Fritz Seyffarth

Fritz Seyffarth (born December 12, 1872 in Wormditt ; † November 23, 1938 ) was President of the Senate at the Reich Court .

Life

The son of a Protestant district judge passed the first state legal examination in 1892 with "distinction". In 1892 he was sworn in to the Prussian sovereign. He passed the legal traineeship examination in 1896 "well". In the same year he became a court assessor. On New Year's Day in 1900 he became a district judge in Thorn. Nine years later he was appointed to the chamber judge. On April 1, 1919, he came to the Reichsgericht. He was active in the Second Criminal Senate until 1920 . He then worked in the 4th Civil Senate . April 1932 he was appointed Senate President of the VII Civil Senate . In 1933/34 he took over the chairmanship of the 4th Civil Senate. He retired on January 1, 1938. He died in November of the same year.

He was a collaborator in the Reichsgerichträtekommentar on the civil code.

literature

• Adolf Lobe: Fifty Years of the Reichsgericht on October 1, 1929 , Berlin 1929, p. 382.
• Friedrich Karl Kaul , History of the Reichsgericht, Volume IV (1933–1945), East Berlin 1971, p. 310f.