Walter Lange (lawyer)

Walter Lange (1950)

Walter Lange (born December 26, 1904 in Riga ; † May 24, 1980 in Bomlitz ) was a German-Baltic judge. He became known as a hunter and student historian .

Life

As a German Balte , Lange attended the Tideböhl Private High School in Riga and the Municipal German High School (New Humanist Department). After graduating from high school in 1924, he enrolled at the Law University of Latvia . He has been a fencer at the Fraternitas Baltica since autumn and was accepted into the corps on February 14, 1925. In 1926 he moved to the University of Leipzig , where he was elected to the board of the general student committee. In Leipzig he was first chairman of the Association of Studying Balts and member of the board of the Central Association of German Students Abroad in Germany. In 1928 he was promoted to Dr. iur. PhD.

Riga

From May 1928 to January 1929 he was a junior candidate for a court position (trainee lawyer) in Riga. From February to May 1929 he was able to serve in the Latvian armed forces . Then he was until May 1930 at the Riga Higher Military Court . From June 1930 to March 1931 he was assistant to the legal advisor of the Riga Chamber of Commerce. In April 1931 he graduated from Riga with a Magister iuris . In the same month he went to Edwin Magnus as an assistant . During trade fairs he was an interpreter . He was admitted to the Latvian Bar Association in September 1932 as an assistant to the sworn attorney V. von Brzeziński . From the same month on, the German legation in Riga seized him as a legal officer. As a member of the German Hunters Association in Latvia, he was chairman of the hunting section and the honorary council from 1933 to 1939 . The German hunters elected him an honorary member in 1937. As a sworn attorney, he ran a law firm in Riga from January 1938.

Relocation

He came to the German Reich in December 1939 when the Baltic Germans were resettled . In January 1940 he entered the judicial service, first at the Pasewalk District Court , then from April 1940 as an assistant judge at the Hohensalza District Court . From December 1940 he was briefly in the Air Force (Wehrmacht) and in the Reich Commissioner Ostland . He then came to the Army (Wehrmacht) for the 9th Squadron of the 4th Kuban Cossack Regiment. Most recently, he was a Fahnenjunker NCO . In April 1941 he became a scheduled regional judge at the Hohensalza regional court . In February 1945 he was wounded during the Battle of Poznan and taken prisoner by the Soviets . He was sent to several gulags in northern Russia, to the Arkhangelsk prison (one year), to the Solovetsky Islands and to pits in the Donets Basin (winter 1948). While in captivity in 1949 he was sentenced to 25 years of forced labor due to a collective guilt decree by Josef Stalin because he had served in the 1st Cossack Division . The fact that he came home in April 1950, according to his detailed captivity report, was due to the fact that, as a writer who knew Russian, he had entered himself on the release list - and could no longer be removed from the mass transport. In Göttingen and Wuppertal he spent half a year in hospitals for returning home. From November 1950 to July 1955 he was at the district court of Mülheim an der Ruhr district judge z. Wv. And judges at the Duisburg Regional Court in various civil chambers. From August 1955 he was a regular local judge at the district court of Oberhausen .

retirement

Shortly after his retirement on June 1, 1964, he bought a plot of land in Benefeld , Fallingbostel district . With his wife he created "a paradise for humans and animals" there. Old and young Baltic Germans came to the house celebrations; the young brought Lange to Curonia Goettingensis in 1960 as a traditional philistine . His old ornithologist friend Nikolaus Heinrich von Transehe lived nearby in Honerdingen .

family

Lange married on June 21, 1931 Helene Baronesse von der Osten-Sacken (* 1904), daughter of the Mitau district court president Otto Baron von der Osten-Sacken († 1929) and his wife Nina, née. Fedorov († 1937). The son Dr. phil. Peer Lange emerged. The marriage ended in divorce in 1950. Lange's second marriage was on December 23, 1954 with Rosmarie Schmidt (born March 11, 1926). Her parents are the lawyer and notary Dr. iur. Georg Schmidt and his wife Margaret born. Noble von Metnitz († 1946).

Works

Lange wrote publications on inheritance and civil procedural issues in Latvian (Riga 1937). He was an employee at the collective work on German jurisdiction . In West Germany he published numerous articles in German and foreign hunting magazines. He wrote several books on hunting in European countries. He gained a high reputation in the Association for Corporate Student History Research.

Then and now

• The student duel among the German students in Dorpat and Riga . Vol. 2 (1957), pp. 91-100.
• To the downfall of the Rigian boy state . Vol. 12 (1967), pp. 117-123.
• About the Fraternitas Marcomannia zu Riga from the semesters 1902/1 to 1918 / II and from Riga's university life . 22: 129-150 (1977).
• A student letter from 1866 from Riga . 22: 151-155 (1977).
• About the boys' court . 23: 207-214 (1978).
• The corps list of the Fraternitas Marcomannia zu Riga (1902–1918) and its members of the general association (fencing bodists) . 23: 215-230 (1978).
• The pistol duel in Dorpat and Riga . 25: 149-167 (1980).
• Relations between Nevania St. Petersburg and the Fraternita Baltica in Riga . 26: 173-184 (1981).

Baltic notebooks

• Foreign relations of Riga's German students in the years 1863–1878 . Vol. 11 (1965)
• The relations between the Rigas University and the state in the period 1862–1887 . Vol. 13 (1967)
• Pike sting - combined with capercaillie balz . Vol. 14 (1968)
• The emergency aid sign . Vol. 15 (1969)
• About the hunting music and hunting jewelry in the Baltic countries . Vol. 18 (1972)
• Rigian student letters from the last decade of the last century . Vol. 21 (1975-1977)

Goettingen Baltic Corps sheets

• Göttingen and the so-called Baltic fencing style . 1st year, issue 4, October 1960
• Student corporations in Finland . 2nd year, issue 2/3, August 1961.
• The beginning of the technical age, the establishment of the Baltic Polytechnic and the Fraternitas Baltica in Riga . 5th year, issue 2, October 1964.
• About the university life in Riga at the turn of the century and the foundation of the Fraternitas Marcomannia in 1902 . No. 32, November 1976.
• Letters from Riga as a student in 1869 and 1870 .
  • I - No. 32, November 1976.
  • II - No. 33, June 1977
• Celebrities on scale :
  • I - No. 34, November 1977
  • II - No. 35, June 1978
  • III - No. 36, December 1978
• The royal crypt scandal . No. 37, June 1979

Others

• Game and hunting in Latvia . Publisher Harro von Hirschheydt 1970.
• Dr. Nikolaus v. Tranny . Journal of Hunting Science 16 (1970)
• Chronicle of the duels between members of the Fraternitas Baltica and the Rubonia in Riga from 1877 to 1938 and personal information . Rubonia Circular No. 88 (1978)
• The effects of the intellectual struggles of color students at the German universities on corps students and the German student body in the Baltic States . Lecture to Kösener Corps students in Mühlheim / Ruhr (around 1957)
• Events from 1926–1938 . Festschrift of the Fraternitas Baltica
• About the Chargierten-Convent (CC) in Riga since the beginning of the admission of non-German corps and the relations with the Fraternitas Baltica , attached to the circulars of the Fraternitas Baltica:

1. General information and references .
2. The Russian or international Corps Borysthenia in Riga from 1876–1880 .
3. The Polish Corps Arconia in Riga from 1879–1915 .
4. The Latvian country team Corps Talavija from 1900–1939 .

• The relations of Nevania St. Petersburg to the Fraternitas Baltica in Riga , attached to the circular 2/1978 of the Fraternitas Baltica.
• Old lad glory in Finland , printed in circular 1/1960 of the Frat. Baltica and in the Göttingen Baltic Corps-Blätter, 2nd year, issue 2/3, August 1961.

Unknown publication dates

• The pistol duel in current affairs at the Fraternitas Baltica in Riga (1865–1938) .
• About the customs of the corps students in Riga .
• The penetration of National Socialist ideas into the German student body in Riga and the position of the Fraternitas Baltica on this .
• The timpani and mensur being .

literature

• Lange, Walter , in: Friedhelm Golücke : Author's lexicon for student and university history. SH-Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89498-130-X . Pp. 188-190.
• 546. Walter Lange , in: Album of the compatriots of the Fraternitas Baltica . Aschaffenburg 1961.
• Obituary, Göttinger Baltische Corpsblätter No. 40, October 1980, p. 2.
• Herbert Kater: In memoriam Dr. jur. Walter M. Lange. Fraternitas Baltica et Curonia Goettingensis, District Court Councilor a. D., 1904–1980 , based on an obituary by Herbert Mast. Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corps Student History Research, Vol. 26 (1981), pp. 9-12.

Web links

Commons : Walter Lange  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dissertation: About the agricultural legislation of the Baltic border states and the legal nature of expropriation according to Baltic provincial law .
2. ↑ Master's thesis: Killing at the request of the killed according to § 460 of the Latvian Penal Code .
3. ^ Long was on December 29, 1949 by the military tribunal of the troops of the Ministry of the Interior (MWD) of the Voroshilovgrad district according to § 17 d. StGB d. RSFSR u. of § 1 the decree d. Presidium d. Supreme Soviet d. USSR sentenced to 25 years of ITL (corrective labor camp) on April 19, 1943.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Obituary. H. hangover
5. ↑ Walter Lange (VfcG)