Wilhelm Groos (lawyer)

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Wilhelm Groos (born May 23, 1849 in Berlin , † May 28, 1934 in Pforzheim ) was a German lawyer . From 1873 he was in the state service in Baden and was an official director, comparable to a current district administrator .

family

Wilhelm Groos was the son of Karl Mathias Groos, a jewelery manufacturer in Pforzheim, and Sophie née Kämpf. On August 26, 1878, he married Luise, nee von Stoesser (born September 27, 1855 - March 17, 1926), daughter of Franz Ludwig von Stoesser († February 26, 1901 in Freiburg im Breisgau ), real privy councilor and president of the Evangelical Upper Church Council . From this marriage there were five children: Hedwig (born March 15, 1879), Hilde (born May 30, 1883), Herta (born June 29, 1885), Gertrud (born August 3, 1887) and Irmgard (born June 6, 1895 ).

education

Groos attended the Pforzheim Pedagogical Center until 1861 and then from 1861 to 1863 the Lyceum in Stuttgart. From 1863 to 1867 he attended the high school in Karlsruhe , where he graduated from high school in 1867 . First he studied law at the University of Heidelberg from the winter semester 1868/69 , from the summer semester 1869 to the winter semester 1869/70 at the University of Leipzig , then from the summer semester 1870 to the summer semester 1871 at the University of Berlin , and finally in the winter semester 1871/72 Studies with the doctorate to Dr. iur. ( cum laude ) from Heidelberg University.

career

On February 8, 1873, he became a trainee at the Karlsruhe District Court and from September 15 to October 20, 1873 as an assistant at the District and Court Court and then at the Mannheim Public Prosecutor . On January 16, 1874 he became a trainee in the secretariat at the Mannheim District and Court Court and then at the Heidelberg District Office .

Further stations in his professional career:

military service

1870/71 One-year volunteer with the 6th Baden Infantry Regiment No. 114 and participation in the Franco-German War 1870/1871 . Siege of Stensberg and Schlettstadt , semi- disabled due to war injury .

Memberships

Awards

Fonts

  • Hiking trips through the Netherlands and along the language border in Belgium and Luxembourg (National Travel Guide No. 3, published by the Baden Regional Association of the German School Association ), Freiburg 1902
  • Hiking trips along the language borders in Switzerland (national travel guide), Berlin 1908 (publications of the General German School Association for the Preservation of Germanness Abroad, No. 6)
  • History of the Reserve Field Artillery Regiment No. 66 in the World War , Oldenburg 1927 (memorial sheets of German regiments. Troops of the former Prussian contingent, vol. 204)
  • various essays in Der Auslandsdeutsche

literature

  • Bernd Breitkopf: The old districts and their heads of office. The emergence of the districts and offices in what is today the district of Karlsruhe. Biographies of the senior officials and district administrators from 1803 to 1997 . Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 1997, ISBN 3-929366-48-7 , ( Contributions to the history of the district of Karlsruhe 1), pp. 119–121.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 183-184.

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personal data
SURNAME Groos, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1934
Place of death Pforzheim