Erich Zweigert (State Secretary)

Interior Minister Gayl , Reichswehr Minister Schleicher and State Secretary Zweigert (right) 1932

Erich Zweigert (born November 20, 1879 in Perleberg ; † October 23, 1947 ) was a German lawyer and ministerial official . From 1923 to 1933 he was State Secretary and Minister's representative in the Reich Ministry of the Interior .

Life and work

Zweigert was born in Perleberg in 1879 as the son of the later mayor of Essen, Erich Zweigert . His brother Kurt Zweigert was later a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court. Erich attended the Thomas School in Leipzig until 1898 . He then studied law and was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD.

After passing the state law examination and subsequent legal traineeship, Zweigert worked as an assistant judge at the Higher Regional Court in Poznan from 1908. In 1913 he became a Privy Councilor and later a lecturer in the Reich Justice Office . In 1919 he worked for the Reich Ministry of Justice as general advisor for constitutional law . In 1920 he became a ministerial advisor . In 1923 he explained the Republic Protection Act together with Wilhelm Kiesow .

In 1923, the Social Democratic Minister Wilhelm Sollmann appointed him to succeed Johann Michael Freiherr von Welser as State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of the Interior . Zweigert remained in this position, additionally entrusted with the deputy of the minister, until the National Socialists came to power in January 1933. As early as 1930 he had spoken out against the NSDAP in the so-called Ulm Reichswehr Trial. From 1936 to 1938 he worked for Carl Heymanns Verlag in Berlin.

His son Konrad Zweigert was later a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court.

Web links

Literature by and about Erich Zweigert in the catalog of the German National Library
Short biography in the files of the Reich Chancellery

Individual evidence

^ The Parliamentary Council 1948–1949. Files and minutes. Volume 13: Committee for Federal Organizations, Committee for Constitutional History and the Administration of Justice, Volume 1. R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 3-486-56563-X , p. 206.
↑ Richard Sachse, Karl Ramshorn, Reinhart Herz: The teachers of the Thomasschule in Leipzig 1832-1912. The high school graduates of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1845–1912 . BG Teubner Verlag, Leipzig 1912, p. 97.
^ Klaus Wallbaum: The defector. Rudolf Diels (1900–1957). The first Gestapo head of the Hitler regime . Dissertation, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-59818-4 , p. 77.

personal data
SURNAME	Zweigert, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and ministerial official
DATE OF BIRTH	November 20, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pearl Mountain
DATE OF DEATH	October 23, 1947

[1] The Parliamentary Council 1948–1949. Files and minutes. Volume 13: Committee for Federal Organizations, Committee for Constitutional History and the Administration of Justice, Volume 1. R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 3-486-56563-X , p. 206.

[2] Richard Sachse, Karl Ramshorn, Reinhart Herz: The teachers of the Thomasschule in Leipzig 1832-1912. The high school graduates of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1845–1912 . BG Teubner Verlag, Leipzig 1912, p. 97.

[3] Klaus Wallbaum: The defector. Rudolf Diels (1900–1957). The first Gestapo head of the Hitler regime . Dissertation, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-59818-4 , p. 77.