Walter Meyerhoff

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Walter Meyerhoff (born September 25, 1890 in Duderstadt ; † August 20, 1977 in Göttingen ) was a German judge and CDU politician .

Life

Meyerhoff studied law at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau, Munich and Münster in Westphalia. After a short time from 1920 as a judge in Cologne, the Catholic became a judge at the Göttingen Regional Court in 1923 . From 1933 he was no longer included in promotions during the Nazi era because of his Jewish grandfather. His basic political views and his beliefs brought him considerable personal difficulties until 1945. In particular , he was reproached for a large donation for the construction of the St. Paulus Church in Göttingen and for his involvement in its parish . After 1945 he was president of the regional court in Göttingen until he retired in 1958. After retiring, he became involved in local politics for the CDU and was a member of the Göttingen city council from 1961 to 1976 and first mayor of the city from 1968 to 1973. He held several honorary positions and was chairman of the Handel Society in Göttingen from 1931 to 1976 . He had been an honorary citizen of the Georg-August-Universität since 1959 and an honorary citizen of the city of Göttingen since 1970. In the upper Herzberger Landstrasse, on the Hainberg just below the Rohn , one of the Göttingen memorial plaques commemorates him.

Works

  • In memoriam Fritz Lehmann : (May 17, 1904 - March 30, 1956) . German publishing house for music, Leipzig 1957.
  • Ten years of reconstruction of the judiciary: collection of the decisions of the civil appeal and appeal chambers of the regional court in Göttingen 1945–1955 . With the members of the chambers, ed. by Walter Meyerhoff. Göttingen, 1955.
  • The old crown: sagas and ballads . Goettingen 1952.
  • The Magnus legend . Narrative. Christophorus, Freiburg i. Br. 1950.
  • The child of the world and the servant of eternal wisdom . Mystical sonnets. Celle 1947.
  • Walter Meyerhoff (Ed.): Göttingen Handel Festival 1920–1970: 50 years of the Göttingen Handel Festival . Festschrift. Bärenreiter, Kassel, Basel, Paris, London 1970.
  • Walter Meyerhoff and Horst-Peter Hesse (eds.): Göttingen Handel Festival 1974 . Program. Goettingen 1974.

literature

  • Dietrich Denecke , Helga-Maria Kühn (ed.): Göttingen. History of a university town . 3 volumes. Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1987–2002, ISBN 3-525-36196-3 .
  • Walter Nissen, Christina Prauss, Siegfried Schütz: Göttingen memorial plaques . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-525-39161-7 , p. 150 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudolf von Thadden, Günter J. Trittel (ed.), Dietrich Denecke: Göttingen: From the Prussian Mittelstadt to the southern Lower Saxony city 1866–1989 . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-525-36198-X . ( Google Books )
personal data
SURNAME Meyerhoff, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German judge and politician of the CDU
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Duderstadt
DATE OF DEATH 20th August 1977
Place of death Goettingen