Arthur Bulow

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Arthur Bülow (1964)

Arthur Bülow (born November 17, 1901 in Pinnow (Uckermark) , † May 4, 1988 in Cologne ) was a German ministerial official and legal scholar .

Career until 1945

As the son of a civil servant , Bülow attended a secondary school in Berlin-Pankow . After graduating from high school, he studied law at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the University of Jena . He passed the assessor examination in 1928 and completed the preparatory service in the administration of justice in the Free State of Prussia . From 1931 to 1941 he was a judge at local and regional courts and from 1937 at the higher court . In 1941 he came to the Reich Ministry of Justice as Ministerialrat, to which he belonged until May 1945 and worked in the department for commercial, transport and public law. Bülow joined the NSDAP on March 1, 1933.

In 1944 he was listed by the Allies as a 'very important person' and chosen to play an important role in the development of the German judiciary after the Second World War .

Career after 1945

In the summer of 1945, Bülow was arrested and worked under Anglo-American supervision at the Ministerial Collecting Center (MCC) in Fürstenhagen near Kassel. In October 1946, the Fulda Chamber of Arbitration classified him as a follower; but when the early membership in the NSDAP became known immediately afterwards, the denazification process was restarted. Witnesses of repute such as Walter Kriege and Hans Globke stood up for him. Even before a final decision from the Chamber, which classified Bülow in the group of the exonerated in June 1948, his post-war career began in November 1946 as a clerk in the Central Justice Office in Hamburg.

In the post-war period, Bülow played a key role in the establishment of the Central Justice Office and the Supreme Court for the British Zone of Occupation . From 1946 he was a lecturer there . Ministerialrat in the Federal Ministry of Justice since 1949 , in 1953 he was appointed ministerial director in the subdivision for civil procedural law . The Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn appointed him honorary professor . When Walter Strauss was put into temporary retirement after the Spiegel affair in 1963, Bülow followed him as State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Justice until 1966 .

Bülow was listed in the Brown Book as "Ministerialrat in the Nazi Ministry of Justice" and a participant in the 1933 Reich Party Rally.

Honors

Publications

  • with Fritz Wassmundt: The Prussian deposit regulations and implementation regulations . Publishing house CH Beck , Munich 1932.
  • International legal relations in civil and commercial matters. Collection of sources with explanations , Beck, Munich 1954 (loose-leaf work, last published under the author's name Bülow / Böckstiegel / Geimer / Schütze in 4th edition, Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-45684-7 )
  • with Hans Arnold : International legal relations in civil and commercial matters. Collection of sources with systematic representations and a country overview . Beck, Munich 1954–1961.
  • Federal Lawyers' Act of August 1, 1959 Explanatory Book for Practice . Vahlen, Berlin Frankfurt am Main 1959.
  • The UN Convention on the Assertion of Maintenance Claims Abroad , text edition. Munich 1960.
  • with Friedrich Mecke and Walter Kriege: deposit regulations, with ancillary provisions . Beck, Munich 1979.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Manfred Görtemaker, Christoph Safferling: The Rosenburg files. The Federal Ministry of Justice and the Nazi era. Munich 2016, ISBN 9783406697685 , p. 241.
  2. ↑ a b Munzinger (beginning)
  3. ^ Manfred Görtemaker, Christoph Safferling: The Rosenburg files. The Federal Ministry of Justice and the Nazi era. Munich 2016, ISBN 9783406697685 , pp. 242–243.
  4. ^ Norbert Podewin (ed.): Braunbuch - war and Nazi criminals in the Federal Republic and in Berlin (West). Reprint of the 1968 edition (3rd edition), Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-360-01033-7 , p. 151.
  5. ↑ a b List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)

literature

  • Günther Beitzke: Arthur Bülow , in: Jurists in portrait. Publisher and authors in four decades . Festschrift for the 225th anniversary of the CH Beck publishing house.
  • Karl-Heinz Böckstiegel , Ottoarndt Glossner (ed.): Arbitration and disputes influenced by public law. Festschrift for Arthur Bülow on his 80th birthday . Carl Heymanns Verlag , Cologne 1981, ISBN 3-452-19007-2 .

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personal data
SURNAME Bülow, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ministerial official and legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Pinnow (Uckermark)
DATE OF DEATH May 4, 1988
Place of death Cologne