Woldemar Horn

Woldemar Horn (born September 9, 1864 in Plötz ; † 1945 ) was a German lawyer and most recently governor of Togo .

Life

The son of a landowner in Plötz studied law in Heidelberg , Berlin and Halle and became a member of the Corps Vandalia in Heidelberg in 1884 . In 1888 he passed the trainee exam in Naumburg . In 1893 he became a court assessor in Berlin, then in Osterwiek and Greußen. Horn joined the colonial department of the Foreign Office and in 1895 became a laborer in the governorate of the German protected area of ​​Cameroon, in 1899 district judge in German South West Africa , in 1900 deputy governor of Togo and on December 1, 1902, governor of Togo. On May 11, 1905, he resigned as governor and was given retirement on allegations of negligent homicide of a prisoner.

During the First World War, Horn was a captain and leader of a storm battery, and later a heavy ammunition column.

literature

• The members of Vandalia zu Heidelberg as of September 29, 1935 . Berlin 1935, p. 175.