Theodor Meyer (judge)

Overturned tombstone of the Imperial Court Councilor Theodor Ludwig Meyer on the Südfriedhof Leipzig (leveled in 2016)

Theodor Ludwig Meyer (born September 2, 1853 in Edenkoben , † July 13, 1936 in Leipzig ) was a German judge .

Life

Professional background

Theodor Meyer was sworn in to the Bavarian sovereign in 1876. In 1880 he was appointed public prosecutor . In 1887 he became III. Prosecutor . He became a magistrate in 1889. A year later he was promoted to second public prosecutor. In 1891 he became a district judge and in 1898 a public prosecutor at the higher regional court . He became a higher regional judge in 1901.

In 1906 he came to the Reichsgericht from the Zweibrücken Higher Regional Court , after converting from Judaism to Christianity four years earlier , thus “ removing this obstacle to his promotion ”. There was as a judge in VI. Civil Senate active. He retired in 1923 and was buried in the Südfriedhof Leipzig after his death .

He was a member of the Corps Rhenania Würzburg .

family

Theodor Meyer married Hermine Eleonore David on May 3, 1888 in Frankenthal (Palatinate) , who was born on July 15, 1869 in Frankenthal (Palatinate). From this marriage there were three children:

• Maria Regina, married shoemaker (born March 5, 1890 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ; † March 14, 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp ), holds a doctorate in chemistry
• Elise Franziska (born April 12, 1892 in Zweibrücken , † October 26, 1972 in London ) holds a doctorate in general medicine.
• Hedwig Luise (born February 29, 1896 in Zweibrücken, † February 25, 1977 in Freiburg im Breisgau ), doctorate in general medicine.

After the husband's death, his widow moved from Leipzig to Ludwigshafen am Rhein. When her deportation to Theresienstadt concentration camp was imminent, she committed suicide on July 18, 1942. Since the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein, where she died, refused to give her a grave, she was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Mannheim , even though all of the Meyer family members were Protestant.

source

• Adolf Lobe : Fifty Years of the Reich Court on October 1, 1929 . Berlin 1929, p. 373.
• Paul Theobald: Jewish fellow citizens in Frankenthal with the districts of Eppstein and Flomersheim from 1800 to 1940 , issue: January 2016.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Date and place according to the webpage of RA Hubert Lang Leipzig ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 21, 2011. 
2. ↑ Alemannia Judaica: Zweibrücken: Texts / reports on the Jewish history of the city , citing an article from the “Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums” of April 6, 1906 about Meyer, accessed on June 21, 2011.
3. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 209 , 290.

4. Death certificate from the registry office of the city of Leipzig