Wilhelm Modersohn (lawyer)

Wilhelm Modersohn (born March 29, 1859 , in Lippstadt ; † March 12, 1935 ) was a German lawyer .

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From 1876 he studied law in Tübingen, Leipzig and Berlin. In 1870 he passed the first and in 1884 the second state examination in law . He then worked as a district judge in Tecklenburg in 1887, as a district judge at the Münster district court , in 1900 as a higher regional judge in Hamm, in 1911 as president of the senate, and finally as president of the regional court.

From 1899 he gave lectures on behalf of the Ministry of Justice in Münster for lawyers and administrative officials on the introduction to the civil code . From 1902 he worked as a commissioned lecturer for German and Prussian civil law, bankruptcy law and voluntary jurisdiction at the University of Münster . In 1906 he was awarded the title of professor there by the law faculty and in 1914 an honorary doctorate . In 1913 he was released from teaching because he had been appointed chairman of the commission for the first legal examination for trainee lawyers at the Hamm Higher Regional Court.

His final resting place is in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf .

family

He belongs to the Modersohn family of artists. His parents were Wilhelm Modersohn (1832–1918), master builder in Lippstadt, Soest and Münster, and Luise Heidebrink (1833–1905). His brothers were Otto Modersohn (1865–1943), landscape painter and co-founder of the Worpswede artist colony, married to the painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907) and Ernst Modersohn (1870–1948), pastor and writer.

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• Lectures on the Civil Code given at the Royal Academy of Münster in 1901 ; Munster 1901

literature

• Lieselotte Stegeling: Lawyers in Münster . A contribution to the history of the law and political science faculty of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster / Westphalia, Münster 1999, pp. 123 and 141