Melchior from the ceiling

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Senate President Melchior from the ceiling

Melchior von der Betten (born February 14, 1886 in Itzehoe ; † February 8, 1953 in Hamburg ) was a German lawyer. As a judge he was President of the Senate at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg.

Life

He came from the Lower Saxon noble family von derdecke and grew up in Itzehoe . His father, Alexander von der Betten, was a judge there and later the father became Senate President in Kiel . Melchior von der Betten studied law in Göttingen and became a member of the Corps Bremensia Göttingen like his father Alexander and his grandfather, who was also called Melchior. He then became a district judge in Hamburg and later in Cuxhaven . In 1915 he inherited the Klinten farm near Oederquart from his father and leased the farm.

In 1924, Wilhelm Kiesselbach and Melchior were commissioned by the ceiling to negotiate compensation for the German ships confiscated in the United States. From 1928 Melchior von derdecke represented German interests before the Special Court for War Claims in Washington, DC

In 1932, after ten years of negotiations, compensation of 320 million RM was agreed for the 92 German ships.

He married Margarete Duden in 1925 and they lived in Washington, DC for work from 1925 to 1929, after which they lived in Hamburg in their house at Inselstrasse 20. They had two sons. In 1933 Melchior bought the Benzerhof estate in Benz (Malente) near Eutin together with his brother, the naval officer and farmer Bertold von der Betten .

In 1930 he joined the Hamburg National Club and in 1937 the NSDAP and one year later he became Senate President at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg. Due to his late entry into the party and because he only headed civil senates and did not deal with criminal matters , he was able to remain in the judicial service after May 8, 1945. Despite his membership in the NSDAP, he was consulted by the OLG President Kiesselbach on a commission that carried out denazification within the judiciary .

He was buried in Oederquart near Freiburg on the Elbe .

literature

  • Wulf D. Hund , Christian Seegert: Bourgeois hegemony and conservative continuity of justice. The example of the reopening of the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg in 1945. In: Restoration in law . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 2004, ISBN 3-322-88216-0 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 63 , 315 + 343 + 795 + 1063
  2. ↑ Thassilo from the ceiling, Claudia bei der Wieden: goods and farms of the family from the ceiling. Stade 1998, on Gut Benzerhof : pp. 224 to 229
  3. ^ Wilhelm Kiesselbach , President at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg, summary, pp. 568-574, 1933: The conclusion of the 10-year activity of the German-American Damage Commission and the experiences made in this work. in the journal for foreign public law and international law there Vol. 3 1933: 16 A. International jurisdiction and arbitration
  4. ↑ Melchior von dercken, Council at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg, pp. 575-616, 1933: The principles of valuation in the arbitration proceedings on the compensation for the German ships confiscated in the United States. in the journal for foreign public law and international law there Vol. 3 1933: 16 A. International jurisdiction and arbitration
  5. ↑ Thassilo from the ceiling, Claudia bei der Wieden: goods and farms of the family from the ceiling. Stade 1998, on the Klinten farm: pp. 66 to 67
  6. ↑ Hund / Seegert, p. 18 ff.
  7. ↑ Herwart and Thassilo from the ceiling: family tables of the family from the ceiling , 1994, p. 96
personal data
SURNAME Blankets, Melchior from the
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German judge
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Itzehoe
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1953
Place of death Hamburg