Arthur Brand

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Arthur Brand (born August 23, 1870 in Berlin , † March 2, 1943 in Dresden ) was a Prussian civil judge and commentator on civil service law.

Life

After graduating from high school in Berlin, studying law in Freiburg and Berlin and completing his doctorate in Jena, Brand joined the Prussian judicial service. In 1909 he became a judge at the Court of Appeal and in 1918 President of the Duisburg-Hamborn Regional Court; he held this office until he retired in 1935. Brand became a lecturer at the University of Cologne in 1929 and was honorary professor for civil service law there between 1932 and 1935.

The NSDAP belonged to fire from May 1933rd He was appointed a member of the civil service law subcommittee of the Academy for German Law . He was involved in the first injustice of the nascent dictatorship as president of the regional court (organ of the judicial administration [bans on appearing against Jewish lawyers]).

Brand began working as a commentator (above all) on civil service law towards the end of the imperial era. During the Weimar Republic or its second half and the dictatorship, he became one of the most successful specialist authors. His texts are regarded as a reliable source of traditional principles of the professional civil service.

Fonts (selection)

  • Reichsbeamtengesetz , 1st edition 1902, 3rd edition as Reichsbeamtengesetze 1929
  • Official law, The legal relationships of the Prussian state and municipal officials , 1st edition 1914, 3rd edition 1928
  • The Prussian Disciplinary Laws , 1st edition 1929, 3rd edition as Die Prussischen Dienstraordnung 1935
  • Art. 128–131 (WRV), rights and obligations of civil servants , in: Nipperdey (Ed.): Grundrechte und Grundpflichten der Reichsverfassungs, Volume II, 1930, pp. 211 ff.
  • Reich Service Straits , 1st edition 1937, 3rd edition 1941
  • German Civil Service Act , 1st edition 1937, 4th edition 1942

Web links

literature

  • Hellmuth Günther, Arthur Brand and the civil service law , in: Der Staat 48 (2009), pp. 411–457
  • Erich Meuthen: Kölner Universitätsgeschichte , Volume III, 1988, p. 281
  • Folker Nießalla / Karl-Heinz Keldungs: 1933–1945, Fates of Jewish Lawyers in Duisburg , 1993, p. 10
  • Werner Schubert (Ed.): Academy for German Law, Minutes of the Committees , Volume XIX, 2011, pp. XXXIIIf
personal data
SURNAME Brand, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brand, Artur; Brand, A .; Brand-Schnitzler
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian civil judge and commentator on civil service law
DATE OF BIRTH 23 August 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1943
Place of death Dresden