Alfred Dürr (lawyer)

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Alfred Dürr (born June 15, 1879 in Würzburg , † September 19, 1953 in Munich ) was a German lawyer. From 1937 to 1943 he was President of the Munich Higher Regional Court .

Life

After visiting the Maximilianeum, Dürr began studying law in Würzburg , which he continued in Berlin . In 1898 he became a member of the Arminia Würzburg fraternity . In 1902 he passed the 1st state examination, and in the following year he received his doctorate with a dissertation on securities embezzlement .

In 1905 he achieved the grade "very good" in the 2nd state examination and entered the Bavarian judicial service as an assessor, before moving to the Bavarian State Ministry of Justice in April 1906 as a legal " auxiliary worker " . In 1906 he became III. Public prosecutor at the district court of Munich I and in 1909 district judge at the district court of Munich . From 1910 to 1914 he worked again in the Ministry of Justice. In 1914 he became second public prosecutor at the district court Munich I, in 1918 district judge there . After he had previously carried out other duties in the ministry in addition to the administration of justice, he switched to the government at the end of 1919 , becoming a senior government councilor in 1921 and a ministerial councilor in 1922 .

From 1929/1930 to 1934 he was Deputy Plenipotentiary of Bavaria at the Reichsrat . On November 1, 1931, he was Ministerialrat as head of department. For the time as deputy representative of the Reichsrat, he was appointed Ministerialdirektor. In April 1934 he was promoted to ministerial director and appointed representative of the Bavarian justice administration in the capital of the Reich. On April 1, 1935, Dürr became Vice President of the Munich Higher Regional Court. From January to March 1935 he was a full member of the Criminal Law Commission, after which he was a member of the Criminal Law Senate of the Academy for German Law .

Dürr, who had belonged to the DNVP before the National Socialist “ seizure of power ” , joined the Association of National Socialist German Jurists in January 1934 and the NSDAP in 1937 .

On May 1, 1937, the day he joined the party, he became President of the Munich Higher Regional Court. During the “Working Conference of the Higher Regional Court Presidents and Attorneys General” on April 23 and 24, 1941 in Berlin, in which Dürr took part, the participants were informed by Franz Schlegelberger about the “ destruction of unworthy life ”. After his brother-in-law, Reich Minister of Justice Franz Gürtner , died in 1941, his successor Georg Thierack sent him into early retirement on February 1, 1943. In 1944 he voluntarily headed the legal department of the Munich War Damage Office.

As part of the denazification he initially benefited from the so-called Christmas amnesty of 1946, but this was lifted in his case and the pension payment to him was temporarily suspended in 1948. On April 23, 1949, the Munich Spruchkammer classified him in the second highest category of the “incriminated”, gave him six months of special work and ordered ten percent of his assets to be confiscated. In the appeal proceedings before the Appeals Chamber, he was first downgraded to a “ fellow traveler ” on August 5, 1949, and this verdict was revoked on December 6, 1950. On March 8, 1951, the case was set, so that the full pension of a higher regional court president was awarded again.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Yearbook of the Würzburg fraternity Arminia. Volume 2, 1997, p. 41, No. 515.
  2. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 121
personal data
SURNAME Dürr, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, President of the Munich Higher Regional Court
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1953
Place of death Munich