Ernst Sontag

Ernst Julius Sontag (born March 6, 1873 in Breslau ; † August 31, 1955 in Lugano ) was a German lawyer .

Life

He was promoted to Dr. iur. doctorate , in 1895 he entered the civil service. In 1905 he was appointed magistrate. In 1912 he was a magistrate in Katowice . In 1912 he became a district judge in Berlin and in 1913 a district judge . In 1919 he became a judge at the Higher Regional Court in Breslau , and in 1920 he was a member of the Chamber Court in Berlin. He was active as a writer. His Korfanty monograph is still quoted. Horst Bienek took him as a model for his fictional character Georg Montag in The First Polka . In July 1927 he came to the Reichsgericht as Reich Judge . In 1930 he retired at his request. In the 1930s he lived in Berlin NW 87 . He was an important contributor to the Republican journal Die Justiz . For example, he fought the worsening legal status of civil servants during the global economic crisis . As a Reich judge, he wrote in his work The Teacher in the Emergency Ordinance : “The ordinances that cut teachers' salaries are unconstitutional and therefore ineffective. The reduction of working engages the established rights of the civil one. "Sontag emigrated as a Jew in Switzerland . He last lived in Lugano.

Works (selection)

Books

• The stock corporations , 1918
• The French rule in Upper Silesia , 1920
• Tenancy law , 1924–1927
• Compensation for princes over the past 100 years , 1926
• Commentary on the Law on the Deferment of Appreciation Mortgages , 1930
• Korfanty . A contribution to the history of the Polish claims to Upper Silesia , 1954

Essays

• "Offsetting against a claim consisting of the main performance, interest and costs (Section 396² BGB)", Archive for Civil Law, Volume 21 (1902), p. 10
• "The reintegration of the commercial, merchant and guild arbitration courts into the ordinary administration of justice", Journal for German Civil Proceedings, Volume 37 (1908), p. 331 .
• "The application of compulsory testimony against members of the Reichstag", Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung, Volume 11 (1906), Col. 1010 .
• "Criminal psychological experiments in the courtroom", Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung, year 12 (1907), column 63 .
• “The defense of forfeiture in the right to revalue”, Juristische Rundschau 1928, pp. 81–82
• “On the forfeiture of the revaluation”, Juristische Rundschau 1928, pp. 123–124
• " Ernst Fuchs' Influence on German Jurisprudence", Leipzig Journal for German Law, Volume XXIII (1929), Col. 689.
• "Leipzig and the Reichsgericht", Die Justiz VI (1930/31), p. 639.

Literature (selection)

• Walter Tetzlaff: 2000 short biographies of important German Jews of the 20th century. Askania, Lindhorst 1982, ISBN 3-921730-10-4 .
• Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .
• Adolf Lobe : Fifty Years of the Reich Court on October 1, 1929 , Berlin 1929, p. 388.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Renate Heuer : Bibliographia Judaica: Directory of Jewish Authors in the German Language, Volume 3, Page 89, Campus Verlag, 1988.
2. ↑ Rober Buzcek: "At Horst Bieneks Upper Silesian prose", in: Pawel Zimniak, Edward Bialek: Silesia in Litteris Servata: paradigms of memory in texts Silesian authors after 1946 , Dresden 2010, p 98th
3. ^ Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung 1930, column 153
4. ↑ Quotation from Judith Grünfeld: Frauenarbeit und Faschismus; in: Die Arbeit 9, 1932, S. 424, 431.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.7 MB)