Bernhard Brandis
Bernhard Friedrich Brandis was a German supreme court justice.
Early life
He grew up in India, and was a son of the botanist and forestry administrator Sir Dietrich Brandis, the Inspector General of Forests of India, and Lady Katharina Brandis, known as Kate. His father had joined the British civil service in India in 1856. The family lived in Calcutta and in Simla during the summer.
Judicial career
As of 1914, he was a judge on a regional court in Elberfeld. He was appointed as a judge on the Imperial Court of Justice in 1929 and died in office in 1935. His former law clerk Ernst Eduard Hirsch described him as "brought up to be a gentleman" and highly erudite.
Family
Bernhard Brandis was the father of the noted microbiologist Henning Brandis. He should not be confused with his uncle, the physician Bernhard Brandis, or with Ernst Brandis, of no relation, who was a judge on the Imperial Court of Justice from 1937.
Publications
Die Graphologie im Dienste des Kaufmanns: Eine Einführung in die Grundlehren der Handschriften-Deutungskunde und ihre Anwendung im kaufmännischen Betrieb sowie praktische, allgemeinverständliche Anleitung, um aus der Handschrift Charakter, Gemütsstimmung, Verstellung und Fälschung der Handschrift bestimmen zu können, L. Huberti, 1905, 79 pages