Georg Quabbe (10 March 1887 – 17 July 1950) was a German lawyer and essayist.[1][2]
Life and career
Georg Quabbe was born in 1887 in Breslau (now Wrocław), the son of Ferdinand Quabbe, a merchant from the same city, and Anna Naundorf. After graduating with a PhD in law, he worked as a judicial trainee in Breslau. In 1912, he married Erika Auguste Margarete Bucksch, a merchant's daughter. The couple divorced on 5 October 1915.[1] He married his second wife, Elisabeth von Heyden, on 19 May 1922.[2]
In 1927, he wrote the essay Tar a Ri. Variationen über ein konservatives Thema ("Tar a Ri. Variations on a conservative theme"), embodying the moderate section of the Conservative Revolution. He is considered by Armin Mohler to be one of the most influential thinkers of the latter movement.[3]
On October 17, 1946, Quabbe, who had refused to collaborate with the Nazis, was appointed Attorney General (Generalstaatsanwalt) of the State of Hesse by Georg-August Zinn, Hesse's Minister of Justice at the time.[4] He died in 1950 in Frankfurt of a stroke.[2]
Works
- Die völkerrechtliche Garantie (Dissertation). Breslau (1909) 1911.
- Tar a Ri. Variationen über ein konservatives Thema. Berlin 1927 (Nachdruck 2007, ISBN 3-922-11931-X).
- Das letzte Reich. Wandel und Wesen der Utopie. Leipzig 1933 (Nachdruck 2014, ISBN 978-3-939869-64-1).
- Goethes Freunde. Drei Essays. Stuttgart 1949.
References
- ^ a b Standesamt Breslau II: Eheregister. Nr. 1188/1912.
- ^ a b c Standesamt Frankfurt am Main VI: Sterberegister. Nr. 1188/1912.
- ^ Mohler, Armin (1950). Die konservative Revolution in Deutschland 1918–1932 – Ein Handbuch. 6. überarbeitete Auflage. (2005 ed.), p. 110 ff, 415.
- ^ "Die justizielle Aufarbeitung von NS-Verbrechen in Hessen Katalog" (2014)
