Adolf Arndt

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Adolf Arndt, Walter Krüttner and Jürgen Neven-du Mont (from left), 1964

Karl Otto Adolf Arndt (born March 12, 1904 in Königsberg , East Prussia , † February 13, 1974 in Kassel ) was a German lawyer , politician ( SPD ) and architecture critic .

Life and work

Adolf Arndt was born as the son of law professor ( constitutional law and mining law ) G. Adolf Arndt (1849–1926) and his wife Louise Arndt, b. Zabeler was born in Königsberg. As a child, he moved with his parents to Berlin and in 1920 to Marburg , where he passed his Abitur at the Philippinum grammar school in 1922 . He then studied law , economics and philosophy at the universities in Marburg and Berlin . After his second state examination in law and a doctorate on antitrust administrative acts , he initially worked in Berlin as a lawyer in the law firm of the renowned criminal defense attorney Max Alsberg . He was then a judge at the District Court III in Berlin and in this capacity also in 1930 a rapporteur in the trial of George Grosz for blasphemy . He resigned the judge's office in 1933, because he "did not want to participate with them [meant the National Socialists ]". In Fritz Schönbeck's law firm in Berlin, he again represented not only commercial companies but also politically persecuted people such as Wilhelm Leuschner and Theodor Leipart . Arndt was classified as a " half-Jew " and in 1943 was obliged to do forced labor with the Todt organization . He was arrested in the summer of 1944, but was able to escape incognito to his family in Silesia at the beginning of 1945 . From there he fled to Westphalia with his family in February 1945 .

In August 1945 Arndt was admitted to the bar and notary in Marburg and in November moved to the Hessian Ministry of Justice . He was a ministerial advisor and senior public prosecutor , and later headed the criminal law department. In the mid-1950s he moved to Bonn , where he was admitted as a lawyer at the regional court.

Arndt was the brother of Helmut Arndt . He was born with Ruth Arndt. Helbing (1901–1989) married. Adolf Arndt and his son Claus Arndt were also members of the German Bundestag from June 1968 to October 1969 .

Adolf Arndt died at the age of 69. He was buried in the Zehlendorf forest cemetery on Potsdamer Chaussee in Berlin.

Political party

In 1946 Arndt joined the SPD . He was a member of the SPD federal executive committee from 1956 to 1964 and helped shape the Godesberg program . He pushed through a clearer commitment to the Basic Law than the program commission headed by Willi Eichler had originally planned.

MP

In 1948/49 Arndt belonged to the Economic Council of the Bizone , as chairman of the legal committee and the committee for civil service law as well as the special committee for securities adjustment and the special committee "DM opening balance sheet". From September 7, 1949 to October 19, 1969 he was a member of the German Bundestag in its first to fifth electoral term . In the Bundestag elections in 1949 and 1953 he won the direct mandate in the Hersfeld constituency of Hesse , in 1957 he moved into parliament via the state list of the SPD Bavaria , in 1961 as one of the members elected by the Berlin House of Representatives and finally in 1965 via the state list of the SPD North Rhine-Westphalia . From 1949 to 1961 he worked as legal advisor and parliamentary manager of the SPD parliamentary group. In addition, from 1949 to 1957 he was deputy chairman of the Bundestag committee for legal affairs and constitutional law and from 1951/52 deputy chairman of the parliamentary committee of inquiry for the investigation of abuses in the federal administration ( Platow committee ) . 1953 to 1961 he was chairman of the legal working group of the SPD parliamentary group.

Arndt's speech in the Bundestag became famous at the statute of limitations debate of 1965, in which he made a very personal confession and admitted that he was morally complicit in the crimes of the National Socialist terror regime.

Arndt was considered the crown lawyer of the SPD parliamentary group, who represented the parliamentary group and the party in front of the Federal Constitutional Court , for example in the proceedings on the "Federal TV" planned by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer or the party financing . The estate of Adolf Arndt is in the archive of social democracy of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung .

Public offices

From March 11, 1963 to March 31, 1964, Adolf Arndt held the newly created office of Senator for Science and Art in Berlin - parallel to his membership in the Bundestag . From 1964 to 1969, Arndt acted as chairman of the German Werkbund .

Honors

The state government of North Rhine-Westphalia awarded Arndt the title of honorary professor for his services in 1969 . He also received honorary membership of the Academy of Arts in 1964 , the Critics 'Prize of the Association of German Architects (BDA) in 1965 and the Hans-Dahs plaque of the German Lawyers' Association in 1973 .

Publications

  1. Basic questions of constitutional law. In: SJZ 1946, pp. 81 to 85.
  2. Why and what for reparation? In: JZ 1956, p. 211 ff.
  3. The personality in parliamentary democracy. Berlin 1958.
  4. The disempowerment of the Bundestag. In: The New Society. 1959, No. 6, pp. 431 to 438.
  5. The constitutional complaint for violation of the right to be heard. In: NJW, 1959, pp. 1297 to 1301.
  6. The nullity of unconstitutional laws. In: DÖV 1959, pp. 81 to 84.
  7. The lawyer in parliament. In: Juristen-Jahrbuch. 1960, pp. 82 to 89.
  8. The Basic Law not fulfilled. Tubingen 1960.
  9. Democracy as a builder. Lecture given at the Academy of the Arts Berlin 1960.
  10. The contemporary parliament building. In: The New Society. 1962, No. 6, pp. 429 to 438.
  11. Statutory law and judicial law. In: NJW 1963, pp. 1273 to 1284.
  12. Reform of the parliamentary committees of inquiry. In: DRiZ 1964, pp. 290 to 292.
  13. The role of the mass media in democracy, in: M. Löffler (Ed.), The role of the mass media in democracy. Munich / Berlin 1966.
  14. Opposition. In: The New Collection. 1968, issue 1, pp. 1 to 17.

literature

  • Walter Henkels : 99 Bonn heads , reviewed and supplemented edition, Fischer-Bücherei, Frankfurt am Main 1965, p. 20 f.
  • Horst Ehmke , Carlo Schmid , Hans Scharoun (eds.): Festschrift for Adolf Arndt for his 65th birthday. Frankfurt am Main 1969.
  • Claus Arndt (Ed.): Adolf Arndt on his 90th birthday - Documentation of the festival academy in the Catholic Academy Hamburg. Catholic Academy Hamburg and Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung , 1995, ISBN 3-86077-367-4
  • Dieter Gosewinkel : Adolf Arndt - The re-establishment of the rule of law out of the spirit of social democracy (1945–1961). Dietz, Bonn 1991, ISBN 3-8012-4021-5 .
  • Horst Ehmke: The power of law. Public Law Yearbook. Volume 50, p. 159 ff.

Web links

Commons : Adolf Arndt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chronika, magazine of the former Marburg high school students, No. 13, April 1933
  2. ^ Knerger.de: The grave of Adolf Arndt
personal data
SURNAME Arndt, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arndt, Karl Otto Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1974
Place of death kassel