Walter Otto (lawyer)

Walter Otto (* 1907 in Herleshausen ; † 1998 ) was a German lawyer.

Career

Otto attended the University of Göttingen from 1928 to 1931, where he studied law and political science . He passed the legal traineeship exam in Celle . In 1932 he received his doctorate. Four years later he passed the assessor examination in Berlin and subsequently became a court assessor . From 1938 he was City Assessor and City Councilor of Stralsund for three years . After that, he was Executive Council , first in Klagenfurt and Kassel , in 1951 then in the Federal Ministry of the Interior . From the following year until 1955 he worked as a senior administrative judge in Koblenz . From April 29, 1955 to March 31, 1972 he was a judge at the Federal Administrative Court .

Honors

• 1972: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Publications (selection)

• Law and justice in reparation. In: trade union monthly magazines , vol. 7 (1956), no. 1, pp. 5–10 ( online ; PDF; 69 kB).
• Farewell to freedom? In: trade union monthly books, vol. 11 (1960), no. 6, pp. 321–334 ( online ; PDF; 139 kB).

literature

• Eberhard Schmidt-Assmann , Dieter Seilner , Günter Hirsch , Gerd-Heinrich Kemper , Hinrich Lehmann-Grube (eds.): Declaration 50 years of the Federal Administrative Court. Heymann, Cologne et al. 2003, ISBN 978-3-452-24052-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Notices from the editors. In: trade union monthly books , vol. 7 (1956), no. 1, p. 64 ( online ; PDF; 10 kB)