Hans Danckwortt

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Hans Danckwortt (born March 26, 1875 in Sudenburg as Friedrich Johannes Danckwortt; † December 6, 1959 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German public prosecutor and judge.

Life

As the son of the pharmacy owner Hermann Danckwortt and Clara geb. Danckwortt Nitzsch attended Magdeburg High School . After graduating from high school, he enrolled as a student at Easter 1895 . iur. at the University of Jena and renoncierte the Corps Thuringia . As an inactive , he moved to the Friedrichs University in Halle in 1897 . From there, he often went up into higher semester after Wöllnitz to at scales to his brothers Corp seconding explode .

Since 1903 court assessor , in 1906 he became a public prosecutor in Beuthen , Upper Silesia . As such he came to Halle in 1911 and in 1919 - in the Weimar Republic - to Breslau . In 1921 he became a senior public prosecutor in Naumburg (Saale) . Appointed to the Reich Ministry of Justice as Ministerialrat in 1923 , he distinguished himself as an expert on the penal system . In 1930 he was therefore appointed as General Public Prosecutor and President of the Prison Office in Königsberg i. Pr. Posted. After the seizure of power on May 5, 1933, put into temporary retirement by the National Socialists , he retired to Dahlem .

The daughter died in the Second World War ; the son and corps brother Klaus Danckwortt died in Russia . Bombed out in Dahlem, Hans Danckwortt and his wife found shelter with the family of his brother, Ministerialrat Ernst Danckwortt, in Halle. There he, who had not belonged to any party, was again employed in the administration of justice , as director of the Halle city court . In 1951 he lost his wife Helene nee. Teichmann, whom he married in Beuthen on his 30th birthday. As a passionate mountaineer , she had undertaken great high-mountain tours with him and - after his retirement - extensive sea voyages. Of atherosclerosis and gout suffering, Danckwortt found domestic help in the daughter of his daughter. When she left the German Democratic Republic in the summer of 1959 , he stayed close to the fraternal family. He devoted himself to a group of lawyers that he had founded. He attended Thuringia's corps festivals in Hanover and Hamburg well into old age.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ancestry.com. Magdeburg, Germany, Birth Register 1874–1903 [database on-line], Magdeburg Old Town Registry Office, Register Number 774/1875
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 62/750
  3. ↑ a b c Bode: Obituary for Hans Danckwortt . Corps newspaper of Thuringia Jena, Hamburg 1960
  4. ↑ Acta Borussica (PDF; 2.2 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Danckwortt, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1959
Place of death Halle (Saale)