Alexander Bergmann (lawyer)

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Alexander Bergmann (born December 15, 1878 in Barmen , † December 16, 1965 in Frechen ) was a German lawyer and president of the Cologne Higher Regional Court .

Life

Alexander Bergmann was born the son of a manufacturer . He studied law at the universities of Tübingen, Marburg, Berlin and Bonn. In 1899 he became a member of the Corps Suevia Tübingen .

In December 1933 - after the seizure of power by Adolf Hitler - who was a PhD Jurist President of the Higher Regional Court in Cologne. Bergmann was a member of the NSDAP .

From 1926 he founded the internationally distributed standard work International marriage and child law with citizenship law (short form: Der Bergmann ), which still appears today as a loose-leaf collection .

In 1941 Bergmann was a participant in the so-called Schlegelberger Conference , at which high-ranking officials were informed about killings in the context of Operation T4 , for which there was no legal basis.

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  1. ^ Ernst Klee: Documents on 'Euthanasia' , Frankfurt / M. 1985, ISBN 3-596-24327-0 , pp. 219-220.