Erich Volkmar
Erich Volkmar (born May 7, 1879 in Charlottenburg ; † July 24, 1951 in Bückeburg ) was a German lawyer and ministerial official .
Volkmar contributed significantly to the partial reforms of the civil process in the Weimar Republic and in the time of National Socialism and wrote important papers on labor court proceedings.
Life
After graduating from the Kaiserin-Augusta-Gymnasium in the Prussian Charlottenburg (today part of Berlin ) Volkmar studied law at the University of Berlin ; the first state exam he passed in 1900, the second state examination in 1905. Volkmar doctorate in 1900 in Berlin with the dissertation "Vis Major and operating risk" to Dr. jur. From 1900 to 1909 he worked as a collaborator in Roman law research projects under Professor Bernhard Kübler and at the same time as an unskilled worker in the Prussian Ministry of Justice.
In 1905 Volkmar became a court professor and worked at the Rixdorf district court with representations in Thorn, Cottbus and Potsdam (public prosecutor's office) and at courts in Berlin. 1908 was a local judge in Schöneberg . In 1911 he worked at both the Berlin II district court and the Schöneberg district court. In 1913 he was called back to the Prussian Ministry of Justice; in the same year he was appointed regional judge. In 1914 he worked as an assistant judge at the Supreme Court . In the First World War he did his military service in the military administration in the east. In 1919 he was appointed member of the chamber judge; in September of that year he was appointed to the Reich Ministry of Justice , where he was promoted to government councilor on January 1, 1920, to ministerial councilor (civil procedure department) in June 1920 and to ministerial director (head of the department for civil law and civil procedure law) in October 1931.
In 1934 Volkmar became President of the Senate at the Reichserbhofgericht . In 1935 he became a member of the Reich Committee for the Protection of German Blood . In 1938 he received a position as honorary professor for civil procedural law at the University of Berlin. From 1935 to 1939 he was chairman of the committee for civil justice at the Academy for German Law .
An application made by Volkmar in 1940 to join the NSDAP was refused.
On February 1, 1943, Volkmar was put into early retirement, but reactivated for a few months in June of the same year in order to continue working at the Reichserbhofgericht.
In the GDR , Erich Volkmar, Alexander Elster and Günther Küchenhoff published the legal development of the years 1933–1935 / 36 (de Gruyter, Berlin & Leipzig 1937) on the list of literature to be segregated.
literature
- Werner Schubert (ed.): Academy for German Law, 1933–1945, minutes of the committees . Volume III, 2 (Committee on Family Law. Subcommittee on Matrimonial Property Law). De Gruyter, Berlin & New York 1989. ISBN 3-11-011911-0 . P. 52.
Web links
- Literature by and about Erich Volkmar in the catalog of the German National Library
- Erich Volkmar in the online version of the files edition of the Reich Chancellery. Weimar Republic
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Volkmar, Erich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and ministerial official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 7, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Charlottenburg , Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 24, 1951 |
| Place of death | Buckeburg |