Otto Meyer (lawyer)
Otto Meyer (born December 17, 1867 in Göttingen ; † February 28, 1951 there ) was a German judge .
Life
As the son of Ludwig Meyer (physician) and his wife Anna geb. Hübener attended Otto Meyer at the Königliche Gymnasium Göttingen . After graduating from high school, he studied law at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . In the summer semester of 1886 he became active in the Corps Rhenania Freiburg - as one of 22 foxes in a total of 44 corps boys . As one of only nine remaining foxes, Otto Meyer was reciprocated to Max von Baden on October 28, 1886 and was twice honored as consenior in the two following semesters .
Judge
He served - presumably as a legal trainee in Göttingen - as a one-year volunteer in a Hanoverian regiment and became captain of the Prussian Landwehr . Since June 1, 1893 Gerichtsassessor he was on 16 October 1895 Judge in Srem , Posen . On January 1, 1900, he was appointed district judge at the district court of Lüneburg . In Lüneburg he married Elisabeth von Meibom (1881–1961) on September 9, 1902 . On April 1, 1903, he came to the Verden District Court and on November 1, 1907 to the Celle Higher Regional Court . In 1910 and 1916 Meyer and his wife had two sons in Celle .
In 1914, at the age of 46, he entered the First World War with the infantry regiment "Duke Friedrich Wilhelm von Braunschweig" (East Frisian) No. 78 . After he had fought in the Braunschweig Infantry Regiment No. 92 and the 2nd Hanover Infantry Regiment No. 77 and had been awarded the Iron Cross , he was transferred to the central police station in Włocławek at the end of 1915 .
President of the Court
Since December 21, 1916 go. Councilor of Justice , he was appointed by the Prussian Ministry of Justice on February 1, 1917 as Senate President at the West Prussian Higher Regional Court in Marienwerder . When Marienwerder came to Poland after the Treaty of Versailles in 1920 , Meyer was appointed President of the District Court of Kiel on April 1, 1921 . On April 1, 1923, he returned to Celle as President of the Higher Regional Court. After eight years, he retired on November 1, 1931 at his own request. He obtained his license to practice as a lawyer at the Higher Regional Court, but had to return it after the National Socialist German Workers' Party won the Reichstag elections in March 1933 because his father was of Jewish descent.
In 1934 Meyer moved with his wife to his hometown of Göttingen. In the same year, his corps deleted him from the list of old men under the pressure of the Aryan paragraph . He turned down the offer to resume the tape in 1948 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 35 , 491
- ↑ a b c d e Hans-Jörg Volkmann: Otto Meyer - Traces of a life path . Der Bote vom Oberrhein (Corpszeitung der Rhenania Freiburg), No. 294
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meyer, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German judge; President of the OLG Celle |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 17, 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Goettingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 28, 1951 |
| Place of death | Goettingen |