Otto Gerlach (lawyer)

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Otto Gerlach (born March 14, 1894 in Bremerhaven ; † March 12, 1963 in Uelzen ) was a German lawyer , banker and genealogist .

Life

Gerlach's father was pilot commander in Bremerhaven. He later retired to Bremen and left his family with considerable property in addition to a considerable fortune.

Otto Gerlach attended the old grammar school in Bremen . After graduating from high school in 1912, he began to study law and economics at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . In 1913 he was reciprocated in the Corps Hasso-Borussia Freiburg . As an inactive , he moved to the University of Leipzig in the summer semester of 1914 . In the hussar regiment "King Humbert of Italy" (1st Kurhessisches) No. 13 he took part in the First World War, most recently as lieutenant d. In 1918 he was taken prisoner by the English . He received the Iron Cross 1st class.

After he had passed the first state examination in law in 1918, he went into banking in Bremen . From 1921 he was at the Darmstädter und Nationalbank in Bremen. On 24 March 1924 he was in Leipzig for Dr. iur. PhD . He resigned in 1926 out of the banking system and could in Bremen thanks to the paternal inheritance of Genealogy pay. From 1927 he was only active as a genealogist and historian . In that year he was commissioned to reissue the Kösener corps lists. It appeared in 1930. In 1957 Gerlach made himself available for the 1960 edition. In the obituary of the Kösener associations it was said:

“He has done an invaluable job for German corps students and with this work he has set himself the most beautiful monument. With sadness and pride, the German corps students stand at the stretcher of this man, whom they owe so much to. "

- German corps newspaper

In the post-war period in Germany , Gerlach moved to Uelzen, where he founded the old-man senior citizens' convention .

literature

  • Gerlach, Otto , in: Friedhelm Golücke : Author's lexicon for student and university history. SH-Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89498-130-X . P. 110.
  • Werner Ranz : Otto Gerlach . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research, Vol. 12 (1967), p. 173 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Gerlach (corpsarchive.de)
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 32/325
  3. ↑ Dissertation: To what extent do dispositions of the provisional heir remain effective after they have been rejected? .
personal data
SURNAME Gerlach, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bank lawyer, genealogist and student historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremerhaven
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1963
Place of death Uelzen