Ludwig Frege

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The longstanding official residence of Ludwig Frege. The building erected in 1875 at Hardenbergstrasse 31 (behind the Zoo train station ) was the seat of the Prussian Higher Administrative Court in Berlin from 1907, after the Second World War until 1953 the Administrative Court for the British Sector, and from June 8, 1953 to August 2002 also the Federal Administrative Court; today it is the seat of the OVG Berlin-Brandenburg

Wolfgang Christian Ludwig Frege (born August 28, 1884 in Potsdam ; †  March 25, 1964 in Überlingen ) was a German lawyer , first President of the Berlin Administrative Court and first President of the Federal Administrative Court .

Life

Frege's parents were Franz Friedrich Konrad Frege (born October 26, 1843, † 1920 in Liegnitz ), and Anna Maria Luisa b. Christiani. When the father married Auguste Hedwig Agnes Nitsche (born August 15, 1846) in the Nikolaikirche in Berlin on October 6, 1873 , his profession was assistant to the royal public prosecutor in Angermünde . Franz Frege was a son of the theologian and Berlin-Schöneberg pastor Ferdinand Ludwig Frege (born July 6, 1804 in Berlin, † July 6, 1883 in Schönberg), after whom Fregestraße in the Berlin district of Friedenau was named. Great-grandfather Johann Christoph Frege (1750–1829) was a citizen and master tailor in Berlin.

After graduating from high school in 1903, Frege studied law and political science at the universities of Heidelberg , Berlin and Breslau . In 1904 he became a member of the Corps Vandalia in Heidelberg . In 1908 he received his doctorate. iur. In 1912 he entered the Prussian judicial service after passing his second state examination . In this career he last worked at the Prussian Higher Administrative Court in Berlin from 1932 and rose to the higher administrative court councilor. In 1942 he was retired. He then worked as a legal expert at Deutsche Industriebank from 1942 to 1945 . After the end of World War II, he was first president from 1945 of the District Administrative Court of Berlin-Zehlendorf , in 1951 the first president of the same year the newly built Berlin Administrative Court . On March 13, 1953, the Judges' Election Committee elected him the first President of the Federal Administrative Court created by the law of September 23, 1952 . He exercised the office from the opening of the court (at the same time his inauguration) on June 8, 1953 to 1955.

Frege married Eva Gertrud Clara Reitzenstein (born October 26, 1894 in Breslau ) on August 5, 1918 in Berlin-Grunewald , a daughter of the regional court president Hermann Reitzenstein and Hermina nee. Castle of Peace.

Frege had been a member of the lawless society in Berlin since 1956 , in which numerous members of Prussia's “social elite” could be found. Frege's son Joachim Frege also pursued a career as a judge. His son Michael Frege also became a lawyer, while his youngest son Andreas Frege became known under the stage name Campino as the singer of the rock group Die Toten Hosen .

Frege's grave at the Zehlendorf forest cemetery

Ludwig Frege was a descendant of Joachim Frege (* before 1687 in Neuruppin ; † 1747 there), citizen and cloth maker in Neuruppin, a brother of Pastor Christian Frege (* August 17, 1682 in Neuruppin; † November 22, 1753 in Lampertswalde ), ancestor the Frege line, which owned the Fregehaus in Leipzig .

Frege is buried in the forest cemetery in Zehlendorf .

literature

  • International Biographical Archive 24/1964 from June 1, 1964
  • Johanna Rakebrand: The legal man Ludwig Frege (1884–1964). A biography told scientifically , Bielefeld: transcript 2019, ISBN 978-3-8376-4875-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. Baptismal register of the Ev. Luth. Nikolaikirche zu Berlin, also the registry office Berlin-Grunewald marriage register
  2. Marriage register, Berlin-Grunewald , August 5, 1918 Certificate No. 28 for Wolfgang Ludwig Frege and Eva Gertrud Clara born. Reitzenstein
  3. Marriage register of the Nikolaikirche in Berlin, December 18, 1803
  4. Gottlob Frege Life-Work-Time; Lothar Kreiser, Meiner Verlag, Hamburg, 2001
  5. Kösener Corps lists 1910, 122 , 807
  6. Minutes of the 283rd cabinet meeting of the German Federal Government on March 20, 1953, Vol. 6 , Federal Archives
  7. Marriage register, Berlin-Grunewald, August 5, 1918 Certificate No. 28 for Wolfgang Ludwig Frege and Eva Gertrud Clara born. Reitzenstein
  8. ^ Chronological list of members of the lawless society in Berlin
  9. Speech by Dr. H. c. Eckart Hien, President of the Federal Administrative Court a. D.
  10. Gottlob Frege Life-Work-Time; Lothar Kreiser, Meiner Verlag, Hamburg, 2001
  11. Leipziger Volkszeitung , August 27, 2003 ( online ( memento of November 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive )).