Daniel Cohn

This article deals with Judge Daniel Cohn. On the politician and publicist see Daniel Cohn-Bendit .

Daniel Cohn (born June 2, 1881 in Tuchel , † December 21, 1965 in Chicago ) was a German lawyer and judge.

Life

In 1902 he passed the first state examination (“distinction”), the second in 1907 (“sufficient”). In the same year he became an assessor at the Tiegenhof district court . Then in 1909 he became a judge at the Thorn district court , and in 1916 he became an assistant judge at the Marienwerder Higher Regional Court . In 1919 he became a district judge at the LG Halle . In 1922 he was appointed to the Chamber of Justice of the KG Berlin . In 1930 he became an assistant judge at the Reich Court , and on August 15, 1932 he was appointed Reich Judge. His forced retirement on November 1, 1933 was made possible by the " lawful " law restoring the civil service , as he was of the Mosaic faith. After he was interned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1938 , he emigrated to England after his release in 1939. In 1947 he emigrated to the United States. As part of the reparation , he was appointed "Senate President at the Reichsgericht aD".

literature

• Friedrich Karl Kaul , History of the Reichsgericht , Volume IV (1933–1945), East Berlin 1971.
• Sigrun Mühl-Benninghaus, Officials in the Nazi dictatorship up to the outbreak of the Second World War , Düsseldorf 1996, p. 57.
• On Cohn's stay in Sachsenhausen: Hans Reichmann, German citizen and persecuted Jew , Munich 1998, p. 174ff.
• Cohn, Daniel , in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (eds.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economics, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 113