Dieprand von Richthofen

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Dieprand Emil Ludwig Fridolin Freiherr Praetorius von Richthofen (born December 15, 1875 in Zabern , Lower Alsace , † March 5, 1946 in Königsfeld (Saxony) ) was Senate President at the Imperial Court and anti-Semitic politician ( DSP ).

Life

He was the son of the Reich Foreign State Secretary and Prussian State Minister Oswald von Richthofen (1847-1906). The liberal politician Hartmann von Richthofen was his brother (1878-1953). From 1888 to 1893 he attended high school in Weimar . He then studied in Lausanne , Rome , Leipzig and Marburg . He passed the first state examination in law in 1896 with the grade "sufficient". In 1896 he was sworn in. He completed his legal traineeship in 1899 with an examination “with distinction”. In 1900 he was taken on as a court assessor. On New Year's Day 1903 he was appointed district judge at the Eisenach district court . Exactly three years later, he became a higher regional judge in Jena. From 1905 he belonged to the German Social Party, for which he sat as a member of the state parliament of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach from 1906 to 1909 for the constituency of Jena-Land . In the Reichstag election in 1907 , his candidacy for the mandate for the Principality of Waldeck against the liberal MP Heinz Potthoff (the mandate went to the anti-Semite candidate Vietmeyer in the next election period in 1912 ) failed . In 1908 he became the founding chairman of the Thuringia regional association of the DSP and remained so until 1912. In May 1919 he came to the Imperial Court of Justice. He was as Reich judge in the VI. and VII. Civil Senate . On New Year's Day 1934 he was promoted to President of the Seventh Civil Senate. On October 1, 1939, he was appointed Vice President of the Reich Court. On March 31, 1942, he retired.

His statement from 1933 is often quoted with reference to the National Socialist regime :

"The Reichsgericht has always kept in mind that its jurisdiction must take into account the goals pursued by the government of national insurrection and that it has to influence the subordinate courts in this sense."

The FRG diplomat Oswald Freiherr von Richthofen (1908–1994) was his son.

Party memberships

Honors

literature

  • Adolf Lobe : Fifty Years of the Imperial Court. On October 1, 1929. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1929, p. 383.
  • Friedrich Karl Kaul : History of the Reichsgericht. Volume 4: 1933-1945. Akademie-Verlag, (East) Berlin 1971, p. 61.
  • Thomas Klein (Ed.): The Hessians as Reichstag voters. Tables on the political history of the country 1867–1933. Volume 1: Province of Hessen-Nassau and Waldeck-Pyrmont 1867-1918 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 51, 3). Elwert, Marburg 1989, ISBN 978-3-86354-083-8 , p. 1021.
  • Klaus-Detlev Godau-Schüttke : The Federal Court of Justice. Justice in Germany. Tischler, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-922654-66-5 , p. 31.

supporting documents

  1. ^ Genealogical handbook of baronial houses. Volume 19 (= Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility . Volume 110). Starke, Limburg / Lahn 1996, ISBN 3-7980-0700-4 , p. 287.
  2. ↑ a b Ulrich Hess: History of Thuringia 1866 to 1914. Edited from the estate by Volker Wahl . Böhlau, Weimar 1991, ISBN 3-7400-0077-5 , p. 457.
  3. ↑ Kaul, p. 62; Godau-Schüttke, p. 31; Rolf Lamprecht : A little bit of the Bible and a lot of injustice . In: Der Spiegel , October 1, 1979; Hollow nut . In: Der Spiegel , January 27, 1992.
personal data
SURNAME Richthofen, Dieprand of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Richthofen, Dieprand Emil Ludwig Fridolin Freiherr Praetorius von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Imperial Judge
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Zabern , Lower Alsace
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1946
Place of death Königsfeld (Saxony)