Bruno Heusinger

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Bruno Heusinger (born March 2, 1900 in Holzminden ; † August 3, 1987 in Celle ) was a German lawyer . As the successor to Hermann Weinkauff , he was the second President of the Federal Court of Justice .

Life

His father was the grammar school teacher Ludwig Heusinger, born in Gandersheim in 1862 . His mother Charlotte came from the esteemed noble family von Alten . Bruno Heusinger's brother was Adolf Heusinger , who was the first General Inspector of the Bundeswehr from 1957 . After his father was transferred to Helmstedt in 1911 to become director of the local humanistic grammar school, Heusinger continued to grow up there.

In 1917 - in the middle of the First World War  - Bruno Heusinger received his secondary school diploma and then volunteered for the army . After the war he first studied history and German . He obtained his doctorate in 1922. phil. with a historical work. Only then did he complete his legal training in a very short time. As early as 1924, after the first state examination , Heusinger was hired as a trainee lawyer in the district of the Higher Regional Court (OLG) Braunschweig and in 1927 as a court assessor in Braunschweig .

In 1929 Bruno Heusinger was appointed regional judge, 1930 higher regional judge and on June 1, 1933 president of the higher regional court Braunschweig. As soon as he was appointed president, he was confronted with the murderous acts of Rieseberg when the responsible investigating judge, “the District Court Judge Eickhoff at the Königslutter District Court”, “reported verbally about the monstrous events”, whereupon Heusinger protested unsuccessfully to the Justice Minister Alpers . He also protested "repeatedly [...] against the conditions in the detention centers of the auxiliary police" and described the handling of so-called protective custody in the AOK building and in the People's Friends building as "an injustice to God and people" ". On the other hand, Heusinger, as chairman of the OLG criminal senate, was involved in the conviction on August 8, 1933 of the Braunschweig resistance fighter Hermann Bode for preparing for high treason . Ultimately, the conflicts between the President of the Higher Regional Court and the Nazis led to Heusinger's replacement as President of the Court at the end of 1934. In 1935 he was demoted to President of the Senate because he initially refused to swear allegiance to Hitler . When he did travel to Hanover to take the oath , the Nazi party officials did not allow him to take the oath. His application to join the NSDAP, which he had made the previous year, was rejected. With the beginning of the Second World War , he became a soldier and eventually a major in the reserve .

After the end of the war, Bruno Heusinger was reinstated in the judiciary and again appointed President of the Braunschweig Higher Regional Court from 1948 to 1955. Then he followed on May 4, 1955 Hodo von Hodenberg as president of the larger higher regional court in Celle . In 1957 he also became President of the Lower Saxony State Court . Heusinger was appointed President of the BGH on April 1, 1960. He also took over the chairmanship of the so-called cartel senate and was thus able to a. Influence the case law on the law against restraints of competition that came into force recently .

Heusinger retired on March 31, 1968 . He was succeeded by Robert Fischer . After his retirement he published several art and legal historical writings.

Honors

Publications (excerpt)

  • Servitium regis in the German Empire . Diss. Phil. Göttingen 1922
  • Finding the right law and legal training as reflected in judicial experience . Cologne 1975

literature

  • Manfred Flotho: Bruno Heusinger - A president in the conflict between solidarity and conscience . In: Rudolf Wassermann (Hrsg.): Justice in the course of time: Festschrift des Oberlandesgericht Braunschweig . Joh. Heinr. Meyer, Braunschweig 1989, ISBN 3-926701-07-2 , pp. 349-369 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Wassermann : The Higher Regional Court in the 'Third Reich' - Personnel Policy in the Nazi Era. (PDF; 302 kB) In: Justice in Transition. 1989, archived from the original on May 7, 2006 ; Retrieved on October 19, 2011 (excerpt from the festschrift Justiz im Wandel , pp. 7–8).
  2. ↑ Harald Duin: Hermann Bode - the forgotten resistance fighter . In: Braunschweiger Zeitung . Braunschweig March 26, 2009, p. 19 .
personal data
SURNAME Heusinger, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, President of the Federal Court of Justice
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Holzminden
DATE OF DEATH 3rd August 1987
Place of death Celle