Dagobert Moericke

Dagobert Moericke (born December 31, 1885 in Heilbronn , † January 14, 1961 in Karlsruhe ) was a German lawyer and politician .

Life and work

Dagobert Moericke comes from a family of civil servants and doctors in Württemberg. The Lord Mayor of Constance Otto Moericke was his brother. In 1903 Moericke graduated from high school in Karlsruhe . Moericke began studying law at the universities in Munich , Paris and Freiburg im Breisgau . In 1909 he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD in Heidelberg. During his studies in Heidelberg Moericke became a member of the Rupertia Association . After completing his studies, he entered the Baden judicial service as a legal trainee in 1907, became a court assessor in 1912 and a local judge in Karlsruhe in 1916. It was also used in the Baden Ministry of Justice. In 1919 he became a public prosecutor in Pforzheim. In 1922 he was transferred to Constance. From March 1923 to March 1924 he was an unskilled worker with the Reich Attorney General . In 1924 he became public prosecutor in Karlsruhe and promoted to first public prosecutor in the same year. In 1926 he was appointed district court advisor in Karlsruhe and from 1928 he worked as a senior public prosecutor at the Reichsgericht in Leipzig . From 1936 he was President of the Senate at the Higher Regional Court in Celle .

After the war ended, Moericke was appointed attorney general in the British zone in Lower Saxony in 1945 by the British military administration . From 1951 he acted as Senate President at the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) in Karlsruhe.

He was presiding judge and Senate President in the notorious and secret five-brochure judgment of the Federal Court of Justice of April 28, 1952, in which it was determined that the receipt and possession of political brochures from the GDR is punishable.

Public offices

Moericke served from January 1, 1947 to December 31, 1950 as State Secretary in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Justice .

Works

• The German tumult laws, in particular the Baden law, the obligation of community members to pay compensation for the crimes committed during rioting, dated February 13, 1851. Dissertation Heidelberg 1910, Berlin and Leipzig 1909.
• "The Moabite Strike Unrest and the Tumult Laws" , Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung, year 16 [1911], column 647/648 .
• “The Balkans” , Law and Economics, Volume 1 (1912), p. 456

literature

• Adolf Lobe : “Fifty Years of the Reich Court on October 1, 1929” , Berlin 1929, p. 405.
• Klaus-Detlev Godau-Schüttke : "The Federal Court of Justice - Justice in Germany -" , Berlin 2005, p. 97.
• Otto Moericke : "Memories" , in: Konstanzer Geschichts- und Rechtsquellen, Vol. 30, Thorbecke Verlag 1985, pp. 26f., ISBN 978-3-7995-6830-2 .

Web links

• Photo at the Lower Saxony Ministry of Justice
• Dagobert Moericke in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Judgments: Rejection of the appeal under Senate President Dagobert Moericke

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rüdiger Frommholz :  Mörike .. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 666 ( digitized version ).
2. ^ Quart catalog of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Card no. 46466301 ( Memento of the original dated December 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Ernst Müller-Meiningen junior : " 1953 witch trials - a questionable way out. Judiciary against opponents of the state on shaky ground. ", Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 270, 21./22. November 1953, p. 4.