Max Sitzler

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Max Sitzler (* 1875 in Riesenburg , West Prussia ; † 1952 ) was a German administrative lawyer. During the Weimar Republic he was curator of the University of Kiel for 17 years.

Life

Sitzler began to study philosophy, law and political science as well as economics at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . He moved to the local Albertus University in Königsberg and was reciprocated in the Corps Hansea Königsberg in 1895 . As an inactive , he went to the University of Leipzig , the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . From the Royal University of Greifswald he was awarded a Dr. iur. PhD. In 1903 he joined the internal administration of Prussia, first as a government trainee in Aurich, then as a government assessor at the district office of the Brieg district . 1907–1910 he was at the Berlin police headquarters . From 1911 he was in Koblenz for ten years , first with the government in Koblenz , then with the Upper Presidium of the Rhine Province , most recently as an Upper Government Councilor . In 1921 he was appointed Ministerialrat in the Prussian Ministry of Science, Art and Education . There he worked in the department for elementary schools. His areas of specialization were constitutional and administrative law , in particular disciplinary law and school law, as well as economics. In November 1926 he was appointed curator of the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . In a letter dated November 2, 1926, Rector Leonhard Jores greeted him "with joy". In 1937 Sitzler handed over the newly opened Institute for Oceanography Kiel to Adolf Remane in Kitzeberg . In a letter to Justus Theodor Valentiner , he opposed the return of Hermann Kantorowicz , who had spoken out against Germany on the question of war guilt . When he reached the age limit , he resigned from the office of curator in 1943. A species of cactus is named after him.

Individual evidence

  1. Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 85/137.
  2. Dissertation: The necessary dispute union within the meaning of § 62 of the Civil Procedure Code .
  3. sub.uni-hamburg.de
  4. Inauguration of the Institute for Oceanography (Federal Archives)
  5. Science Policy in the Weimar Republic. Documents on university development in the Free State of Prussia and on selected professorial appointments in six disciplines (2016)
  6. Conophytum Sitzlerianum in culture (Kaktusnews)