Adolf von Garßen

Adolf von Garßen (born October 30, 1885 in Goslar ; † January 4, 1946 in the Vilvoorde internment camp near Brussels ) was a German judge and from 1932 to 1945 President of the Higher Regional Court of Celle .

Life

His father Georg von Garßen (1852–1923) was the mayor of Goslar. After the end of the First World War , in which v. Garßen had served as first lieutenant, he was active in various judicial functions in Hanover before he moved to the Prussian Ministry of Justice as Ministerialrat in May 1921. He worked there as a personnel officer for the higher regional court district of Celle. During his studies he became a member of the Zaringia Freiburg Academic Association .

In March 1932 he was appointed President of the Higher Regional Court in Celle . He was one of two presidents nationwide who retained their position in 1933. In May 1933 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 2.624.517) and was a member of the RDB and the BNSDJ . According to Rüping, Garßen helped to implement National Socialist “content for the administration of justice, supported his goals through widespread acceptance and remains responsible in this regard”, as the Senate President Dr. Richard Katzenstein (1878–1942) or the higher regional judge Dr. Julius Sautter (1878–) show.

In his capacity as President of the Higher Regional Court, Garßen took part in the meeting of the highest lawyers in the German Reich on April 23 and 24, 1941 in Berlin , at which Viktor Brack and Werner Heyde provided information on the "destruction of life unworthy of life" in the gas chambers of the T4 campaign .

On April 12, 1945, he was imprisoned by the British military authorities because they assumed joint responsibility for the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp . He died in the field hospital in 1946.

literature

Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-10-039309-0 , p. 174.
Hinrich Rüping : Garßen, Adolf v. In: Joachim Rückert , Jürgen Vortmann : Lower Saxony lawyers. Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-525-18241-4 , pp. 283ff.
Ulrich Hamann: The higher regional court of Celle in the Third Reich. Justice administration and human resources, in: Hans-Harald Franzki (Hrsg.): Festschrift for the 275th anniversary of the Higher Regional Court of Celle. Celle 1986, p. 146ff.
Acta Borussica - New episode. 1st row: Jürgen Kocka , Wolfgang Neugebauer (ed.): The protocols of the Prussian State Ministry 1817–1934 / 38.
- Gerhard Schulze: Volume 11, II: November 14, 1918 to March 31, 1925. Ed. from the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2002, p. 578. (PDF)
- Reinhold Zilch, Bärbel Holtz: Volume 12, II: April 4, 1925 to May 10, 1938. Hildesheim et al. 2004. (PDF)
Katrin Rieke: Karl Peter Adolf von Garßen. In: Norbert Steinau (Red.): 300 years of the Higher Regional Court of Celle. Documentation of the exhibition in the Bomann Museum Celle from September 16, 2011 to March 18, 2012. Bomann Museum / Higher Regional Court of Celle, 2012, ISBN 978-3-925902-85-7 , p. 72.

Individual evidence

↑ The Black Ring. Membership directory. Darmstadt 1930, p. 63.
↑ Lecture by Brigitte Streich on August 2, 2001 in the Higher Regional Court of Celle, on the website of the Association for the Promotion of Political Literature eV: Celle in National Socialism - A historical city tour: Archived copy ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 14, 2013. @1@ 2

^ Website of the Association for the Promotion of Political Literature eV: Celle in National Socialism - A historical city tour [1] , accessed on January 14, 2013.

↑ On the implementation by Garßen in the OLG district, cf. Raimond Reiter: Hitler's Secret Policy. Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-631-58146-9 , pp. 116ff.

↑ Elmar Schürmann: Historical development in the former Prussian areas of the district court districts of Aurich and Osnabrück. In: Rechtsanwaltskammer Oldenburg (Hrsg.): Lawyer without right - fate of Jewish lawyers in the district of today's Higher Regional Court of Oldenburg. 2007, p. 34.

Web links

Traveling exhibition of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Justice "Justice under National Socialism - About crimes in the name of the people -" Documentation on the special part of Celle: Adolf v. Garßen .

personal data
SURNAME	Garßen, Adolf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German judge, President of the Higher Regional Court of Celle (1932–1945)
DATE OF BIRTH	October 30, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH	Goslar
DATE OF DEATH	January 4, 1946
Place of death	Vilvoorde

[1] The Black Ring. Membership directory. Darmstadt 1930, p. 63.

[2] Lecture by Brigitte Streich on August 2, 2001 in the Higher Regional Court of Celle, on the website of the Association for the Promotion of Political Literature eV: Celle in National Socialism - A historical city tour: Archived copy ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 14, 2013. @1@ 2

[3] Website of the Association for the Promotion of Political Literature eV: Celle in National Socialism - A historical city tour [1] , accessed on January 14, 2013.

[4] On the implementation by Garßen in the OLG district, cf. Raimond Reiter: Hitler's Secret Policy. Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-631-58146-9 , pp. 116ff.

[5] Elmar Schürmann: Historical development in the former Prussian areas of the district court districts of Aurich and Osnabrück. In: Rechtsanwaltskammer Oldenburg (Hrsg.): Lawyer without right - fate of Jewish lawyers in the district of today's Higher Regional Court of Oldenburg. 2007, p. 34.