Ferdinand Gerlach

This article deals with the judge Ferdinand Gerlach. For the physician, see Ferdinand M. Gerlach .

Ferdinand Gerlach (born May 31, 1886 in Aschaffenburg , † June 27, 1941 in Munich ) was a German judge .

Life

The son of a Catholic businessman passed the first state examination in law in 1909 and passed the second with good in 1913 (place number 4 out of 304 candidates). In mid-May 1914 he became a permanent, legally qualified unskilled worker in the Bavarian Ministry of Justice. On May 1, 1915 he became III. Public prosecutor at the Regional Court of Munich I, leaving the Ministry of Justice. He served in the First World War as a first lieutenant in the reserve, most recently as judge-martial in the war ministry . After the war, he continued his career in the Ministry of Justice: on April 1, 1919, he was appointed district judge at the Munich District Court. II. He became public prosecutor at the District Court of Munich I in November 1919, and at the District Court of Munich I in 1920. From 1920 to 1922 he was employed in the Army Administration Office. In 1923 he returned to the judiciary as second public prosecutor at the district court of Munich I. In a service assessment, he was considered "particularly capable". In mid-April 1925 he became a councilor at the Munich Regional Court, and in May 1930 he became a senior prosecutor there. Two months later he became the district court director and unskilled worker at the Reich Court. In mid-August 1932 he became a Reich judge. On the New Year of 1938, he had to retire on the basis of Section 6 of the Law for the Restoration of the Civil Service . He had been married to Goldschmidt, born in 1914, who had converted from Judaism to Catholicism. Originally, the Reich Ministry of Justice had provided Gerlach with a council office at the Munich Higher Regional Court under Section 5 I. This has been abandoned again without giving a reason. The thoroughbred lawyer died of a "broken heart", as his wife said. The wife and son survived due to fortunate circumstances.

Fonts

• Ten solutions from the criminal procedural law of the state examination tasks 1921–1929. Munich 1931.
• Ten solutions from civil law (BGB, obligations) for the state examination tasks 1921–1926. Munich 1931.

literature

• Friedrich Karl Kaul : History of the Reichsgericht. Volume IV: 1933-1945. Berlin 1971, p. 270.
• Reinhard Weber : Legal power - Jewish judicial employees in Bavaria after 1933. Ed. By the Bavarian Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection . JVA Landsberg 2012, pp. 81, 100, 149.

Individual evidence

1. ^ To Kaul: November 1919 II. StA at the LG Munich I
2. ↑ Susanna Schrafstetter: Escape and hiding. Jews in hiding in Munich - experience of persecution and everyday life after the war, Göttingen 2015, p. 107.