Günther Willms
Günther Willms (born February 25, 1912 in Duisburg ; † October 3, 1998 in Spessart ) was a German lawyer in high judicial authorities and federal judges .
Life
The family came from Westphalia, his father was a teacher until he was released for political reasons. After attending the humanistic grammar school in Fulda, Willms studied law in Munich, Bonn, Marburg and Frankfurt from 1930 to 1933. After completing his legal traineeship, he was an assessor in Kassel, Fulda, Hanau and Aschaffenburg. He was struck from the provisional list of writers in 1934 and had to limit himself to occasional columnist works, which he often wrote with Fritz Maubach and mainly published in the Frankfurter Zeitung . During the Second World War Willms was a reserve officer with the final rank of captain. He had been in the judiciary since 1938 and, from 1951, a senior councilor at the Federal Constitutional Court. From 1953 to 1980 he was a judge at the Federal Court of Justice.
Willms was a member of the Catholic student union K.St.V. Frankonia-Strasbourg Frankfurt.
Web links
- Günther Willms in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Willms, Günther |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer in high judicial authorities and federal judge |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 25, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Duisburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 3, 1998 |
| Place of death | Ettlingen |