Ernst Stargardt

Ernst Stargardt (born December 30, 1883 in Berlin ; † 1954 ) was a German lawyer and politician ( CDU ). From 1946 to 1950 he was Justice Minister of the State of Brandenburg .

Life

Stargardt, born the son of a lawyer, worked as a lawyer himself until 1920. From 1922 he was a public prosecutor in Potsdam . Although his parents were Jews, he retained this post after 1933, as he had fought at the front in World War I and had been employed as a civil servant before the World War. Stargardt was Protestant and was involved in the Confessing Church . Because of this and because of his Jewish origins, he was dismissed in October 1935 and had to stay afloat as a private teacher. During the Second World War , many of his relatives were killed in concentration camps, and his wife was seriously damaged. As a result, after the end of the Second World War, he quickly succeeded in getting his post as chief prosecutor back.

politics

Stargardt was a member of the DNVP before 1933 . The Soviet military administration reinstated him on July 3, 1945 in the post of chief prosecutor. At that time he was also a member of the CDU regional association in Brandenburg. Stargardt was a member of the Association of Those Persecuted by the Nazi Regime and was appointed Justice Minister of Brandenburg in 1946. He was a member of the Committee on Law and Justice of the German People's Council . At the fifth meeting of this committee on September 3, 1948, he took part in the discussion together with his party colleague Reinhold Lobedanz ( CDU ) and commented on the implementation of Max Fechner's proposals for the establishment and safeguarding of a democratic justice system in a unified Germany.

As Minister of Justice in the state of Brandenburg, he remained extremely uninfluenced, also because his war injuries from the First World War - he had suffered 20 percent war damage - caused his health to deteriorate rapidly due to persecution by the National Socialists. He was sent to the cure every year from 1946 and was even absent for several months in 1948; Walther Hoeniger ran the business during his absence . He officially retained the ministerial post until August 1950. In August 1950, he fled the GDR to West Berlin .

literature

Martin Broszat : SBZ manual: State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany 1945-1949 , p. 1035, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1990, ISBN 3-486-55262-7

Individual evidence

^ Günter letter, Brigitte Kaff, Hans-Otto Kleinmann : Christian Democrats against Hitler, p. 475.
^ ^A ^b Dieter Pohl: Justice in Brandenburg 1945–1955. Synchronization and adaptation. (= Publications on SBZ / GDR research in the Institute for Contemporary History. ) Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2001, pp. 52, 53.
^ ^A ^b Katrin Baus, Rolf Baus: The founding of the Christian-Democratic Union of Germany in Brandenburg 1945. (= Historical-Political Messages. 6). 1999. ( PDF; 2.9 MB )
^ New Germany , September 4, 1948, p. 2

personal data
SURNAME	Stargardt, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and politician (CDU), MdV
DATE OF BIRTH	December 30, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	1954

[1] Günter letter, Brigitte Kaff, Hans-Otto Kleinmann : Christian Democrats against Hitler, p. 475.

[JustizBRA-2] A ^b Dieter Pohl: Justice in Brandenburg 1945–1955. Synchronization and adaptation. (= Publications on SBZ / GDR research in the Institute for Contemporary History. ) Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2001, pp. 52, 53.

[CDU_Brandenburg-3] A ^b Katrin Baus, Rolf Baus: The founding of the Christian-Democratic Union of Germany in Brandenburg 1945. (= Historical-Political Messages. 6). 1999. ( PDF; 2.9 MB )

[4] New Germany , September 4, 1948, p. 2