Viktor Achter (lawyer)
Viktor Achter (born February 8, 1905 in Rheydt ; † August 16, 1981 in Mönchengladbach ) was a German lawyer and university professor and entrepreneur.
Life
Viktor Achter, son of the cloth manufacturer Viktor Achter , attended pre-school in Rheydt from 1911 to 1914. At Easter 1914 he switched to the humanistic high school in Mönchengladbach and passed his Abitur in 1923. He first studied art history , philosophy and music and later law at the universities in Bonn , Munich and Cologne . On August 3, 1927, he passed his first state examination in law. In 1928 he received his doctorate in law under Hans Carl Nipperdey at the University of Cologne with his thesis The delivery business in the German cloth industry .
From 1942 to 1945, Achter was chairman of the steering association Reichsvereinigung Textilveredelung , which was largely independent of the Nazi Ministry of Economics , whose main objective was "the rationalization of the cartel system in the textile finished goods industry, particularly in the merger of existing cartels".
He completed his habilitation in German legal history at the University of Cologne in 1948 and taught there as a private lecturer. In 1952 he was appointed adjunct professor at the University of Cologne.
Achter lived in Mönchengladbach and worked there from 1937 as a textile entrepreneur for the family company Viktor Achter GmbH & Co., Rheydt . He had a law firm in Cologne and worked as a lawyer and criminal defense attorney. From 1958 to 1977 he was President of the Mönchengladbach Chamber of Commerce and Industry .
In 1957 he was appointed Knight of the Papal Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Nicola Cardinal Canali and invested in Cologne on December 7, 1957 by Lorenz Jaeger , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy . He belonged to the Aachen Commandery. He was a Grand Cross Knight of the order.
In June 1992 his extensive library was auctioned at Hauswedell & Nolte in Hamburg, including 16 volumes from the library of Christian Truchseß von Wetzhausen .
He had been married to Lieselotte Höpp since 1933; the marriage had three children.
Honors
- 1957: Accolade as Knight of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem
- 1969: Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Knight of the Papal Order of Gregory
Fonts
- The delivery business in the German cloth industry , Hütter 1929
- From the automatic atonement to punishing the perpetrator = birth of the penalty , Klostermann Frankfurt am Main 1951
- On the origin of God's peace , Scherpe Krefeld 1955
- The trial of Jesus of Nazareth , 1964
- Lectures , Kühlen Mönchengladbach 1977, ISBN 3-87448-096-8
literature
- Library Prof. Dr. Viktor eighth. Catalog - facsimile of the collector's specimen. , 1980
- Hans Hattenhauer: On penance and punishment in the Middle Ages: In memoriam Viktor Achter (1905–1981) , 1983
swell
- Hermann August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? - Volume 21 - page 3 , 1981, p. 3
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Reconstitution of the Memory of Poland: Reichsvereinigung Textilveredelung. In the section "Aktotwórca", Dr. Viktor Achter mentioned as chairman of the Reichsvereinigung Textilveredelung
- ↑ ( Franz Neumann , Behemoth. Structure and Practice de National Socialism 1933-1944 , Frankfurt / Main, Fischer, 1988, p. 629: “The Reichsvereinigung Textilveredelung differs from the other Reich associations because it is least subject to the control of the Ministry of Economic Affairs The main goal is the rationalization of the cartel system in the textile manufacturing industry, especially in the merger of existing cartels - a task successfully solved by this Reichsvereinigung. ")
- ↑ See also the parts of the preserved files of the Reichsvereinigung Textilveredelung in the German Federal Archives: BArch R 10-IV / ... In the inventory description (online) of the Federal Archives, Dr. Eighth mentioned as chairman of the Reichsvereinigung Textilvereinigung.
- ↑ Monika Estermann, Ernst Fischer, Reinhard Wittmann: "Parallel worlds of the book", Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, page 374 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eighth, Viktor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and university professor as well as entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 8, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rheydt |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 16, 1981 |
| Place of death | Mönchengladbach |