Gustav Spangenberg (lawyer)

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Gustav Spangenberg (born March 10, 1884 in Dömitz ; † December 10, 1972 in Schwerin ) was a German lawyer and President of the Church Council.

Life

Gustav Spangenberg, son of the pharmacist of the same name Gustav Spangenberg (* 1853), attended the Friedrich-Franz-Gymnasium in Parchim until he graduated from high school in 1902. He studied law at the Universities of Rostock, Freiburg im Breisgau, Münster and from May 1904 again at the University of Rostock .

After his exams he joined the judicial service of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and was appointed trainee lawyer on April 30, 1906 . In 1910 he passed the second legal exam and became a court assessor . From 1914 to 1922 he worked as a public prosecutor . In 1922 he came to the Schwerin District Court as a local judge , where he worked until 1945.

After the National Socialist German Christians came to power in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg , he advised the Mecklenburg Brothers Council , the governing body of the Confessing Church . Together with the retired Court of Appeal President Hans Eberhard he wrote a legal opinion, according to which the regional church leader Act of 13 September 1933 and all its attendant church laws and regulations were invalid, and that the basis for the legal rights of the Church's opposition in the church struggle formed in Mecklenburg.

After the end of the Second World War , in June 1945 he was entrusted with the provisional management of the affairs of the Upper Church Council by the State Brotherhood Council and in 1946 he was appointed President of the Church Council as the successor to Hermann Schmidt zur Nedden . In addition, he was chairman of the Inner Mission regional association in Mecklenburg and deputy chairman of the EKD disciplinary court (eastern senate). In 1959 he retired.

literature

  • Spangenberg, Gustav , in: Hannelore Braun, Gertraud Grünzinger: Personal Lexicon on German Protestantism 1919-1949. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2006, ISBN 978-3-525-55761-7 , p. 241
  • Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 9539 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in 1902 in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ Entry in 1904 in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ^ Government Gazette for Mecklenburg-Schwerin: Official supplement 1906, p. 127
  4. ^ Entry by Hans Eberhard in the Rostock matriculation portal
  5. ^ Niklot Beste : The church struggle in Mecklenburg from 1933 to 1945. History, documents, memories (= work on the history of the church struggle, supplementary series; 9 ) Licensed edition . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1975. ISBN 3-525-55533-4 . P. 98
personal data
SURNAME Spangenberg, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and President of the Church Council
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Doemitz
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1972
Place of death Schwerin