Arno Barth

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Arno Barth (* 1893 in Greiz ; † 1949 in Gera ) was a German local politician ( SPD / SED ) and lawyer , most recently President of the Higher Regional Court .

Life

Barth comes from a respected family of craftsmen . His father was a builder . After attending elementary school and a secondary school with the acquisition of the university entrance qualification , he studied law and economics from 1912 . During the First World War he interrupted his studies and from 1914 to 1918 participated in the war as a machine gun sniper. He was wounded during combat operations and was discharged from the army at the end of the war with the rank of lieutenant in the reserve. He then continued his studies, which he finished in 1922 with the second state examination. From 1922 to 1927 he worked as a court assessor and local court advisor in Gera.

Barth was active in the SPD from 1922. From 1923 to 1927 he belonged to the Republican Association of Judges and from 1925 to 1933 to the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold . From 1925 to 1933 he was elected to the Gera city council and from 1927 became a full-time alderman . From 1929 to 1933 he was one of the mayors of the city of Gera. Barth was also a member of the Association of Socialist Lawyers .

With the beginning of the Nazi dictatorship , he lost his political offices in 1933 and worked as a legal advisor and, after the ban in 1936, as an insurance agent . During the " Operation Grid " in August 1944 he was arrested and interned in the Buchenwald concentration camp . After the prisoners of Buchenwald concentration camp were liberated by the 3rd US Army , he was one of the signatories of the Buchenwald Manifesto .

Barth joined the Association of Democratic Socialists (BdS) founded by Hermann Brill , which became part of the SPD. From the beginning of June 1945 he was President of the Gera Regional Court and from August 1945 until his death in 1949 President of the Gera Higher Regional Court . As a member of the SED, in the opinion of Steffen Kachel , Barth represented the concept of a prosocialist judiciary based on the rule of law .

literature

  • Steffen Kachel: A red-red special path? Social Democrats and Communists in Thuringia 1919 to 1949 , = publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia, Small Series Volume 29, ISBN 978-3-412-20544-7 .
  • Wolfgang Röll: Social Democrats in the Buchenwald concentration camp. 1937-1945. Including biographical sketches. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-89244-417-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Wolfgang Röll: Social Democrats in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp 1937–1945 , Wallstein-Verlag, 2000, p. 270
  2. ↑ Steffen Kachel: A red-red special path? Social Democrats and Communists in Thuringia 1919 to 1949 , = Publications of the Historical Commission for Thuringia, Small Series Volume 29, p. 539
personal data
SURNAME Barth, Arno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician (SPD, SED) and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Greiz
DATE OF DEATH 1949
Place of death Gera