Otto Stürken (lawyer)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brief portrait of Otto Stürken in 1916

Wilhelm Otto Nicolas Stürken (born December 10, 1856 in Hamburg ; † May 21, 1923 in Blankenese ) was a German administrative lawyer. He was police chief of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.

Life

As the son of the Hamburg merchant Nicolas Stürken , Stürken attended the Johanneum School of Academics . After graduating from high school, he began to study law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität ; he actually served as a one-year volunteer with the Hussar Regiment "King Wilhelm I." (1st Rheinisches) No. 7 . In 1878 he was reciprocated in the Corps Palatia Bonn . He moved to the Eberhard Karls University and was still active in the Corps Suevia Tübingen in 1878 . As an inactive , he finally went to the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . In 1882 he became a trainee lawyer with the public prosecutor in Hamburg, and in 1886 an assessor . After holding positions as a district judge and examining magistrate, Stürken joined the police department in 1893 as a department head at the welfare police. In 1906 he became chief of the criminal police and finally in 1916 police chief . Under Stürken's leadership, the January strike in Hamburg in 1918 was suppressed without any strike demands being met.

Stürken was married to Ellen Hesse, daughter of the Commerce Councilor George Heinrich Hesse. The couple had five children. Stürken's wife inherited the Hessepark in Blankenese from her father . Her eldest son Otto Stürken inherited the park and sold it to the Blankenese community in 1926. Stürken's sister Emma was married to the architect Hugo Stammann . He was a member of the master builder association for the Hamburg town hall and son of the architect Franz Georg Stammann .

See also

swell

  • German Gender Book , Vol. 200. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1996.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 14/435; 130/300.
  2. ^ Volker Ullrich: The January strike in Hamburg, Kiel and Bremen . Journal of the Association for Hamburg History 71 (1985), pp. 61–65.
personal data
SURNAME Sturks, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stürken, Wilhelm Otto Nicolas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1923
Place of death Hamburg