Ernst Schäfer (lawyer)

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Ernst Schäfer (born October 13, 1882 in Marburg , † July 9, 1945 in Rothenburg ob der Tauber ) was a German lawyer and ministerial conductor .

Life

Schäfer was the son of a secondary school teacher. In 1901 he passed his school leaving examination in his hometown. He then completed a law degree at the Universities of Berlin and Marburg, which he completed in 1904 with the first state examination in law. After completing his legal clerkship, he passed the second state examination in law in 1909. He joined the judicial service in Marburg in 1909 and was a judge at the Kiel District Court from 1911 . During the First World War , from 1917 on he was an assistant at the Reich Office of the Interior as a consultant at the Reich Arbitration Court for the war economy . In July 1918 he returned to the judicial service and was appointed regional judge in Kiel in 1920, where he also lectured on criminal and procedural law at the university. From 1919 to 1921 he was a member of the DDP .

In spring 1921 he joined the Prussian Ministry of Justice, where he was promoted to Ministerialrat in May 1921 and to Ministerial Director in 1927 . He was entrusted with the Prussian criminal law reform. From 1921 to 1929 he was Prussia's deputy representative to the Reichsrat.

In April 1929 he was promoted to ministerial director as successor to Erwin Bumke and head of the criminal law department in the Reich Ministry of Justice. From 1937 he belonged to the working group for juvenile criminal law of the Academy for German Law . After Otto Georg Thierack became Reich Minister of Justice in August 1942, the shepherd, who is considered a republican and catholic, applied for his retirement. Due to illness, he left office in early March 1943.

Works

  • Criminal Code for the German Reich, Law for the Protection of the Republic, Law on Fines, Military Criminal Code and others. Ancillary laws d. Rich u. Prussia with d. Provisions on d. suspended sentence , G. Stilke, Berlin 1922 (together with Fritz Hartung )
  • Criminal Law and Criminal Trial , G. Stilke, Berlin 1924 (together with Fritz Hartung)
  • Emergency economic laws and ordinances of the Reich as of July 15, 1924 together with d. official reason for d. most important ordinance and d. Execution order d. Reichs u. Prussia / Zsgest. with introductory u. Subject reg. Ernst Schäfer, G. Stilke, Berlin 1924
  • The penal legislation of the years 1931 to 1935 / Ed. U. Erl .: Ernst Schäfer; Hans v. Dohnanyi, Mohr, Tübingen 1936 (belongs to: The Criminal Code for the German Reich )

literature

  • Werner Schubert (Hrsg.): Sources for the reform of the criminal and criminal procedure law . Dept. 1: Weimar Republic (1918–1932), Vol. 1 Drafts for a Penal Code, de Gruyter, Berlin 1995, pp. XXVI – XXVII.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 523.
personal data
SURNAME Shepherd, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and ministerial director in the Reich Ministry of Justice
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg
DATE OF DEATH July 9, 1945
Place of death Rothenburg ob der Tauber