Otto Wilhelm Mönckeberg

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Otto Wilhelm Mönckeberg (born August 2, 1843 in Hamburg ; † June 14, 1893 there ) was a judge , president of the Hamburg citizenship and Hamburg senator.

Life

Mönckeberg grew up in Hamburg, then studied law and received his doctorate in Leipzig in 1866. During his studies he became a member of the Frankonia Heidelberg fraternity in 1863 . He was enrolled as a lawyer in Hamburg on April 16, 1866 and was associated with his fellow student Heinrich Gieschen from 1867 . From September 1871 he was deputy public prosecutor. In 1873 he was accepted into the Hamburg public service as a public prosecutor . Four years later he moved to the lower court and became a judge. In 1881 he was appointed district court director.

Gravestone Otto Wilhelm Mönckeberg , Mönckeberg family grave, Ohlsdorf cemetery

He was elected to the Hamburg parliament in 1880 , as its president from 1885 until his election to the Senate on November 28, 1892 . He was a member of the Senate for almost six months until his death in June 1893.

family

Mönckeberg was a grandson of the Hamburg lawyer and senator Johann Georg Mönckeberg (politician, 1766) (1766–1842), his cousin was the important lawyer and Hamburg mayor Johann Georg Mönckeberg (1839–1908), who was also a member of the Senate. In 1873 he married Antoinie von Melle , the daughter of Senator Emil von Melle and sister of the later Senator Werner von Melle , the marriage remained childless. His mother-in-law was Maria von Melle geb. Geffcken, a sister of Friedrich Heinrich Geffcken and daughter of the Hamburg Senator Heinrich Geffcken .

literature

  • Hamburg Gender Book, Volume 2, DGB Volume 19; Year 1911, p. 249
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , pp. 123-124.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Gerrit Schmidt: The history of the Hamburg legal profession from 1815 to 1879, Hamburg 1989, ISBN 3923725175 , p. 363