Gerhard Heiland (judge)

Gerhard Heiland (born February 8, 1894 in Leipzig , † August 22, 1961 in Karlsruhe ) was a German lawyer and judge of the Federal Constitutional Court .

Life

Heiland began studying law in Leipzig and Berlin in 1913 and was interrupted by the First World War. He served as an officer and was wounded in 1917. For his services in the war he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Military Order of St. Henry .

In 1918 he passed the first state law examination and received his doctorate in law the following year. His dissertation was entitled “On the question of the ideal competition between blackmail and fraud ”. In 1921 he passed the second state law examination and entered the Saxon civil service as a court assessor. In the same year he was appointed to a commission to investigate the background to the murder of Finance Minister Matthias Erzberger . In April 1922 he was appointed public prosecutor at the Leipzig Regional Court . In June 1923 he was promoted to senior government councilor in the Saxon Ministry of the Interior and at the same time took over the management of the Leipzig criminal investigation office and deputy to the police chief.

On April 22, 1933, he was dismissed from service under the Civil Service Restoration Act . He was also refused admission as a lawyer. From 1920, Heiland had been active as a supporter of Friedrich Naumann in a number of non-partisan organizations. He was a co-founder of the Republican Association of Judges , the German Republican Reich Association and the Leipzig branch of the Reich Banner Black-Red-Gold . These associations were banned by the National Socialists in 1933 or dissolved to forestall a ban. Heiland then went to Freiburg and worked in the insurance industry for twelve years.

After the war, from June 1946, he headed the State Office for Controlled Assets and Reparation, which is located in the Baden Ministry of Finance, as Ministerialrat and was involved in the preparation of the Baden compensation laws. He was also a member of the Baden Agriculture Council. In 1951 he was appointed judge at the Federal Court of Justice. He did not exercise this office, however, as he was also appointed judge of the Federal Constitutional Court.

Heiland died in 1961 at the age of 67 when he suffered a heart attack on the autobahn near Frankfurt am Main . He was married to Paula Luise, née Winter, and had two children.

Publications

• On the question of the ideal competition between blackmail and fraud. University thesis, manuscript, University of Leipzig 1919.

literature

• Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German Who's Who. 12th edition of Degeners Who is it? , Volume 2. Arani, Berlin 1955.
• Artur Herr: On the death of Vice President Dr. Katz and Federal Constitutional Judge Heiland. In: Public Administration 1961, pp. 784–785.
• Gerhard Heiland †. In: Deutsche Richterzeitung 1961, p. 332.
• International Biographical Archive 41/1961 of October 2, 1961
• The Federal Constitutional Court: 1951 - 1971. 2nd edition. Müller, Karlsruhe 1971, p. 225.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ While the BVerfG states that Heiland worked in the Allianz Group's sales force under the conditions of someone persecuted as an “enemy of the state” who was refused admission to the bar for political reasons, the International Biographical Archive 41/1961 claims that he was with was employed by Concordia- und Frankfurter Lebensversicherung AG.