelbert Schücking: The democratization of justice . In: March, a weekly journal . 7th year, issue 39 March-Verlag, Munich September 27, 1913, p. 459-461 .
personal data
SURNAME Schücking, Lothar Engelbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, writer, politician, pacifist and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Wollin
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1943
Place of death Sassenberg