Erwin Noack (lawyer)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Erwin Noack (born February 11, 1899 in Spandau ; † July 11, 1967 in Kell am See ) was a German lawyer and National Socialist official .

Life

After attending school in Jauer and Cottbus , Erwin Noack took part in the First World War from 1917 to 1918 , from which he was discharged after a rapid promotion as a lieutenant. Because of his bravery he was awarded the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class. Noack studied law and political science at the University of Halle and became a trainee lawyer in 1922.

Despite serious leg injuries caused by the war, he became a member of the Escherich Organization (2nd Battalion Halle), the later Stahlhelm , to which he belonged until 1931, and took an active part in the Kapp Putsch . Noack became the leader of a police student hundred in the March fighting in central Germany .

Noack his doctorate in 1924 , Dr. iur. Two years later he passed the assessor examination and took over a law practice in Halle (Saale) . In 1933 he was also licensed as a notary.

In 1931 he joined the NSDAP and in 1932 the SA . Since he had belonged to the Masonic lodge “Burg am Saalestrande” and the German-speaking association for the cultivation of friendship, art and humor “ Schlaraffia ” during his student days in Halle, party proceedings against him were opened in 1934. The party court decided that he could still be used as a political leader . From September 1933 to June 1934 he was President of the Provincial Synod of the Church Province of Saxony .

After the Prussian Ministry of Culture had advocated Noack, he was given a teaching position at the University of Halle in April 1934 and was appointed honorary professor in July of the same year. In the course of the following years he received several honorary and party positions. For example, Noack was Senate President of the 2nd Senate of the Court of Honor for Lawyers, Vice President of the Reich Bar Association, member of the National Socialist Academy for German Law and member of the "National Synod".

As a professor and lawyer in Halle, he ran on the nomination of the NSDAP on the list with the number 525 in the election to the German Reichstag on March 29, 1936 , but did not enter the National Socialist Reichstag .

In 1937 Noack became the head of the office for legal guardians in the Reich Legal Office of the NSDAP. For this he was given leave of absence from the University of Halle, but in 1938 he received a teaching position at the University of Berlin. Noack continued to live in Halle and was a member of the university teaching staff until the end of the war. After Halle was occupied by American troops, Noack was arrested by the Americans. After his release he left the Soviet Occupation Zone (SBZ) and settled in the climatic health resort of Kell am See.

In the Soviet occupation zone, Noack's writings, The Legislation of the Third Reich (together with Otto Schwarz ; Heymann , Berlin 1934), The New Professional Law of the Lawyers (Moeser, Leipzig 1936), Commentary on the Reich Lawyers' Act in the version of February 21, 1936 (Moeser , Leipzig 1937), The Legislation of the Third Reich (Heymann, Berlin 1938), German Democracy (with GA Walz; Deutscher Rechtsverlag, Berlin 1938) and Reich Defense Laws (Deutscher Rechtsverlag, Berlin 1939) put on the list of literature to be segregated. In the German Democratic Republic , this list was followed by a comment on the Reich Lawyers' Act (Moeser, Leipzig 1937) and People, Law and Law (Deutscher Rechts-Verlag, Berlin 1938).

Erwin Nock worked as a lawyer in the Federal Republic. He became known as one of the two defenders of Otto Remer in the Remer trial in 1952. The Frankfurter Rundschau reported on Noack's anti-Semitic publications during the Nazi era . He died in 1967 in Kell am See.

literature

  • Henrik Eberle: The Martin Luther University in the time of National Socialism. Mdv, Halle 2002, ISBN 3-89812-150-X , p. 298

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Handbook of the German Protestant Churches 1918 to 1949: Organe - Ämter - Personen. Volume 2: State and Provincial Churches. Edited by Karl-Heinz Fix, Carsten Nicolaisen and Ruth Pabst. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-525-55794-5 , p. 249.
  2. ^ Yearbook of the Academy for German Law, 1st year 1933/34. Edited by Hans Frank. (Munich, Berlin, Leipzig: Schweitzer Verlag), p. 255
  3. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-s.html
  4. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-d.html
  5. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-n.html
  6. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1953-nslit-n.html
  7. ↑ Heiko Buschke: German press, right-wing extremism and the National Socialist past in the Adenauer era . Frankfurt 2003, ISBN 978-3-593-37344-7 , p. 199.
personal data
SURNAME Noack, Erwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and National Socialist functionary
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Spandau
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 1967
Place of death Kell by the lake