Georg Fröhlich (judge)

Georg Fröhlich (born March 20, 1884 in Katowice , † June 5, 1971 in Bühlertal ) was a German constitutional judge.

Life

Fröhlich studied at the universities of Freiburg and Breslau and was able to successfully complete this course in 1905 with a doctorate .

After the First World War , which he experienced as a soldier, Fröhlich was appointed a member of the Commission for Reich Compensation in Berlin in 1918/19 . In 1923 he then switched to the Reich Economic Court as a consultant, where he worked successfully a. a. together with Max von der Porten and Kurt Zweigert . At the same time, Fröhlich acted as a legal adviser and expert for various stock corporations .

At the beginning of 1939 Fröhlich went into exile and settled in Vaals . With the support of the Dutch resistance movement, he was able to hide and survive in Holland until the end of the war in 1945. He then returned to Germany and was soon appointed assistant judge.

In quick succession his career led him to the higher regional judge and senate president in Hamm . In 1949 Fröhlich was appointed President of the Hamm Higher Regional Court. On account of his election by the Federal Council (and a re-election on October 7, 1955) from September 7, 1951 to August 31, 1956, member of the Second Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court . When Fröhlich retired in 1956, the judge Hans Kutscher was appointed as his successor.

Honors

• 1956: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• The BVerfG , 2nd edition 1971, p. 220.