Fritz Ostler

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Fritz Ostler (born May 14, 1907 in Freilassing ; † March 8, 1999 in Munich ) was a German lawyer.

Life

Fritz Ostler studied law at the University of Munich and completed his legal preparatory service in Munich from 1930 to 1933. In 1931 he received his doctorate with the dissertation “Das Klageerzwingungsverfahren” and became a research assistant to the criminal lawyer Ernst von Beling , who however died in 1932.

On September 7, 1933, Ostler was admitted to the bar at the Munich I and Munich II regional courts and at the Munich Higher Regional Court and worked mainly in civil matters. Since 1937 he was married to Maria-Margarete Loecherer. In 1937, Ostler represented J. Schweitzer Verlag against the lawyer Felix Herzfelder , who had written the section on inheritance law in the Staudinger for the publisher , but was no longer to be published as a Jew. Herzfelder was represented by the chairman of the Bavarian Bar Association and member of the board of the German Bar Association Max Friedlaender , who was deposed in 1933 after the transfer of power to the National Socialists . During the trial, Ostler polemically equated Herzfelder with Shylock , whereupon he was asked by Chairman Hans Ehard whether Ostler demanded that Herzfelder lose the trial because he was Jewish . Ehard passed a courageous verdict despite the anti-Semitic agitation in and outside the courtroom. Ostler was listed as a co-author of the Staudinger Commentary since 1935 and was later referred to by Friedlaender as a “legal writer” who “distinguished himself in the Nazi spirit”. Ostler was a member of the National Socialist Legal Guardian Association (NSRB) . According to Friedlaender, Ostler was a member of the NSDAP , sixty years later Tillmann Krach was unable to verify party membership.

After 1945, Ostler allowed himself to be described as “in contradiction to National Socialism”. Nothing is known about his own denazification . Ostler initially worked as a lawyer at his place of residence in the Wolfratshausen district and was also involved in judicial proceedings , in which those charged could also consult a lawyer in accordance with the Liberation Act .

On July 29, 1948, he was admitted to the bar at the Bavarian Supreme Court . From December 1949 he was chairman of the re-established Munich Bar Association, was President of the Bavarian Bar Association from October 1951 to 1979 and represented it from 1959 as Vice President of the German Bar Association . With its later president Erhard Senninger and Robert Geigel he founded the association Selbsthilfe der Rechtsanwälte e. V.

Ostler published in legal journals and in the Staudinger Commentary on the Civil Code , had been co-editor of the NJW since 1972 and published a collection of Bavarian judicial laws. From 1959 to 1964 he was a lecturer at the University of Munich and was involved as an examiner in the selection and assessment of young lawyers. Ostler wrote a history of the legal profession in Germany.

Ostler became honorary president of the Bavarian Bar Association and received the Hans Dahs plaque from the German Bar Association. In 1961 he was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit. On his 90th birthday he received the Federal Cross of Merit . Ostler was buried in Icking .

Fonts

  • The Law for Liberation from National Socialism and Militarism of March 5, 1946 and its implementation: personal experiences and memories . NJW 1996, pp. 821-825
  • The German Lawyers 1871–1971 . Essen: Juristischer Verlag Ellinghaus 1971
  • The German lawyer . Karlsruhe: CF Müller, 1963
  • Payment Act / Crisolli-Ostler . Berlin: de Gruyter, 1958, 5th edition.
  • Bavarian judicial laws . Erg.-Bd. 1957, after d. As of January 1, 1957. Munich: Beck 1957
  • The enforcement procedure (§§ 172 ff. StPO.) . Schletter, Breslau, 1931

literature

  • Karl Ritter von Klimesch (ed.): Heads of politics, economy, art and science . Augsburg: Naumann, 1953. Volume 1, p. 817
  • Bavarian Bar Association: About the legal profession, court and law: Festschrift on the 50th anniversary of Fritz Ostler's professional life . Stuttgart: R. Boorberg, 1983
  • Felix Busse : Fritz Ostler on his 90th birthday , NJW 1997, p. 1354
  • Hermann Weber : Fritz Ostler died , NJW 1999, p. 1839

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Max Friedlaender: The memoirs of the lawyer Max Friedlaender , at the Federal Bar Association , p. 175.
  2. a b c Tillmann Krach: Herzfelder ./. Schweitzer Verlag, OLG Munich 5 U 791/37 , at forum historiae juris, March 31, 2005 ISSN  1860-5605
  3. ^ Staudinger, 10th edition 1935 , at WorldCat
  4. Fritz Ostler (PDF; 182 kB), at: Munich Bar Association
  5. ^ Fritz Ostler: The Law for Liberation from National Socialism , NJW 1996 pp. 821–825
  6. Self-help of the lawyers ( Memento of the original from November 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , website  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.selbsthilfe-ra.de
  7. Award of the Hans Dahs plaque , NJW 1981, p. 1827