Fritz Litten
Friedrich (Fritz) Julius Litten (born February 22, 1873 in Elbing , † February 1940 near Belfast , Northern Ireland ) was a German lawyer and professor in Königsberg .
Life
Born as the son of Joseph Litten (1841–1914), head of the Jewish community in Königsberg (1899–1906), and his wife Marie (* 1854), sister of Ludwig Lichtheim , Fritz Litten became a Protestant . He attended high schools in Elbing, Königsberg and Hohenstein . After graduating from high school in 1891, he studied law at the universities of Leipzig , Freiburg and Königsberg . In 1894 he passed the trainee exam . In 1895 he was at the Friedrichs University Halle to Dr. iur. PhD .
He then served as a one-year volunteer in the Prussian Army . He completed the first part of his legal clerkship in Halle. At the same time, he specialized in legal philosophy and civil law . For the second part of his legal clerkship, Litten moved to the Königsberg Higher Regional Court , where he passed the state examination in 1900.
In 1903 he completed his habilitation in Halle for Roman law and German civil law . Reported in agricultural law , Litten was 1906 associate professor and in 1908 full professor of Roman law and property law at the Albertus University. As a reserve officer , he took part in the First World War. In Ypres wounded and with the Iron Cross 1st class. Excellent, he was a captain dismissed.
The lectures of the national-conservative university professor were very popular. The top of the Königsberg society frequented his house. In 1925/26 he was rector of the Albertus University .
After being relieved of office by the National Socialists in 1933 , Litten moved to Berlin. The ISK community in exile helped the Littens to flee to London . With the support of the Comitee for non-aryan Christians of the Church of England , he was able to be accommodated as a guest at the Thompson Memorial Home near Belfast in Northern Ireland . There he died of a second flu .
The marriage with Irmgard Litten geb. Wüst had three sons, including Hans Litten , who died in 1938 in the Dachau concentration camp .
literature
- Knut Bergbauer, Sabine Fröhlich, Stefanie Schüler-Springorum : Monument figure. Biographical approach to Hans Litten 1903-1938. Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-8353-0268-6 , p. 314 ( online ).
- Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 240.
Web links
- Literature by and about Fritz Litten in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Fritz Litten in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dissertation: The dissent about the person of the recipient in the acquisition of tradition by a representative
- ↑ Inaugural lecture: The liability of the animal owner in civil law
- ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon. City and surroundings . Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Litten, Fritz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Litten, Fritz Julius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Elblag |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 1940 |
| Place of death | near Belfast , Northern Ireland |