Erich Zander (politician)

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Erich Zander on an election poster for the 1961 federal election

Erich Zander (born September 7, 1906 in Elsfleth ; † March 12, 1985 in Raubling , district of Rosenheim ) was a German judge and politician ( CDU ). In Bremen he was a senator.

Life

Zander attended high school in Bremerhaven . From 1926 he studied law at the Eberhard Karls University and became active in the Corps Borussia Tübingen . As an inactive he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . In 1932 he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD . From 1934 to 1955 he was a public prosecutor and judge in Bremen and Bremerhaven . During the National Socialist era, Zander was also a public prosecutor at the special court in Bremen. In 1939 he served as a soldier in the Wehrmacht .

In 1945 he was dismissed from the judiciary by order of the military government. He was therefore the legal counsel in the office of the Bremen Evangelical Church until 1946 . In 1946 he was re-admitted as a public prosecutor by the American military government and from 1947 worked as a judge in Bremen. In 1955 he retired from the public service as district court director, chairman of a chamber for commercial matters and representative of the district court president in Bremen.

After 1955, Zander was a lawyer and notary and after 1960 he was also the syndic of the Norddeutsche Kreditbank .

politics

In May 1933 he joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party . He had been a member of the Nazi legal guardian association since 1936 . In 1948 he was denazified as a fellow traveler . In 1955 he became a member of the CDU .

From December 28, 1955 to December 21, 1959 he was the successor of Theodor Spitta Senator for Justice, Constitution and Church Affairs in Senate Kaisen V of the grand coalition of Wilhelm Kaisen ; Ulrich Graf (politician, 1912) followed him as senator. Afterwards he was a member of the Bremen citizenship from 1959 to 1971 . From 1963 to 1971 he was Vice President of the City Council.

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 21 , 519
  2. Dissertation: The legal position of the ship broker (with special consideration of the Bremen situation) .