Walter Drerup

Walter Drerup (born April 20, 1921 in Havixbeck ; † March 9, 2014 in Münster ) was a German lawyer . He was President of the Krefeld Regional Court (1967–1974) and the Münster Regional Court (1974–1986).

Life

Walter Drerup obtained his Abitur in 1939 at the high school for boys at the water tower and then did the Reich Labor Service . He had to interrupt his legal studies at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg in 1941 because he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . After being seriously wounded on the Eastern Front and being discharged from military service, he resumed his studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1943 he passed the first state examination. From 1944 to 1948 he was a trainee lawyer in the Münster regional court district in Westphalia. In 1948 he passed the second state examination, entered the judicial service and worked at the regional court in Bochum and the regional court in Essen , later at the higher regional court in Hamm and in the Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia .

In 1967 Drerup was appointed President of the Krefeld Regional Court , and in 1974 President of the Münster Regional Court in Westphalia . In 1986 he retired.

Drerup was also chairman of the German working committee of the German-Dutch conference of lawyers for many years .

In 1976 Walter Drerup was appointed Knight of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem by Cardinal Grand Master Maximilien Cardinal de Fuerstenberg and invested on April 4, 1976 by Franz Hengsbach , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy . Most recently he was a Grand Officer of the Order.

In 1957 he married the ophthalmologist Margret Drerup.

personal data
SURNAME	Drerup, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and district court president
DATE OF BIRTH	April 20, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH	Havixbeck
DATE OF DEATH	March 9, 2014
Place of death	Muenster