Gerhard Rusch

Gerhard Rusch (born December 10, 1884 in Hanover , † March 19, 1936 ) was a German judge .

Life

Rusch passed the first state examination in 1906 (“sufficient”), the second in 1912 (“good”) and became an assessor in the same year. In December 1912 he was assistant judge at the Rheinhausen District Court and from September 1919 at the Hanover Regional Court . In November he was appointed district judge in Essen . In 1920 he was promoted to the district judge. In 1921 he was transferred back to Hanover. At the beginning of April 1923 he was seconded to the Higher Regional Court of Celle as an assistant judge . A year later, he also served as a local judge. In December 1924 he became the district court director at the district court Hildesheim and six months later at the same time the district judge at the district court Hildesheim . Since 1927 he was also employed as a district judge in the district court of Peine . On June 8, 1932, he came to the Reichsgericht as an assistant judge . His appointment to the Reich Judicial Council took place on December 1, 1934. He was first a member of the IV Criminal Senate . In the Reichstag fire process , he was a supplementary judge and rapporteur for the Senate. According to Justus W. Hedemann , Rusch was of the opinion that Lubbe was "an absolute simulant". In 1936 he was in the III. Civil Senate .

literature

• Friedrich Karl Kaul : History of the Reichsgericht. Volume IV (1933-1945), Berlin (East) 1971, p. 288.

Web links

• Image in the Reichstag fire trial from the Leipzig City History Museum (Z0057094) on Europeana

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Mommsen : "The Reichstag Fire and Its Political Consequences" VfZ , Volume 12 (1964), Issue 4, p. 368 ( PDF ).