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Walther Bacmeister
Walther Bacmeister (also spelled ''Walter''; 21 February 1873 – 14 June 1966) was a German jurist and ornithologist. Biography Bacmeister was descended from the Württemberg line of the Bacmeister family, an old Lower Saxony family with many distinguished members in the fields of medicine and the law. He was born in Niederstetten, the son of Karl Albert Wilhelm Bacmeister (1845–1920) and Auguste Gertz (1845–1929). After completing his Abitur he initially sought a military officer's career, but then decided to study law. After his state exams and trainee years, Bacmeister received an appointment as prosecutor in Heilbronn in 1905. He remained in this post until 1928, interrupted only by his military service with the rank of ''Hauptmann'' on both the Eastern Front of World War I, Eastern and Western Front of World War I, Western Fronts during the First World War. In 1928 he accepted a call to Stuttgart, where he held the office of chief prosecutor until his retirement in 1938. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jurist
A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyses and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal qualification in law and often a legal practitioner. In the United Kingdom the term "jurist" is mostly used for legal academics, while in the United States the term may also be applied to a judge. With reference to Roman law, a "jurist" (in English) is a jurisconsult (''iurisconsultus''). The English term ''jurist'' is to be distinguished from similar terms in other European languages, where it may be synonymous with legal professional, meaning anyone with a professional law degree that qualifies for admission to the legal profession, including such positions as judge or attorney. In Germany, Scandinavia and a number of other countries ''jurist'' denotes someone with a professional law degree, and it may be a protected title, for example in Norway. Thus the term can be applied to attorneys, judges an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
