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Arthur Georg Sigismund Ungewitter (born March 8, 1885 in Naumburg (Hesse) , † January 8, 1955 ) was a German lawyer. From 1939 to 1945 he was President of the Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt am Main .

Career

Arthur Georg Sigismund Ungewitter comes from an old family of judges. He was born as the son of Gustav Ungewitter, who later became the district court director, and his grandfather and other male ancestors were judges. Ungewitter grew up in the Rhineland and Westphalia. After graduating from high school in Duisburg in 1903, he studied law, which he completed in Hamm in 1906 with the legal trainee examination. During his studies in Heidelberg in 1903 he became a member of the Frankonia Heidelberg fraternity . From 1906 to 1911 he was a trainee lawyer at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court , interrupted by a year of voluntary military service. In January 1913 he married Line Lehr, the daughter of Duisburg's Lord Mayor Karl Lehr . In February 1914 he became a district judge in Frankfurt am Main, but was soon called up for military service, where he made it to the rank of first lieutenant of the reserve until the end of the war in 1918. From June 1, 1919 he was a district judge, on December 1, 1924 he was promoted to district court director in Frankfurt. He works in the same chamber as the later Nazi mayor of Frankfurt Friedrich Krebs .

In May 1933 Ungewitter joined the NSDAP as part of the mass entry of Frankfurt judges , without exposing himself to party politics.

After the establishment of the Frankfurt Special Court , opened by Roland Freisler on March 31, 1933 , Ungewitter became its deputy chairman. The Frankfurt Special Court led in the course of its existence, 1,699 political cases against 2,204 people, so-called " enemies of the people through". In 1936 he was given a lectureship in civil law, civil procedural law and bankruptcy law at the University of Frankfurt am Main, and in 1939 he was appointed honorary professor and university councilor. On May 1, 1937, he became President of the Senate and at the same time Vice-President of the Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt am Main, and on June 1, 1939, he became its President. He had previously received a positive assessment from Gauleiter Jakob Sprenger . He thus succeeded Otto Stadelmann , who also belonged to the NSDAP.

After the occupation of Frankfurt by American troops on March 28, 1945 Ungewitter was arrested and imprisoned on April 6, 1945. In the last court proceedings on March 31, 1949, he was classified as a "fellow traveler", incriminating evidence was not used. The investigation of his activity in the special court was also omitted. The files of the proceedings are kept in the Baden-Württemberg State Archives. Ungewitter then worked in a subordinate position for the Frankfurt lawyer Boesebeck .

literature

• Erhard Zimmer: The history of the higher regional court in Frankfurt am Main. Kramer, Frankfurt am Main. 1976 ISBN 978-3-7829-0174-1 , p. 149.
• Arthur von Gruenewaldt: The judiciary of the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main in the time of National Socialism: Die Personalpolitik und Personalentwicklung , Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2015 ISBN 978-3-16-153843-8 , p. 107 ff. (At the same time dissertation, University of Kiel )
• Moritz von Köckritz: The German Higher Regional Court Presidents in National Socialism: (1933–1945), 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-61791-5 , pp. 441–447.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Directory of members of the Frankonia fraternity in Heidelberg. 1956-1966. Heidelberg 1966, p. 26.
2. ^ Ordinance of the Reich President to ward off insidious attacks against the government of the national insurrection. March 31, 1933
3. ↑ Frankfurt am Main website 1933–1945
4. ^ Lothar Gruchmann : Justice in the Third Reich 1933-1940: Adaptation and submission in the Gürtner era , Volume 28 of sources and representations for contemporary history, Oldenbourg Verlag, 2001 ISBN 978-3-486-53833-5 , p. 279.