Otto Steengrafe

Otto Ludwig Steengrafe (born July 1, 1877 in Bremen ; † January 3, 1948 in Bremen) was a German lawyer and politician and member of the Bremen Citizenship ( DVP , Bremen Working Group).

biography

Steengrafe was the son of a captain and inspector for the Bremen insurance company. After attending grammar school in Bremen, he studied medicine and then law in Erlangen and Göttingen . During his studies in Erlangen he became a member of the Bubenreuther fraternity in 1896 . After his exams in 1900 and 1904 and his doctorate to become Dr. iur. he worked as a lawyer in Bremen from 1904 to 1906 before becoming a judge at the Bremen District Court in 1906 . In 1912 he became an assessor at the Bremen Regional Court . He participated in the First World War from 1916 to 1918 as a judge-martial in the field.

From 1920 to 1930 he belonged to the Bremen citizenship , first for the German People's Party , then from 1927 for the Bremen Working Group. He was a member of the Bremen Kirchentag.

In 1924 he became regional court director and from 1925 president of the administrative court of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . From 1927 he chaired the Bremen Regional Labor Court . In the Second World War he was used as an army judge from 1939 to 1945. Released for a short time in 1945, he was re-admitted in 1946.

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 487.