Otto Schoenrich

Otto Schoenrich (born July 9, 1876 in Baltimore , Maryland , † February 9, 1977 in Towson , Maryland) was an American lawyer .

Life

Family and education

Otto Schoenrich, the eldest of four children of the German language teacher Carl Otto Schoenrich (1847-1932) and his wife Lena A. nee Sieck (1853-1940), graduated in 1894 with honors from Baltimore City College. He then turned to studying law at the University of Maryland School of Law, where he earned a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1897 . He continued his studies during his stay in Cuba at the University of Havana , where he received his doctorate magna cum laude in 1922 as Doctor of Laws .

Otto Schoenrich married the Puerto Rican-born María Janer Arias (1878-1939) on June 10, 1902. From this connection came the daughter Mercedes Schoenrich Janer (1903-1995), who was married to Fred Lynn Steely, and the son Carlos Otto Schoenrich Janer (1912-2003). Otto Schoenrich died in February 1977 five months before he would have turned 101 in Towson. He was buried in Hartsdale , New York State .

Professional background

After graduating from the University of Maryland School of Law, Otto Schoenrich practiced as a lawyer in the states of Maryland and New Mexico , in 1900 he moved to San Juan as an assistant to the Commission to Revise and Compile Laws of Puerto Rico , and in the following year he became a district judge the Puerto Rican port city of Arecibo . 1904 he was appointed Municipal Judge of situated on the west coast port city of Mayagüez , in addition he was since 1905 as Secretary of the Special United States Commissioner to investigate the financial condition of Santo Domingo , in 1906 also as Secretary of the Minister of Finance of the Dominican Republic used . In the same year Schoen Rich was after the second American intervention in Cuba as Secretary appointed to the provisional government, at the same time he was appointed to the Advisory Law Commission selected, designed the new Cuban law. In 1909 Schoenrich returned to Puerto Rico, where he took over the office of District Judge of Mayagüez, in 1911 he was entrusted with the presidency of the Nicaraguan Mixed Claims Commission in Managua . After a year as a district judge in Humacao, Puerto Rican, he moved to New York City in 1916 , where he joined the law firm Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle as a partner . Otto Schoenrich also acted as an intermediary between the American and Greek governments in 1929 and 1934 .

Memberships

The staunch supporter of the Republicans Schoenrich was a member of the American Society of International Law , the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the American Foreign Law Association, which he temporarily presided over, the Peruvian American Association and the Pan American Society of the United States , which he also previously served as President.

Honors

The internationally recognized legal expert Otto Schoenrich, who stood out in particular for his contributions to Latin America and legal topics, has received several awards, including the Order of the Southern Cross , the Order of the Star of Africa and the National Order of Honor and Merit, the highest order of the state of Haiti . The Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo appointed him Honorary Professor of Law . The University of Havana honored Otto Schoenrich with the award of an honorary doctorate in Social Sciences and Public Law.

Fonts

• Former Senator Burton's trip to South America, 1915, in: Publication (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Division of Intercourse and Education), no.9, The Endowment, Washington, DC, 1915
• The Nicaraguan Mixed Claims Commission, in: The American Journal of International Law, Volume 9, Number 4, American Society of International Law, Washington, DC, Oct., 1915, pp. 858-869.
• Santo Domingo: a country with a future, Macmillan, New York, 1918
• The legacy of Christopher Columbus ; the historic litigations involving his discoveries, his will, his family, and his descendants ... resulting from the discovery of America, AH Clark Co., Glendale, Calif., 1949-50
• Dr. Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante , in: The American Journal of International Law, Volume 45, Number 4, American Society of International Law, Washington, DC, Oct., 1951, pp. 746-749.
• The Civil Code for the Federal District and Territories of Mexico and the Mexican laws on alien landownership, Baker, Voorhis, New York, 1950
• La Comisión Consultiva de Cuba (1906-1909), Revista cubana de derecho público, La Habana, 1951
• Severo Mallet-Prevost, 1860-1948: the concluding chapter of the historical notes & biographical sketches of the American branch of the Mallet family, Privately printed, New York, 1951
• El Alcázar de Diego Coloń: páginas de su historia = History of the Palace of Diego Columbus in Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic, Pol Hnos., Ciudad Trujillo, 1958
• Reminiscences of an itinerant lawyer, Printed by JH Furst Co., Baltimore, 1967

literature

• Alberta Chamberlain Lawrence: Who's who Among North American Authors. : volume III, Golden Syndicate Publishing Company, Los Angeles, 1927, p. 758.
• Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, Inc: The Martindale-Hubbell law directory. : volume II, Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, Inc., New York, 1961, p. 3577.
• The American Bar, the Canadian Bar, the International Bar.: Volume II, RB Forster & Associates, Minneapolis, Minn., 1965, p. 992.
• Who was who in America. : volume VII, 1977-1981 with world notables , Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1981, p. 508.

Web links

• Literature by and about Otto Schoenrich in the bibliographic database WorldCat