Guido reader

Guido readers (born October 16, 1883 in Heidelberg , † October 26, 1942 in Berlin ) was a German judge and liberal politician of Jewish origin.

Life

Readers was the son of the professor of economics Emanuel Readers (1849–1914). He studied law and did his doctorate at the University of Leipzig .

Reader was friends with the legal philosopher and later SPD Reich Justice Minister Gustav Radbruch , whom he persuaded to be elected as a “democratic member” of the Heidelberg municipal body. At that time, it was not possible to publicly acknowledge the SPD, which Radbruch sympathized with, without endangering his academic career.

Readers himself entered the judicial service and was appointed to the district court judge in Mannheim in 1919 and later in Heidelberg .

Readers joined the German Democratic Party (DDP) , which was founded in November 1918, and was elected in January 1919 as a member of the Baden Constitutional National Assembly, which served as the Baden state parliament until 1921 .

After the National Socialists " seizure of power " , including his older brother Walter, who was a judge at the Mannheim district court , and other Jewish judges and officials, were dismissed from office. He then moved to Berlin . While he was still enabling his son Konrad to emigrate, he could not make up his mind to emigrate. When the deportation to Theresienstadt concentration camp was ordered in October 1942 , Reader and his wife committed suicide.

literature

Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .

Web links

Speeches by Guido readers in the Baden state parliament in the digital collections of the Badische Landesbibliothek

Individual evidence

^ Guido Readers: Investigations into the right of the German Reichstag to examine the election. Leipzig 1908
^ Günter Spendel : Gustav Radbruch's political path. P. 2 (PDF, 82 kB)
↑ List of members of the Landtag (Republic of Baden) (1st electoral period)
^ Hugo Marx: The fate of the Jewish judges who were officiating in Mannheim in 1933. In: Mannheimer Hefte. 1961, p. 25, digitized version (PDF; 2.74 MB)

personal data
SURNAME	Reader, Guido
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German judges and politicians (DDP)
DATE OF BIRTH	October 16, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH	Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH	October 26, 1942
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Guido Readers: Investigations into the right of the German Reichstag to examine the election. Leipzig 1908

[2] Günter Spendel : Gustav Radbruch's political path. P. 2 (PDF, 82 kB)

[3] List of members of the Landtag (Republic of Baden) (1st electoral period)

[4] Hugo Marx: The fate of the Jewish judges who were officiating in Mannheim in 1933. In: Mannheimer Hefte. 1961, p. 25, digitized version (PDF; 2.74 MB)