Gustav Amandus Hermann Lisco (30 January 1850 – 7 November 1923) was a German

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and government minister in the early 20th century.

Biography

His father was Emil Gustav Lisco, a priest at the Berlin St. Marienkirche. Between 1859 and 1868 he attended the Friedrich Werder Gymnasium, after which he studied law in Berlin,

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and

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. In 1872 he entered the Prussian judicial service. Lisco became a magistrate in Rixdorf in 1879; in 1883 he became a provincial judge for

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; in 1888 he was named High Court Judge to

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and one year later in the same function to

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. In 1903 he became a privy councillor. The following year he became head of the personnel department of the Prussian Ministry of Justice in the rank of Ministerial Director. From 1907 to 1909 he was the head of the Berlin

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, then in 1909 he was appointed a minister of Justice, and then Secretary as Secretary of State in the

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. He was a member of the General Synod of the

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from 1908, and president of the ''Evangelischer Bund'' in 1922/1923. Hermann Lisco was buried in a family grave at the cemetery of the ''Jerusalems- und Neuen Kirche'' in

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. The grave is maintained.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lisco, Hermann Members of the Prussian House of Lords 1850 births 1923 deaths 19th-century German judges 20th-century German judges