Ernst Mannsfeld

Ernst Mannsfeld (born July 26, 1897 ; † March 30, 1953 ) was a German lawyer and politician ( LDPD ). From 1950 to 1953 he was a member of the GDR Land Chamber .

Life

Mannsfeld, son of the former Saxon Minister of Justice Karl Emil Mannsfeld , studied law at the University of Leipzig from 1915 to 1920 . His studies were interrupted from 1916 to 1918 due to his participation in the First World War. He was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD and then employed in the Saxon judicial service at the Dresden Public Prosecutor's Office. In 1927 he became a district judge. From 1931 he was also an assistant for training issues in the Saxon Ministry of Justice. After Hitler came to power in 1933, he was dismissed from this position. In 1943 he was ordered to the Dresden District Court to transfer the land register and in 1944 he was released for the armaments industry.

In May 1945 he found work again at the Dresden District Court and became the representative of the provisional head of the authority. In 1945 he joined the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDPD). In July 1945 he was hired in the state administration of Saxony in the justice department, then from September 1945 he worked in the justice and health care department, civil procedure law department. In October 1945 he was appointed district court director and ministerial advisor. From October 1947 he was a ministerial director member of the justice administration of the state government of Saxony and head of the department for public law and social law, civil justice, human resources and economic administration. In July 1949 he was appointed President of the Senate at the Dresden Higher Regional Court.

On November 3, 1950, at the constituent session of the Saxon Landtag, he was elected a member of the Land Chamber of the GDR , although he was not a member of the newly elected Landtag.

In the summer of 1952, the government of the GDR appointed him a member of a commission to draft a new penal code.

Mannsfeld was also a member of the LDPD district committee in Dresden and, since 1952, a member of the review commission of the LDPD party leadership.

literature

• Martin Broszat , Hermann Weber (Ed.): SBZ manual. State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany 1945-1949 , Oldenbourg, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-486-55261-9 , p. 144 u. P. 973.
• Ulf Sommer: The Liberal Democratic Party of Germany. A bloc party led by the SED . Agenda, Münster 1996, ISBN 3-929440-88-1 , p. 323.
• Andreas Thüsing: A new democratic beginning? Development, organization and transformation of the Saxon Ministry of Justice 1945–1950 (= Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism: Reports and Studies, 42). Hannah Arendt Institute, Dresden 2003, ISBN 3-931648-46-X , p. 42 and passim.
• Andreas Thüsing (Ed.): The Presidium of the State Administration of Saxony. The minutes of the meetings from July 9, 1945 to December 10, 1946 . Vandenhoeck, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-525-36916-6 , p. 528f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Minutes of the 1st session of the Saxon State Parliament on November 3, 1950, p. 5.