Friedrich Schneider (lawyer)

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Friedrich Karl Adolf Schneider (born February 23, 1882 in Kassel , † May 28, 1945 in Krummhübel in the Giant Mountains ) was a German lawyer and police officer.

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Schneider was the son of the long-time mayor of Magdeburg , Gustav Schneider . After attending school, Schneider studied law at the universities of Marburg , Halle and Berlin. After passing the first state examination on April 8, 1904, he was appointed trainee lawyer and after passing the great state examination on December 22, 1909, he was appointed court assessor.

Since September 16, 1912, Schneider acted as a district judge (district court councilor) at the district court of Charlottenburg .

From August 1914 to November 1918 he took part as a reserve officer in World War I , in which he was awarded the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd Class and the Mecklenburg-Schwerin Military Cross 2nd Class. Later he also received the Cross of Honor for Frontline Fighters. At the end of the war, he left the army as captain of the reserve.

After his return from the war, Schneider returned to the judicial service: in 1919 he was appointed district judge at District Court II in Berlin . In 1922 he was promoted to regional court director. In this capacity he was first chairman of a civil chamber and then a criminal chamber. Most recently he acted as deputy president of Regional Court II until 1933. In public he became known, among other things, as chairman of numerous jury trials , for example in the trial against the postman murderer Heins. During the Weimar Republic, Schneider was politically close to the DNVP, of which he was a member from 1920 to 1928.

After the National Socialists came to power in the spring of 1933, Schneider became a member of the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 ( membership number 2,593,575).

With effect from September 10, 1933 Schneider was appointed by decree of the Prussian Interior Minister Hermann Göring as government director to head of the Berlin criminal police with the rank of government director in the Prussian administration. In this capacity, he headed Department K (Criminal Police) in the Berlin police headquarters until April 30, 1935 .

On May 1, 1935, Schneider took over the post of senior public prosecutor in Duisburg. In 1938 he moved to Breslau as Senate President before coming back to Berlin in 1944.

Fonts

  • "To the fight against professional criminality ", in: Deutsche Justiz from June 8, 1934, pp. 739–742.

literature

  • "The new head of the Berlin criminal police, government director Friedrich Schneider", in: Berliner Illustrierte Nachtausgabe , September 12, 1933.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register of the registry office I in Berlin No. 4755/1954.
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schneider, Friedrich Karl Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and police officer
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1945
Place of death Krummhübel in the Giant Mountains