Walter Hasche

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Walter Hasche, 1989

Walter Adolph Hasche (* December 23, 1909 in Hamburg ; † October 5, 2002 ) was a lawyer , bank director and founder of a well-known law firm in Hamburg.

Studies and war

Walter Hasche was the son of the Hamburg businessman Adolph Theodor Hasche (1871–1966) and his wife Elsa, née Schmidt (1876–1955). After graduating from Matthias-Claudius-Gymnasium , he studied law in Tübingen and Hamburg . In Tübingen he became a member of the Saxonia student union in 1928. In 1932, he put the state examination and received his doctorate in 1933 at the Hamburg professor of constitutional and international law and later university rector Rudolf von Laun Dr. jur. on the legal status of the newly created legal figure of the Reich Governor . In 1935 he completed basic training in the navy and passed the assessor exam in 1936 . He initially joined the Hamburg judicial service, but in 1938, under the patronage of the shipowner John T. Essberger, he joined the Association of German Shipowners , where he initially worked as a lawyer and then as the managing director of the Reichsverkehrsgruppe Seeschiffahrt affiliated there. From April 1943 he was active in a flak battery, from January 1944 until the end of the war, Hasche served in the High Command of the Navy , most recently in the rank of lieutenant.

Working life

In August 1945, Hasche was admitted to the Hamburg bar. After several criminal defenses in the context of the British military court trials on war crimes taking place in the Hamburg Curiohaus , he soon concentrated his professional focus on advising shipping companies. In 1951 he took Dr. Hans-Christian Albrecht as a partner, 1953 also Dr. Vincent Fischer-Zernin . This is how the law firm came into being , which later became known as "Hasche Albrecht Fischer", grew steadily and, following various mergers, is now one of the largest commercial law firms in Germany as CMS Hasche Sigle .

From 1953 to 1955, Hasche was on a board similar basis in the shipping company Hamburg Südamerikanischer Dampfschifffahrts-Gesellschaft AG ( Hamburg Süd ). With effect from January 1, 1956, Hasche was appointed a member of the board of directors of Deutsche Schiffsbeleihungsbank AG (later: Deutsche Schiffsbank AG). Until 1977 he worked for the bank - largely as spokesman for the board of directors. During his time at the Schiffsbank, Hasche pursued a risk-controlled growth of the institute under the catchphrase “expansion made to measure”. As a shipping agent as well as a banker, he remained active as a lawyer.

Functions

Walter Hasche was involved in various functions on a voluntary basis.

1953 to 1957 he worked on the board of the Hanseatic Bar Association. From 1967 to 1975 he was chairman of the German Association for International Maritime Law ; until 1985 its deputy chairman.

From 1945 to 1995 he was chairman of the board, then until his death honorary chairman of the August Heerlein Foundation , which he transferred to the Heerlein-Zindler Foundation and which operates a retirement home in the Hamburg district of St. Georg . He was also chairman of the Heerlein Family Foundation and the Heerlein and Dürst Charitable Foundation .

From 1974 to 1979 he was the first chairman of the German High Seas Sports Association HANSA e. V.

Hasche was also a member of the Hamburg Parliament for eight years - from 1953 to 1957 ( 3rd electoral term ) and from 1966 to 1970 ( 6th electoral term ). He belonged to the CDU and was elected to the list of the Hamburg Bloc in 1953, an electoral party made up of members of the Hamburg regional associations of the CDU , FDP , DP and GB / BHE .

family

His marriage to Ursula, b. Pillet (1919–1968), divorced shortly after the war. On June 4, 1949, Hasche married the widowed Elisabeth ("Isa") Clausen, b. by Nathusius (1920–1994) in Hamburg. A brother of his second wife was the officer Mark Heinrich von Nathusius , the husband of her sister Ehrengard was the officer Bern von Baer . Hasche had four children. He was buried in the cemetery in Hamburg-Nienstedten .

Publications

  • The Reichsstatthalter in the development of the Reichsmittelinstanz , dissertation, Triltsch, Würzburg 1938
  • Correspondent shipowner and contract shipowner , Hansa 1952, p. 333
  • Liability issues within the shipping company , Hansa 1952, p. 1344
  • Erfde-Hamburg-Übersee, contributions to a chronicle of the Hasche family , Hamburg 1987
  • British occupation jurisdiction in Hamburg 1945–48 , in: AVR 26 (1988)
  • 100 years of August-Heerlein-Stift , Hamburg 1993
  • Looking in the mirror , Hamburg 2000

literature

  • Law firm Hasche Albrecht Fischer (ed.): Liber amicorum for Walter Hasche . Hamburg 1989.
  • Pöllath , Saenger (Ed.): 200 years of business lawyers in Germany . Nomos, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8329-4446-9 , pages 13, 20, 23f., 51, 228

References and comments

  1. ↑ John Theodor Leonard Essberger (1886–1959) founded the shipping company Deutsche Afrika-Linien, which is still in existence today .
  2. ↑ From 1946 to 1948 the Curiohaus trials of the British military government took place in the largely undamaged Curiohaus
  3. ↑ According to personal details / anniversaries , under: Chronicle at: Page no longer available , search in web archives: ZEIT Online@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.zeit.de
  4. ↑ According to Dr Hasche turns 65 . In: Hamburger Abendblatt from December 23, 1974
  5. ↑ According to the article Expansion nach Maß , in: Hamburger Abendblatt , June 11, 1971
  6. ^ Annual spring meeting - Maritime Law Association of the United States Document , Maritime Law Association of the United States (Ed.), 1975, p. 6549
  7. ↑ The German Association for International Maritime Law promotes the development of uniform international maritime law, in accordance with the website of the association
  8. ↑ The foundation named after August Heerlein (1804–1878) was founded in 1893 by his widow Maria Elisabeth and daughter Anna Elisabeth and Caspar Heerlein for the benefit of impoverished women and the chronically ill
  9. ↑ The Charlotte and Werner Zindler Foundation , founded in 1972 by the businessman Werner Zindler , which was supposed to build and operate a retirement home, turned out to be not financially strong enough to implement the project. The property was the result after the dissolution of Stiftungauf August Heerlein Foundation transferred - after which the name was changed to Heerlein- and Zindler Foundation took place
  10. ↑ The “Zindler House” was built in 1981 at Koppel 17 in the Hamburg district of St. Georg as a retirement and nursing home, according to Website of the retirement home
  11. ↑ The Ursula-Dürst Charitable Foundation was merged with the Heerlein Foundation to form the Heerlein and Dürst Charitable Foundation in 1928 as a result of the inflation . Article: The “mild private residential foundations” (PDF) In: Der lachende Drache - district newspaper for St. Georg , 10/2005, p. 6
personal data
SURNAME Hasche, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hasche, Walter Adolph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (Hamburg Block), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 2002
Place of death Hamburg