Georg Quabbe

Georg Quabbe (10 March 1887 – 17 July 1950) was a German lawyer and essayist.

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.

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. He died in 1950 in Frankfurt of a stroke.

Works

Die völkerrechtliche Garantie (Dissertation). Breslau (1909) 1911. Tar a Ri. Variationen über ein konservatives Thema. Berlin 1927 (Nachdruck 2007, ). Das letzte Reich. Wandel und Wesen der Utopie. Leipzig 1933 (Nachdruck 2014, ). Goethes Freunde. Drei Essays. Stuttgart 1949.