Emil Lersch
Emil Lersch (born December 17, 1879 in Munich ; † February 8, 1963 ibid) was a German judge at the Imperial Court and the Federal Court of Justice .
Life
Lersch, the son of a merchant, was a Protestant. He passed the first state law examination in 1902 with a “good”, the second state examination in 1905 with a grade of “II”. In 1905 he was a qualified legal intern. In February 1908 he entered the Bavarian judicial service and was III. Public Prosecutor at the Regional Court of Munich II . On May 1, 1910, he was appointed district judge at the Munich District Court . On May 1, 1919, he came to the Augsburg Regional Court as second public prosecutor . On December 1, 1919, he was transferred to the Munich I Regional Court . On May 1, 1924, he was promoted to the district judge. He then worked as a local judge at the Munich District Court and at the Munich I District Court at the same time. He became the first public prosecutor at the Munich II regional court on December 1, 1929. In March 1930, Lersch was appointed senior public prosecutor . On January 22nd, 1932, he was promoted to regional court director at the regional court in Munich I. A month later he came to the Reichsgericht as a laborer. At the. November 1, 1933, he was appointed Reich judge in the IV Criminal Senate . Lersch was thus a member of the Senate that sentenced Marinus van der Lubbe to death in the Reichstag fire trial in violation of the principle “ nulla poena sine lege ” . He was still in the III. Civil Senate active. On May 1, 1937, he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 5,823,897). After the end of the war he was appointed public prosecutor in 1947 at the public prosecutor's office at the Munich District Court I. On December 20, 1950, he became a federal judge at the Federal Court of Justice. He retired on December 30, 1952. In 1953 he was appointed a member of the German-Allied pardon committee to review war crimes convictions. He worked there until June 1958.
Honors
- April 20, 1938: Silver Loyalty Service Medal
- February 1, 1939: Loyalty Service Medal
- 1953: Cross of Merit (Steckkreuz) of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1957: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Works
- The total offer in the Reich Foreclosure Auction Law, Diss. Erlangen 1907.
- The complete offer in the Reichs Zwangsversteigerungsgesetz, contributions to the explanation of the German law, volume 51 (1907), p. 335 ; P. 449 .
- The criminal exploitation of the criminal biological reports, communications of the criminal biological society Volume 3, Graz 1931, p. 41ff.
literature
- Klaus-Detlev Godau-Schüttke : The Federal Court of Justice - Justice in Germany -, Berlin 2005, p. 159; ISBN 3922654665 .
- Friedrich Karl Kaul , History of the Reichsgericht, Volume IV (1933–1945), East Berlin 1971, p. 278.
Web links
- Federal Archives: “The Cabinet Protocols of the Federal Government” online, # Edition> # Biographien> # Biographien AL> # L> # Lersch, Emil
- Photo taken in the Reichstag fire process from the Leipzig City History Museum (Z0057128) on Europeana
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dagmar Pöpping , Anke Silomon, Karl-Heinz Fix: The protocols of the council of the Evangelical Church in Germany. Vol. 6: 1952 (work on contemporary church history. Series A: Sources, Volume 14) Göttingen 2008; P. 478.
- ↑ Robert Sigel: Dachau Trials and the German Public , in: Ludwig Eiber , Robert Sigl (Ed.): Dachau Trials - Nazi Crimes Before American Military Courts in Dachau 1945 - 1948 , Göttingen 2007, p. 80.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lersch, Emil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German judge at the Reichsgericht and at the Federal Supreme Court |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 17, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 8, 1963 |
| Place of death | Munich |