Bernhard Oppermann

Bernhard Oppermann (born July 23, 1853 in Berlin , † August 23, 1917 in Oberstdorf ) was a German judge .

Life

His father was the public prosecutor Heinrich Oppermann. He passed his Abitur in Coburg. He studied in Heidelberg, Bonn and Berlin. During his studies in 1871 he became a member of the Allemannia Heidelberg fraternity . He received his doctorate in Bonn. He dealt exclusively with criminal law. In 1876 he was sworn in to the Prussian sovereign. In 1886 he became public prosecutor in Berlin and in 1900 regional court director. He came to the Reichsgericht in 1907. Hugo Heinemann , a defense attorney who had clashed with Oppermann in the Plötzensee Trial in 1905, etched: “He was able to fill this position [as Reich Judge] admirably, because he was a good lawyer and at the Reich Court only legal ones Realized that it had nothing to do with living people. “He was active in the 4th Penal Senate of the Reich Court . In 1917 he died of a stroke in Oberstdorf while hiking down from the Nebelhorn on the Seealpe. By the standards of the anti-Semites, he was considered a “Jewish lawyer”.

Memberships

Member of the Prussian Chamber of Experts
Deputy member of the disciplinary court for the protected areas
Member of the commission preparing the revision of the Code of Criminal Procedure

Works

The Code of Criminal Procedure for the German Reich, 9th edition, Munich 1917.

literature

Obituary by Franz von Liszt in the ZStW , Volume 39 (1918), page 60.
Obituary by Hugo Heinemann in Sozialistische Monatshefte , issue of January 22, 1918, p. 103f. .

Individual evidence

^ Hugo Böttger (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1911/12. Berlin 1912, p. 148.
↑ Thomas Henne: “Jewish Jurists” at the Reichsgericht and their connections to the Leipzig Faculty of Law 1870–1945. In: Stephan Wendehorst (Ed.): Building blocks of a Jewish history of the University of Leipzig. Leipzig 2006, p. 199.

personal data
SURNAME	Oppermann, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Imperial Judge
DATE OF BIRTH	July 23, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	August 23, 1917
Place of death	Oberstdorf

[1] Hugo Böttger (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1911/12. Berlin 1912, p. 148.

[2] Thomas Henne: “Jewish Jurists” at the Reichsgericht and their connections to the Leipzig Faculty of Law 1870–1945. In: Stephan Wendehorst (Ed.): Building blocks of a Jewish history of the University of Leipzig. Leipzig 2006, p. 199.