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Ferdinand Georg Altschüler (born February 25, 1883 in Kaiserslautern ; died August 8, 1954 in Heidelberg ) was a German lawyer .

Life

Altschüler was born on February 25, 1883 in Kaiserslautern. He studied law at the universities of Munich and Heidelberg. In 1913 he entered the Bavarian judicial service and married four years later. His career took him to Frankenthal (Palatinate) in 1931 , where he was a district judge and judge at the district court .

At the age of 50, old school students were retired by the National Socialists on the basis of the law for the restoration of the civil service . In March 1942 he was taken into protective custody. It was not until the middle of February 1945 that he was sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp because his evangelical wife, Sofia, née. Labroisse had refused to divorce.

Old school students survived and returned to Frankenthal in 1945 after the liberation. In the same year he was first director of the local court and then president of the regional court. He held this office until 1949, the year the Federal Republic of Germany was founded.

The couple moved to Heidelberg, where Ferdinand Georg Altschüler died on August 8, 1954. His widow, who came from Neustadt an der Haardt , survived him by almost ten years.

Stumbling block for Ferdinand Georg old school student

Quote

The fact that ideals are allowed to inspire us again
makes life worth living in the midst of ruins and tears,
it is important to clear away the ruins and dry the tears, but
above all to ennoble life more and more.

Ferdinand Georg Altschüler, 1945.

Honors

As part of the Stolpersteine project , the artist Gunter Demnig laid a memorial stone for old school students in front of the Frankenthal district court on April 12, 2019.

literature

Harald Jenet (Ed.): Ferdinand Georg Altschüler (1883–1954). In: Lawyer Without Law. District Court Frankenthal (Pfalz) 2019. Paul Theobald: Jewish fellow citizens in Frankenthal with Eppstein and Flomersheim from 1800 to 1940. January 2014.