Ernst Mayer (judge)

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Ernst Mayer (born March 10, 1872 in Mainz , † June 19, 1943 in Frankfurt-Heddernheim ) was a German lawyer and higher regional judge .

family

Ernst Mayer was born in Mainz in March 1872 as the son of a Jewish businessman. Since January 4, 1905, he was married to the Mainz Christian Elisabeth Aull (born 1883). The sons Hans (born 1905) and Clemens (born 1908) emerged from the connection. Both were baptized Catholics. Hans Mayer later became director of the fire insurance chamber in Darmstadt. Clemens became a gynecologist and had a practice in Bonn.

Life

Ernst Mayer attended the humanistic grammar school in Mainz and passed the school leaving examination in July 1891. Then he studied in Strasbourg, Berlin, Munich and Marburg law . In 1896 he earned his doctorate in law at the University of Marburg with a thesis on state authority and legislation in Alsace-Lorraine . He then became a court assessor in Mainz.

In July 1904 he became a public prosecutor at the Mainz Regional Court . In October 1912 he was appointed district judge at the Mainz district court as a district judge.

During the First World War he was temporarily entrusted with the management of a public prosecutor in Mainz who was called to serve in the army.

In September 1920 he was promoted to the regional court advisor at the Mainz regional court. In March 1924 he moved to the Mainz district court. At the beginning of 1925, Mayer was appointed senior judge at the Darmstadt Higher Regional Court . From mid-March 1925 he was a member of the Administrative Court of the People's State of Hesse .

After the seizure of power by the Nazis in Hesse Jewish judges were forced out of their posts.

The unit responsible State Philipp Wilhelm Jung had higher a number, middle and lower judiciary officials who a few years before her on June 6, 1933 retirement were, the invitation addressed voluntarily their early transfer to the final retirement to apply. Although Ernst Mayer had converted to the Protestant religious community in 1899, he also received Jung's invitation. He then applied for his retirement. On June 17, 1933, after 40 years of service at the age of 61, he received the certificate of discharge with effect from October 1, 1933.

Since he was married to a Christian, he was initially protected from the deportations that began. On April 30, 1943, the Gestapo in Darmstadt issued orders to arrest Jews living in “mixed marriages”. At the beginning of May 1943 Ernst Mayer was arrested and deported to the "labor education camp" in Frankfurt-Heddernheim .

The 71-year-old Ernst Mayer was unable to cope with the numerous hardships of this camp and died there just under a month after his admission.

The Gestapo officer Georg Dengler, head of the Darmstadt Jewish Department, and his superior, Robert Mohr , the head of the Darmstadt Gestapo , who were responsible for the imprisonment of Ernst Mayer, stood before court in the 1950s and 1960s and were given a Nazi regime -Common Crime. In the case of the trial against Georg Dengler, in which Ernst Mayer's son Clemens Mayer appeared as a witness, six years in prison were imposed for complicity in serious deprivation of liberty in office, resulting in death in six cases.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Dengler's biography online in the Lexicon of the German Peace Society , Darmstadt group
personal data
SURNAME Mayer, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and higher regional judge
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1943
Place of death Frankfurt-Heddernheim