Richard Marcus

Richard Marcus (born May 19, 1883 in Posen , † May 2, 1933 in Leipzig ) was a German administrative officer.

Life

Richard Marcus was the son of the merchant Joseph Marcus and his wife Cäcilie geb. Hepner. He attended the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Breslau until his Abitur in 1902 and then studied law and economics at the University of Berlin . After the legal traineeship, he completed his legal preparatory service at the Higher Regional Court in Poznan and the Berlin Higher Regional Court . In 1909 he was with the work of the legal character of the General Synod of the Evangelical Church of Prussia doctorate . After the assessor exam he was engaged in scientific work from 1912 to 1914. From 1914 to 1915 he worked as a research assistant at the Schleswig-Holstein Consistory in Kiel .

From 1915, Marcus worked in local government, first in Berlin and later in Saxony. On August 18, 1919, he became a paid city councilor in Chemnitz (head of the War Economics Office and city counsel ). On July 1, 1920 he became the official captain of Amtshauptmannschaft Chemnitz appointed and on June 1, 1922, the appointment was made to the District Chief of Kreishauptmannschaft Chemnitz . From March 1, 1925, Marcus was Kreishauptmann of the Leipzig district team .

On March 10, 1933, the day the Reichskommissar and SA-Obergruppenführer Manfred von Killinger came to power in Saxony , Marcus was dismissed from his position as district chief. He died soon afterwards on May 2, 1933 in the Leipzig City Hospital St. Jakob under unexplained circumstances.

His brother was the writer Hugo Marcus (1880-1966), who as a Jewish Islam - convert and CEO of the Berlin Mosque of Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement was known.

Fonts

The legal character of the general synod in the Protestant regional church of Prussia. Dissertation. University of Breslau 1909. Sittenfeld, Berlin 1909, OCLC 458076195 .

literature

Degeners who is it? IX. Edition, Berlin 1928, p. 1006
Calendar for the Saxon state officials to the year 1931 . Dresden 1931, pp. 4–5 (short biography)
Hubert Lang: Legal history - Marcus, Richard on hubertlang.de

Individual evidence

↑ Andreas Graul: Modern State and Industrialization: The Central Authorities in the Leipzig District 1835-1943 . In: Sächsisches Staatsarchiv Leipzig: Moving Saxon Region. From the Leipzig district to the administrative district of Leipzig 1547–2000 . (= Publications of the Saxon Archive Administration Series C: Exhibition Catalogs Volume 1 ), Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle / Saale 2001, p. 76 (footnote 81). Unlike usual, the death notice at the registry office was not made by the hospital, but by the Leipzig police headquarters. The cause of death was not given. On May 3, 1933, the Döbelner Anzeiger reported that Marcus had died of heart failure.
^ Gerdien Jonker: The Ahmadiyya Quest for Religious Progress: Missionizing Europe 1900-1965 (= Muslim minorities Volume 19 ). Brill. Leiden and Boston 2016, p. 90 (footnote 117).

personal data
SURNAME	Marcus, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Saxon administrative officer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 19, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH	Poses
DATE OF DEATH	May 2, 1933
Place of death	Leipzig

[1] Andreas Graul: Modern State and Industrialization: The Central Authorities in the Leipzig District 1835-1943 . In: Sächsisches Staatsarchiv Leipzig: Moving Saxon Region. From the Leipzig district to the administrative district of Leipzig 1547–2000 . (= Publications of the Saxon Archive Administration Series C: Exhibition Catalogs Volume 1 ), Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle / Saale 2001, p. 76 (footnote 81). Unlike usual, the death notice at the registry office was not made by the hospital, but by the Leipzig police headquarters. The cause of death was not given. On May 3, 1933, the Döbelner Anzeiger reported that Marcus had died of heart failure.

[2] Gerdien Jonker: The Ahmadiyya Quest for Religious Progress: Missionizing Europe 1900-1965 (= Muslim minorities Volume 19 ). Brill. Leiden and Boston 2016, p. 90 (footnote 117).