Curt Staff

Curt Staff (born October 4, 1901 in Grevenbroich , † August 22, 1976 in Kelkheim ) was a German lawyer . He was President of the Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt am Main .

Career

After graduating from high school in 1920 at the humanistic Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Braunschweig , he studied law at the University of Göttingen from 1920 to 1923 . He had been a member of the SPD since 1919 . In January 1923, Staff passed the first state examination in law, and in the same year he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD. After the second state examination in 1927, he took up a position as a government assessor in the Braunschweig police administration, and later switched to the public prosecutor's office . In 1930 he was appointed district judge.

He was married to the constitutional lawyer Ilse Staff (1928-2017).

time of the nationalsocialism

After he came to power , he was removed from service by the National Socialists on June 10, 1933 and beaten up under the law to restore the civil service. He was arrested in August 1935 and imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp until October of the same year . After his dismissal he was employed in a construction company in 1936 and from 1938 to 1945 he was the private secretary of the Cologne banker Robert Pferdmenges .

After 1945

After the Second World War and the era of National Socialism, Staff joined the public service in April 1945 as the acting district administrator of the Gandersheim district . From August 1, 1945 to October 1, 1947 he was Attorney General in Braunschweig. On January 1, 1948, he was appointed President of the Senate of the Supreme Court for the British Zone in Cologne and was appointed chairman of a criminal senate . On April 12, 1951, he moved to the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court as President and became Chairman of the 1st Criminal Senate. At the same time he took over the chairmanship of the legal examination office at the OLG. In Cologne, Staff held lectures as an honorary professor at the university there, an activity that he continued at the law faculty of Frankfurt's Johann Wolfgang Goethe University .

During his presidency at the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court, the number of civil senates doubled to 18, while that of criminal senates grew from one to three. Staff retired on February 26, 1970. At the same time his successor Otto Rudolf Kissel was introduced to the office.

literature

• Erhard Zimmer: The history of the higher regional court in Frankfurt am Main. , Kramer, Frankfurt am Main, 1976 ISBN 978-3-78290174-1 , p. 152 ff.

Web links

• Pentapolus Brunswick history in the 19th and 20th centuries