Erich Lawall
Erich Heinrich Ludwig Lawall (born June 28, 1899 in Saarbrücken ; † September 16, 1973 there ) was a German lawyer .
life and career
Lawall was born the son of a senior seminar teacher and started school in Saarbrücken in 1905 . From 1909 he attended the municipal Ludwigsgymnasium , three years later Lawall moved to the Realgymnasium , where he passed his secondary school diploma in June 1917 . After joining the German Army as a flag junior , Lawall fought at the front until the end of the First World War . Lawall was awarded the Iron Cross II and I Class, the Friedrich August Cross II Class, the Cross of Honor for Frontline Fighters and the Silesian Probation Badge II Class for his work. In May 1920 he resigned from the Reichswehr as a lieutenant .
In the summer semester of 1920, Lawall enrolled at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in law . During his studies he became a member of the Saxo-Silesia Freiburg fraternity in 1920 . With the Freikorps Oberland in 1921 he took part in the suppression of the uprisings in Upper Silesia. After three semesters, Lawall moved to the Philipps University of Marburg in the winter semester of 1921/22 and passed his first state examination in Kassel in May 1923 with the grade “sufficient”. Only 13 days later he received his doctorate in law from the University of Marburg ; his dissertation “A contribution to the concept of the physical object (§ 90 BGB )” was rated “rite”. After the swearing in public service Lawall began in July 1923 Traineeship in the Higher Regional Court of Cologne , which also includes the Saar counted at that time. In June 1926 he passed his second state examination in Berlin, again with the grade “sufficient”. He then worked in the judicial administration of the Saar region, including as an assistant judge at the district courts of Saarbrücken, Tholey , Saarlouis and Lebach .
During the Second World War he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross . In 1942 he was the commander of the 98 Mountain Hunter Regiment . From June 1943 to 1944 he was President of the Higher Regional Court of Cologne and from 1959 to 1964 of the Higher Regional Court of Saarbrücken . From 1959 to 1964 he was also President of the Constitutional Court of Saarland .
The eleventh President of the Federal Republic of Germany Joachim Gauck is on the originating from the Saarland husband of his aunt with Lawall verschwägert been.
literature
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 3: I-L. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0865-0 , pp. 255-256.
- Moritz von Köckritz: The German Higher Regional Court Presidents in National Socialism (1933-1945) (= legal historical series. Volume 413). Peter Lang GmbH, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-61791-5 , pp. 251-259.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lawall, Erich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lawall, Erich Heinrich Ludwig (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 28, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saarbrücken |
| DATE OF DEATH | 16th September 1973 |
| Place of death | Saarbrücken |