Ernst Rittweger (judge)

Ernst Rittweger (born September 18, 1890 in Bochum , † December 2, 1946 in special camp No. 1 Mühlberg ) was a German judge .

Life

Buchwald was the son of an evangelical senior government councilor (Dr. phil). He passed the first state law examination in 1916 with “distinction”, the second in 1920 with “good”. In the same year he received his doctorate in Jena . From November 1920 to the end of April 1922 he worked as a court assessor in the State Ministry of Saxony-Meiningen and, after the formation of the State of Thuringia, with the regional government in Meiningen. He then worked as a court assessor at the public prosecutor's office in Meiningen. In October 1923 he became a district judge in Meiningen and in early July 1929 a higher district judge in Jena. December 1937 he became a laborer at the Reichsgericht . On May 1, 1938, he was appointed Reich judge. He was active in the 1st and 2nd Criminal Senate. After his arrest in 1945 by the NKVD , he died on December 2, 1946 in special camp No. 1 in Mühlberg .

Fonts

Critical consideration of the case law of the Reichsgericht regarding preventive injunctive relief , Diss. Jena 1920.

Memberships

May 1, 1937 NSDAP ( membership number 5.909.291)
May 30, 1934 Supporting member of the SS

Honors

June 26, 1938 Silver Medal of Honor

literature

Friedrich Karl Kaul : History of the Reichsgericht, Volume IV (1933-1945) , East Berlin 1971, p. 287.

Individual evidence

^ Initiative group Lager Mühlberg e. V. (Ed.): Book of the Dead - Special Camp No. 1 of the Soviet NKVD, Mühlberg / Elbe , Mühlberg / Elbe, 2008, p. 156, ISBN 9783000269998
^ Bernward Dörner : insidiousness. The law as a weapon. Control, deterrence and persecution in Germany 1933–1945 , Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh 1998, p. 309.
↑ August Schaefer : The great dying in the Reichsgericht , DRiZ 1957, p. 249.

personal data
SURNAME	Rittweger, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Imperial Judge
DATE OF BIRTH	September 18, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bochum
DATE OF DEATH	December 2, 1946
Place of death	Special camp No. 1 Mühlberg

[1] Initiative group Lager Mühlberg e. V. (Ed.): Book of the Dead - Special Camp No. 1 of the Soviet NKVD, Mühlberg / Elbe , Mühlberg / Elbe, 2008, p. 156, ISBN 9783000269998

[2] Bernward Dörner : insidiousness. The law as a weapon. Control, deterrence and persecution in Germany 1933–1945 , Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh 1998, p. 309.

[3] August Schaefer : The great dying in the Reichsgericht , DRiZ 1957, p. 249.