Wolfgang Mersmann
Wolfgang Felix Walter Mersmann (born June 19, 1902 in Kiel , † September 25, 1973 in Bad Kissingen ) was a German tax lawyer and President of the Federal Fiscal Court .
Life
From 1930 Mersmann worked in the Hamburg financial administration , most recently as chief government director . In the Second World War he served as a state rifleman in the Wehrmacht . In Hamburg he was also chairman of the Goethe Society until 1948 when he joined the emerging West German financial administration in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe .
From 1948 to 1949 he worked in the Department of Finance of the United Economic Area (Bizone) in Bad Homburg, where as deputy head of Division III (customs duties, fiscal monopolies , excise , possession and transfer taxes ). From 1949 to 1962 he was a civil servant in the Federal Ministry of Finance , where from 1950 to 1962 he was head of Department IV (property and transaction taxes). After all, he was President and Judge of the Federal Fiscal Court from May 21, 1962 to June 30, 1970.
Together with the then President of the Bavarian Lawyers' Association, lawyer Fritz Ostler , Mersmann was responsible for the establishment of the Munich Legal Society on January 1, 1966.
Awards
- Honorary doctorate
- Bavarian Order of Merit
- 1970: Large Cross of Merit with star and shoulder ribbon
literature
- Johann Heinrich Kumpf: Mersmann, Wolfgang. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 176 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Wolfgang Mersmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mersmann, Wolfgang |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mersmann, Wolfgang Felix Walter (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German tax lawyer and President of the Federal Fiscal Court |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 19, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kiel |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 25, 1973 |
| Place of death | Bad Kissingen |