Eduard Högl

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Eduard Högl (born June 5, 1875 in Oldenburg ; † April 3, 1939 in Rapallo ) was a lawyer, Oldenburg Higher Regional Court Councilor and from 1931 to 1939 President of the Oldenburg Higher Regional Court .

life and career

Högl came from a family of sculptors who settled in Oldenburg at the beginning of the 19th century. His great-grandfather Franz Anton Högl (1769-1859) came from Warsaw and was already a respected sculptor there. He came to Oldenburg in 1804.

Högl attended high school in Oldenburg, where he passed his Abitur in 1894. In the following years he studied in Heidelberg , Munich and Berlin law . In 1897 he passed the first state examination in law before the examination office of the Oldenburg Higher Regional Court. After his military service (1897–1898) he completed his legal preparatory service in the higher regional court district of Oldenburg , which he completed in 1902 with the major legal state examination. In the same year he entered the Oldenburg judicial service, was initially short time as a court Assessor in Oldenburg Regional Court operates and changed in 1903 as official judge at the district court of the Office Butjadingen in Ellwürden in the municipality Abbehausen . In 1907 he returned to the regional court in Oldenburg, where he was promoted to regional judge in 1913 . He took part in the First World War as an officer in the Landwehr and was taken prisoner by the Russians in 1915 , from which he did not return until the end of 1920. He then resumed his work at the Oldenburg Regional Court. In 1924 Högl was promoted to higher regional court advisor at the higher regional court in Oldenburg and at the same time appointed deputy to the higher regional court president.

In 1931 he was appointed President of the Higher Regional Court and thus the highest judge in the Free State of Oldenburg. At the same time he was chairman of the Oldenburg legal state examination office, the service court and the hereditary court court established in the Third Reich . During his tenure, the National Socialist rulers began to exert influence on the judiciary, which, particularly since 1935, increasingly affected the judges' personal and factual independence. Högl was already a member of the NSDAP in May 1933 and seems to have acted accordingly. On October 1, 1935, he forbade the Oldenburg notary Ernst Löwenstein to continue his business because of his Jewish faith. In his direct professional environment as a judge, however, he criticized in reports to the Reich Ministry of Justice the inadequate consideration of National Socialist ideas in court decisions. In the last few years of his life he suffered from severe heart disease from which he died while on vacation in Rapallo. He was followed by Kurt Reuthe as President of the Higher Regional Court.

family

Högl married Emma Gramberg (1888–1960) in 1911, the daughter of the Oldenburg ministerial advisor Otto Friedrich Gramberg (1856–1946). The marriage remained childless.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulf Brückner: Erich Schiff and Ernst Löwenstein - on the fate of Jewish lawyers in Oldenburg in the Third Reich. Lecture at the Regional Court of Oldenburg on June 7, 2001. Published by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Justice, Hanover 2002.

Remarks

  1. ↑ In the biography of Ernst Tenge , written by Hans Friedl in the BHGLO , it is stated , however, that Tenge held the office of President of the Higher Regional Court until his retirement on June 1, 1936 (page 740). So Högl would not have assumed this office until 1936.
personal data
SURNAME Högl, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lawyer and President of the Oldenburg Higher Regional Court
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1939
Place of death Rapallo