Georg Strucksberg

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Georg Strucksberg (born June 6, 1884 in Milików (dt. Herzogswaldau), † February 13, 1965 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer and president of the Berlin Court of Appeal after the Second World War .

Life

Born in Lower Silesia , Strucksberg passed his second state examination in law in 1906 after studying law and political science in Lausanne , Berlin and Halle an der Saale . In 1907 he received his doctorate and in 1910 the assessor exam in Berlin. In 1912 he became a district judge in Stade . In 1919 he worked as a senior judicial officer in the Prussian Ministry of Justice, in 1921 he was appointed senior judge at the Prussian State Legal Examination Office. In 1924 he was appointed senior administrative judge at the Prussian Higher Administrative Court.

In 1932, together with two colleagues, he and two colleagues had warned specifically about Adolf Hitler , Roland Freisler and Wilhelm Kube in a circular addressed to judges, public prosecutors and lawyers . Because of that and because he u. a. belonged to the SPD , the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold and the Republican Judges ' Association, he was dismissed from civil service after Hitler came to power in 1934 because of political unreliability. During the time of National Socialism, he worked as a legal advisor and, if known, as the syndic of "Sternverschlüsse KG" and "Sternglas GmbH".

After the end of the war in 1945 he was a judge at the Charlottenburg District Court for a short time , then Vice-President of the Berlin Chamber Court . From February 1946 he was appointed by the Allies as President of the Supreme Court. In this office he arranged for the Court of Appeal to move from the Soviet sector to West Berlin in 1949 . The resulting split in the Court of Appeal began with an affair involving the Vice-President of the Berlin Regional Court, Jakob Blasse . This was suspended on November 8, 1948 following accusations of enrichment by Strucksberg. While the three western powers supported this position, the Soviet court officer ordered its reinstatement. On the grounds that such an instruction could only be issued jointly by all four powers, the President of the Regional Court Siegfried Loewenthal refused to accept this order on February 4, 1949. After the threat of arrest and with the tacit support of the Western Allies, Strucksberg transferred to the Court of Appeal moved to the Yorckhaus on Fehrbelliner Platz in West Berlin on February 5, 1949 . The vast majority of judges continued their work there. Ten of the eleven Senate presidents decided to work in the West. Since at the same time the Kammergericht remained in the Soviet sector as the Kammergericht (East) Berlin , the division of the Berlin judiciary between East and West was completed.

Strucksberg was President of the Berlin Court of Appeal until 1951 and then worked for some time at the Berlin Higher Administrative Court . He died on February 13, 1965.

literature

  • Ernst Reuß: Millionaires don't ride bicycles: Everyday justice in post-war Berlin , erma, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-1-54806-691-8 .
  • Friedrich Scholz: Berlin and its justice: the history of the higher court district 1945 to 1980. de Gruyter, 1982, ISBN 3-11-008679-4 .
  • Jürgen Kipp: President of the Chamber Court Dr. Georg Strucksberg. Forum law u. Kultur im Kammergericht eV, Lexxion Verlag, 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Scholz, 1982, p. 266.
  2. ↑ cf. Reuss, 2017, list of persons
  3. ↑ a b Scholz, 1982, page 278: table of terms of office
  4. ↑ Scholz, 1982, pp. 112-130.
  5. ↑ Klipp, 2008, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Strucksberg, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strucksberg, Georg Hermann Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and President of the Court of Justice
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Milików (dt. Herzogswaldau), Lower Silesia
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1965
Place of death Berlin