Erich Pritsch

Erich Pritsch (born June 24, 1887 in Posen ; † August 5, 1961 in Cologne ) was a German lawyer.

Career

After graduating from high school, Pritsch studied law in Berlin and became a member of the Catholic student association K.St.V.Askania in the KV . The 1908 legal traineeship was followed by a doctorate at the University of Rostock in November 1910. After the assessor exam, he entered the judicial service and became a judge at the District Court III Berlin. From 1930 he worked in the Prussian Ministry of Justice and from 1935 as Ministerialrat in the Reich Ministry of Justice .

In 1947 Pritsch became Senate President at the Supreme Court for the British Zone, from 1950 to 1953 he was Senate President at the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe. Since 1948 he was also an honorary professor for comparative law and oriental law at the University of Bonn.

In 1938, in connection with the forcible displacement of the rightful owner Adam Leonhard, Pritsch became managing editor of the journal for comparative law in connection with the Academy for German Law, alongside the nominal new editor, Axel von Freytagh-Loringhoven .

Honors

• 1953: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1961: Honorary doctorate from the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bonn

literature

• Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? : the German Who's Who. , Berlin: Arani, 1955.
• Bärbel Holtz (Ed.): The minutes of the Prussian State Ministry 1925-1938 / 38. Vol. 12 / II. (1925-1938) . Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 2004. ISBN 3-487-12704-0 ( Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences [Hg.]: Acta Borussica . New series .)