Ernst Dronke (lawyer)

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Ernst Adolf Alexander Dronke (born January 7, 1865 in Koblenz , † October 23, 1933 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German lawyer. From 1920 to 1930 he was President of the Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt am Main .

Life

Dronke came from a family of scholars and officers in Koblenz. He was born as the son of the high school director Adolf Dronke . He studied law at the University of Bonn . After completing his studies, legal clerkship and the second state examination, he became a court assessor in Trier, Koblenz and Elberfeld in the judiciary of the Prussian Rhine Province . He received his first judicial position in 1895 as a district judge in Sulzbach / Saar. In 1901 he became a district judge at the Cologne district court , and in 1906 a district court director. In 1909 Dronke moved to Berlin as a judge of the appellate court , where he became a full-time member of the judicial examination commission. Since 1910 he had the title of the Secret Upper Government Council and lecturing council in the Reich Justice Office . On December 31, 1919, Dronke - as the successor to the surprisingly deceased Hermann Schwartz - was appointed President of the Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt am Main, a position he held until he reached the age limit on April 1, 1930.

Close to the German Center Party , but not politically active, Dronke was considered very sociable. He had been friends with the later Chancellor Wilhelm Marx since his time as a test reporter in Elberfeld . In Frankfurt am Main maintained excellent connections to the city administration. For many years he was chairman of the German Language Association. In 1925 he chaired its general meeting, which was then held in Frankfurt. He also succeeded in establishing good connections between the Higher Regional Court and Frankfurt University . The university awarded Dronke an honorary doctorate in 1928 , and in 1930 he became honorary professor at the Frankfurt Faculty of Law.

Fonts

  • The Reich Law on Matters of Voluntary Jurisdiction of May 17, 1898. With notes and register . L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1898.
  • Language maintenance in the Prussian state budget . In: Journal of the General German Language Association (ZADS) 32, pp. 1–3 and 32–36.
  • Official language maintenance in the German Reich . In: Journal of the General German Language Association (ZADS) 36, pp. 57–59.
  • Academy and language maintenance. A layperson's observation . In: Journal of the General German Language Association (ZADS) 33 (1918), pp. 161–169.

literature

  • Erhard Zimmer: The history of the higher regional court in Frankfurt am Main. Kramer, Frankfurt am Main. 1976 ISBN 978-3-7829-0174-1 . P. 145 ff.
  • Arthur von Gruenewaldt: The judiciary of the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main in the time of National Socialism: Personnel policy and development , Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2015 ISBN 978-3-16-153843-8 (also dissertation, University of Kiel) p. 84

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