Walter Reimers
Walter Reimers (born August 17, 1913 in Altona ; † December 8, 2010 in Hamburg-Altona ) was a German judge .
Life
As the son of an architect, Reimers attended the Altona secondary school. After graduating from high school, he studied law at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin and the Georg August University in Göttingen from 1931 . Since 1931 he was a member of the Corps Borussia Tübingen . He did his legal clerkship in the area of the Higher Regional Court of Celle , where he also passed the assessor exam.
1935 in Göttingen for Dr. iur. after receiving his doctorate , he became a district judge in 1940. During the Second World War he served in the Navy , most recently as a first lieutenant . In the post-war period he was appointed secretary of a committee for university reform by the British military government in 1946. This activity in turn led him in 1950 to the board of the University Advisory Board formed by the Hamburg Senate , which he took over as chairman in 1954. He brought about the establishment of a theological faculty at the University of Hamburg .
Since 1950 he has been a member of the Higher Regional Court, he was President of the Senate in 1955 and Vice-President of the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in 1964 . He was also Vice President of the Hamburg Higher Administrative Court and the Hamburg Constitutional Court . In view of his particular interest in traineeship training, he had been a member since 1948 and from 1964 chairman of the Hamburg Judicial Examination Office as well as deputy chairman of the joint examination office of the states of Bremen , Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein .
In 1969 Walter Reimers was just inferior to his competitor Walter Stiebeler in the election of the OLG president . In addition, he was chairman of the Hamburg Medical Professional Court from 1970, 1965-1976 member of the Court of Honor for Lawyers and 1965-1974 chairman of the board of the Hamburg Lawyers Association and headed the State Liability Commission of the Dt. Legal day. He was a member of the deputation of the German Lawyers' Association from 1949–1957 and 1966–1974. Reimers retired in December 1978.
Reimers was in second marriage with the judge Hanne-Marie geb. Dammann married and had a daughter from his first marriage. Since 1964 he was a member of the Academic Club in Hamburg . a. Member of the Übersee Club and the Rotary Club Hamburg.
Honors
- Iron Cross 2nd class
- Navy flaka sign
- 1983 Emil von Sauer Prize
- 1993 honorary member of the Corps Borussia Tübingen
literature
- Heinrich Ackermann, Jan Albers, Karl August Bettermann (eds.): From the Hamburg legal life. Walter Reimers on his 65th birthday. Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1979, ISBN 3-428-04460-6 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 21/597.
- ^ Announcements of the Hamburg Judges Association 3/93
- ↑ Directory of the Hamburger Juristen Society ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Ackermann, Albers, Bettermann, in: From the Hamburger Rechtsleben, 1979, p. VI.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Reimers, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German judge |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th August 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Altona |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 8, 2010 |
| Place of death | Hamburg-Altona |