Erich Aron

Erich Aron (born October 24, 1857 in Esens , † May 8, 1943 in Theresienstadt concentration camp ) was a German lawyer , district court director and university professor .

Life

Erich Aron was born in Esens in 1857 as the son of the teacher Samuel Aron and his wife Klara Stahl. Esens is a small town in the East Frisian district of Wittmund in Lower Saxony . Erich Aron was of Jewish faith and grew up in the Jewish community of Esens, which had existed since the 17th century . After school, Aron studied law at the University of Heidelberg and at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . After graduation and the doctorate to Dr. jur. in Berlin, he became a trainee lawyer in Strasbourg in 1880 . Five years later he was an assessor at the Strasbourg Regional Court . He finally made it to the regional court director in Strasbourg in 1907. In the last year of the First World War , he was appointed honorary professor at the University of Strasbourg .

After the end of the First World War and the conclusion of the Versailles Treaty , Alsace fell to France. Erich Aron therefore lost all of his offices. The 62-year-old Aron therefore moved to the TH Darmstadt in 1919 . He initially received a teaching position for labor and trade law . In 1921 he became a private lecturer at the TH Darmstadt with a teaching position for labor and tax law . In December 1924, Aron was made a full honorary professor. On April 23, 1929, he finally became a personal professor, after receiving his PhD from Heidelberg University on April 22, 1929. phil. had acquired. Aron was highly valued in his department and, despite his advanced age, was elected dean of the department for cultural and political sciences from 1930 to 1932 . After the so-called “Lieser” affair at the TH Darmstadt, named after Karl Lieser , Erich Aron retired as a “non-Aryan” in 1933 with reference to the law to restore the civil service .

Aron moved to Stuttgart after his release, but did not emigrate because of his old age. On April 16, 1943, he was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp with a small group of around 20 Jews from Württemberg . The 86-year-old died there on May 8, 1943.

Erich Aron had been married to Johanna Straßburger (1870–1949) from Mannheim since 1882 . The marriage resulted in three daughters.

Honors

• 1910: Appointment to the Privy Council of Justice.

Publications

• The Civil Code in its current scope for Alsace-Lorraine ... Mannheim 1893.
• The law concerning the implementation of the civil code in Alsace-Lorraine of April 17, 1899. Berlin 1899.
• Lordship and servants. Düsseldorf 1900.
• The deposit regulations of March 14, 1879 with the amendments by the implementation law to the civil code of September 20, 1899 and the decrees issued. Hanover 1900.
• The laws of the German Empire regarding the post, telegraph and telephone (telephone) system ... Leipzig 1902.
• The Reich Inheritance Tax Act: with explanations and implementing provisions. Tubingen 1907.
• The Inheritance Tax Act of September 10, 1919 with explanations and implementing provisions. Düsseldorf 1920.

literature

• Article Erich Aron. in: Stadtlexikon Darmstadt. Stuttgart 2006, p. 45.
• Melanie Hanel: The Technical University of Darmstadt in the “Third Reich”. Dissertation, Darmstadt 2013.
• Christa Wolf and Marianne Viefhaus: Directory of professors at TH Darmstadt. Darmstadt 1977, p. 16.