Otto Amend

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Otto Amend (born April 7, 1876 in Langen (Hesse) , † after 1936 ) was a German lawyer and National Socialist functionary.

Life

He was the son of the district court assistant Theodor Amend and his wife Karoline nee Schmidt. After attending grammar school in Darmstadt, Otto Amend went to the University of Würzburg , then to Munich and Giessen, where he studied law. In 1898 he passed the exam in Giessen and took up the preparatory service at the regional court. Then he moved to the Darmstadt district office. From 1900 to 1901 he was a one-year volunteer in the military in the 1st Hessian Infantry Regiment 115. From 1908 he worked as a lawyer at the Darmstadt Higher Regional Court. In 1913 he joined the Hessian Automobile Club. From 1914 to 1918 Otto Amend took part in the First World War.

In 1920 Otto Amend moved from the Darmstadt Higher Regional Court to Berlin , where he worked as a tax attorney until 1926. Then he went back to Darmstadt, where he worked as a lawyer and from 1934 also as a notary. He shared his office with the NSDAP politician and lawyer Wilhelm Klein on today's Luisenplatz , the city center of Darmstadt (then Adolf-Hitler-Platz).

On July 1, 1931, he joined the NSDAP .

In November 1932, Otto Amend was appointed Gauobmann for the Darmstadt Higher Regional Court district in the Association of National Socialist German Jurists (BNSDJ) , which was founded in 1928 as an organization within the NSDAP by Hans Frank . In February 1933 he was promoted to Gauführer there. In February 1933 Otto Amend was appointed to the staff of the legal department of the Reich leadership.

Honors

  • Iron Cross 2nd class
  • Hessian bravery medal
  • Hessian military honor

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Allgemeine Automobil-Zeitung , Volume 14, Parts 1–2, 1913, p. 12
  2. ↑ DFG-VK Darmstadt "From Nobility to Forced Labor - Keywords on the Military and National Socialism in Darmstadt"
personal data
SURNAME Amend, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and National Socialist functionary
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Langen (Hesse)
DATE OF DEATH after 1936