Wilhelm Mayer (lawyer)

Wilhelm Mayer (born December 11, 1863 in Munich ; † April 13, 1925 there ) was a German lawyer and writer. He published his literary works under the pseudonym Wilhelm Herbert .

Mayer graduated from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich in 1882 . Because of his background, he was forced to finance his law studies himself by giving tutoring. He passed the assessor examination with distinction. In 1891 he became the third public prosecutor, in 1898 a district judge and in 1904, as a higher regional judge, chairman of the Munich lay judge's court. In this role he led a. a. 1908 the trial of Maximilian Harden against Anton Städele, which caused a sensation throughout Germany as part of the Harden-Eulenburg affair . In addition, he was chairman of the stage arbitration court in Munich. From 1919 until his death he was President of the Munich Regional Court. Because of his liberal judgment practice, he was known as "the good judge" and " comparison mayer".

Under his pseudonym he was an employee of the Fliegende Blätter and wrote poems, short stories and humor, as well as books for young people, detective novels and plays, one of which was even performed in the Residenztheater .

Wilhelm Mayer was buried in the Old Munich South Cemetery (grave location 29-10-2).

Located in Munich's Au was Wilhelm Herbert path named after him.

Works

Young blood. Photographische Union, Munich 1893, OCLC 954478852 .
The corpus delikti and other humoresques. Braun & Schneider, Munich 1913.
German war anthem 1914 "Now let's thresh them". Music by Kurt Hennig (op.16). Rokotnitz, Berlin 1914, OCLC 930992377 .
It applies! German war songs and poems 1914–1915. Braun & Schneider, Munich 1915.
Stasi. Novella. Mignon, Dresden 1916.
The dark power of love. A mountain story. Vogel & Vogel, Leipzig 1916.
Other times. Novel. German book workshops, Dresden 1918.
Steps behind him. Detective novel. Moewig & Höffner, Dresden / Leipzig 1920.
Mouse and Molli. A girl's story in seven pranks based on Wilhelm Busch. 1920. New edition: Esslinger, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-480-23202-4 .
The sunstroke and other stories. Phoebus, Munich 1920.
For a day. Novel. JC Huber, Diessen 1921.
The call in the night. Detective novel. 1922 ( online at Wikimedia Commons ).
Stand up. 1922.
Twenty-five brides. A picaresque novel. Parcus, Munich 1923.
The Spitzweg-Pfeiferl and other old Munich stories. Knorr & Hirth, Munich 1923.

Web links

Wikisource: Wilhelm Herbert - Sources and full texts

Literature by and about Wilhelm Herbert in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Works by Wilhelm Mayer in the Gutenberg-DE project
Image by Wilhelm Mayer at Getty Images

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Werner Ebnet: You lived in Munich: Biographies from eight centuries. Allitera Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86906-744-5 , p. 396 ( limited preview in Google book search).
^ Wilhelm Kosch: German Literature Lexicon . The 20th century. Volume 17: Henze - Hettwer. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023693-4 , Sp. 37-38 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
↑ Annual report on the K. Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich 1881/82.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Karsten Hecht: The Harden processes. Criminal proceedings, the public and politics in the German Empire. Dissertation, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, 1997, pp. 346-348.
^ Wilhelm Kosch: German Theater Lexicon . Volume 2. Kleinmayr, Klagenfurt and Vienna 1960, p. 1396.
↑ Peter Winzen : The end of imperial glory: the scandal processes surrounding the homosexual advisers of Wilhelm II. 1907–1909. Böhlau, Köln Weimar 2010, ISBN 978-3-412-20630-7 , p. 231 ( limited preview in Google book search).
↑ Erich Mühsam : The good judge. In: Non-political memories. ( Full text online in the Gutenberg project).
↑ William Herbert at Alte-Krimis.de ( Memento of 25 April 2013, Internet Archive )
↑ Josef Walter König: The grave sites of German-speaking poets and thinkers: a lexical guide. 2nd Edition. Corian, Meitingen 2003, ISBN 3-89048-320-8 , p. 231 ( limited preview in Google book search).
^ Alter Südfriedhof Munich online ( Memento from January 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
^ Wilhelm-Herbert-Weg in the Munich Wiki
^ Aiga Klotz: Children's and youth literature in Germany 1840–1950. Volume II: G-K. Springer, 2016, ISBN 978-3-476-03317-8 , p. 215 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

personal data
SURNAME	Mayer, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Herbert, Wilhelm (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	December 11, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich
DATE OF DEATH	April 13, 1925
Place of death	Munich

[Ebnet-1] A ^b Werner Ebnet: You lived in Munich: Biographies from eight centuries. Allitera Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86906-744-5 , p. 396 ( limited preview in Google book search).

[2] Wilhelm Kosch: German Literature Lexicon . The 20th century. Volume 17: Henze - Hettwer. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-023693-4 , Sp. 37-38 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

[3] Annual report on the K. Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich 1881/82.

[Hecht-4] Karsten Hecht: The Harden processes. Criminal proceedings, the public and politics in the German Empire. Dissertation, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, 1997, pp. 346-348.

[5] Wilhelm Kosch: German Theater Lexicon . Volume 2. Kleinmayr, Klagenfurt and Vienna 1960, p. 1396.

[Winzen-6] Peter Winzen : The end of imperial glory: the scandal processes surrounding the homosexual advisers of Wilhelm II. 1907–1909. Böhlau, Köln Weimar 2010, ISBN 978-3-412-20630-7 , p. 231 ( limited preview in Google book search).

[7] Erich Mühsam : The good judge. In: Non-political memories. ( Full text online in the Gutenberg project).

[8] William Herbert at Alte-Krimis.de ( Memento of 25 April 2013, Internet Archive )

[9] Josef Walter König: The grave sites of German-speaking poets and thinkers: a lexical guide. 2nd Edition. Corian, Meitingen 2003, ISBN 3-89048-320-8 , p. 231 ( limited preview in Google book search).

[10] Alter Südfriedhof Munich online ( Memento from January 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive )

[11] Wilhelm-Herbert-Weg in the Munich Wiki

[12] Aiga Klotz: Children's and youth literature in Germany 1840–1950. Volume II: G-K. Springer, 2016, ISBN 978-3-476-03317-8 , p. 215 ( limited preview in the Google book search).