Günther Wilde

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Günther Wilde (born March 24, 1900 in Berlin ; † August 12, 1980 ) was a German lawyer and judge at the Federal Court of Justice from 1950 to 1964 .

Life

From the German Empire to the Third Reich

Wilde was the son of Postrat Paul Wilde and his wife Margarete, born Friday. He attended grammar school in Frankfurt (Oder) and then studied law at the universities in Berlin and Göttingen . In 1923 and 1927 he passed his two state exams with grade marks. In 1930 he married Lotte Loewe.

From 1931 to 1937 he was employed as a judge at the district and regional court in Berlin without being assigned to a post. During this time in 1934 he joined the Association of National Socialist German Jurists , the National Socialist People's Welfare and the Reich Air Protection Association . However , he did not become a member of the NSDAP . Because of the non-Aryan origin of his wife, he was retired in 1937 with effect from January 1, 1938. The decision was based on Section 6 of the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service , which allowed early retirement “to simplify administration”. Wilde's attempt to avert this in 1936 with a letter in which he outlined his National Socialist attitude and the “non-Jewish attitude” of his wife failed. An application in 1937 in which he asked to be released from the judiciary and to be admitted to the Berlin regional court was unsuccessful. The regional court did not have any objections, but both the Reich Ministry of Justice and the National Socialist Lawyers' Association refused. As a result, he earned his living freelance as a research assistant for various lawyers until the end of the war.

Working in the Federal Republic of Germany

After the surrender he worked as a lawyer and notary in Berlin until 1949. In February 1949 he was appointed to the Higher Government Council in the Central Justice Office of the British Zone in Hamburg . On July 1, 1949, he was appointed Justice of the Supreme Court of the British Zone . Its chairman, Ernst Wolff , proposed him to Federal Justice Minister Thomas Dehler as a judge at the Federal Court of Justice . After being elected by the judges' election committee , Wilde took office as a federal judge in October 1950.

At the Federal Court of Justice he was a member of the First Civil Senate , headed by BGH President Hermann Weinkauff . When Weinkauff and the Federal Minister of Justice offered him the chairmanship of another Senate in 1956, he turned down this offer because he absolutely wanted to remain in the First Civil Senate. Only when the opportunity arose in 1959 to take over the chairmanship of the First Civil Senate did he take advantage of this opportunity. On December 31, 1964, he retired.

Since 1957 he has given lectures on industrial property , copyright and business law at the University of Heidelberg . The university awarded him an honorary doctorate . He was a member of the German Association for Commercial Legal Protection and Copyright , the Franco-German Lawyers Association, the Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale and an expert commission for commercial legal protection set up by the Federal Ministry of Justice.

literature

  • Hans Bock (Ed.): Festschrift for Günther Wilde on his 70th birthday . Verlag Franz Vahlen, Munich 1970, ISBN 3-8006-0029-3 . P. VIIf.
  • Klaus-Detlev Godau-Schüttke: Günther Wilde: A “non-Aryan” wife and the consequences in the judicial system. In: Ders .: The Federal Court of Justice: Justice in Germany. Tischler, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-922654-66-5 . Pp. 397-399.
  • Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is Who. The German who's who. 16th edition of Degeners Who's it? , 1969/70, volume 1. Arani, Berlin 1970. p. 1442.
  • Helmut Irmen, Christian Pöpken: The judges and prosecutors at the Supreme Court for the British Zone - short biographies. In: Ministry of Justice of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (ed.): Crimes against humanity - The Supreme Court of the British Zone (= Legal History of North Rhine-Westphalia. Volume 19). 2012. pp. 185f.
  • Walter Oppenhoff : Dr. jur. hc Günter Wilde. Honorary professor at the University of Heidelberg, Senate President at the Federal Court of Justice (retired) In: Commercial legal protection and copyright 1980, p. 978.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Who is Who, Volume 16, p. 1442. In contrast, Godau-Schüttke, p. 398 says that Wilde came from a pastor's household.
  2. ↑ Irmen and Pöpken, p. 185, with reference to his personal file in the Federal Archives.
  3. ↑ Who is Who, Volume 16, p. 1442, and Irmen and Pöpken, p. 186, with reference to his personal file in the Federal Archives. According to Oppenhoff, GUR, p. 978, the appointment was made in 1948.
personal data
SURNAME Wilde, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and judge at the Federal Court of Justice
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , Germany
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1980