Lothar Schilling (lawyer)

Lothar Schilling (born July 4, 1834 in Leipzig ; † May 27, 1879 there ) was a German judge at the Reich Higher Commercial Court .

Life

He was the son of the Leipzig law professor Bruno Schilling from his second marriage. He attended the Nikolaischule and began to study law in Leipzig in 1851 . At Easter 1854 he passed his university examination "with first censorship", ie top grade.

He then worked for various lawyers. In July 1856 he became a remunerated recorder (assistant trainee ) at the Döbeln district court . From October 1856 to 1858 he was an actuary (corresponds to today's trainee lawyer ). In 1865 he was promoted from the office secretary of the Dresden Court of Appeal to the Judicial Council at the Annaberg District Court . In 1866 he came to the Dresden Court of Appeal as an unskilled worker . In 1869 he was promoted to council there. In 1870 he also took on the role of deputy attorney general, became a member of the examination commission and in 1872 became vice-president of the court of appeal. In 1875 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Saxon Order of Merit and dismissed from the Saxon civil service in order to enter the Reich Higher Commercial Court. In mid-December 1878 he had to call in sick, and in May 1879 he died as a designated Reich judge . Heinrich Scheele took his place .

Schilling was married to Elisabeth Schneider , the daughter of Justice Minister Robert Schneider , a patron who had already died at the time and who had promoted Schilling's career during his lifetime.

literature

• Higher Commercial Court Councilor Schilling, (…) † (…). In: Leipziger Zeitung. July 3, 1879, p. 317 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl Biedermann : The new German imperial court in Leipzig . In: The Gazebo . Issue 40, 1879, pp. 663 ( full text [ Wikisource ] - note 1).