Friedrich Wilhelm Holland

Richard Friedrich-Wilhelm Holland (born November 12, 1903 in Braunschweig ; † August 20, 1979 there ) was a judge in Lower Saxony after the Second World War .

Life

Friedrich-Wilhelm Holland was the son of the future attorney general Wilhelm Holland . He attended the Wilhelm-Gymnasium (Braunschweig) . After graduating from high school in 1921, he enrolled in the summer semester of 1922 at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen for law. As a chestnut with the Corps Rhenania Tübingen , he had to retire after two lengths for health reasons. He moved to the University of Leipzig and the Georg-August University of Göttingen , which made him Dr. iur. PhD. On July 7, 1927 he became a Rhenania corps bow bearer . After passing both state exams with “good” , he entered the Brunswick civil service on June 1, 1929 as a court assessor.

At the beginning of 1933, Holland was to be appointed to the district court council in Eschershausen . After the law on civil servants was passed, this appointment was made dependent on the fact that Holland separated from his fiancée Ilse Heymann; the daughter of the Higher Regional Court Councilor Rudolf Heymann was considered “ not Aryan ” because of the Jewish origin of her grandfather - the Jewish lawyer and Braunschweig city councilor Victor Heymann . Holland decided against the civil service, in favor of the fiancée and settled in partnership with Volkerding in Braunschweig as a lawyer. Rhenania awarded him the ribbon on December 18, 1938.

Holland was drafted into the Wehrmacht in October 1940 and was taken prisoner by the English at the end of the war. Released in September 1945, he was appointed public prosecutor in October 1945 . From July 1946 he gained reputation as chairman of the so-called "Holland Committee", in which three unencumbered lawyers appointed by the British occupation authorities checked the Brunswick judiciary for Nazi contamination. In November 1946, Holland was appointed senior judge. After seven months as a speaker in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Justice , he was appointed Deputy President of the Higher Regional Court of Braunschweig (OLG) on March 1, 1949 , and on September 1, 1950, he became President of the Braunschweig Regional Court . In 1955 Holland returned as the successor to Bruno Heusinger as President of the OLG Braunschweig. In 1960 he became President of the Lower Saxony State Court . In 1968 he retired.

Honors

• 1969: Large Federal Cross of Merit with a star

literature

• Dieter Miosge : Dr. Friedrich-Wilhelm Holland (1903–1979). In: Edgar Isermann, Michael Schlüter (Ed.): Justice and Lawyers in Braunschweig 1879–2004: 125 years of the Higher Regional Court and the Braunschweig Bar Association. Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 2004, ISBN 3-926701-62-5 , p. 146 f.
• Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 284 .
• Hans-Ulrich Ludewig , Dietrich Kuessner : "So everyone should be warned" - The Braunschweig Special Court 1933–1945. In: Sources and research on the Braunschweig national history. Volume 36. Self-published by the Braunschweigisches Geschichtsverein, Langenhagen 2000, ISBN 3-928009-17-6 .

Web links

• Literature by Friedrich-Wilhelm Holland in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Friedrich-Wilhelm Holland I. In: Rainer Assmann , Ernst Napp, Ingo Nordmeyer: The Tübinger Rhenanen. (Corps list and corps history), 5th edition 2002, p. 180.
2. ↑ Dissertation: The freedom of judicial discretion in criminal law.
3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 133 , 945
4. ↑ Michael Schlüter, Dieter Miosge: Admission has been withdrawn. The fate of the lawyers in the Braunschweig district from 1933–1945. Braunschweig 2006, p. 18.
5. ↑ Klaus Erich Pollmann: The difficult way into the post-war period. The Evangelical Lutheran regional church in Braunschweig 1945–1950. 2006, p. 294.