Hans Dieter von Gemmingen-Maienfels

Memorial plaque at Maienfels Castle

Hans Dieter Leonhard von Gemmingen-Maienfels (born August 17, 1902 in Neckarzimmern , † December 1944 in Soviet captivity ) was a full professor of law at the University of Halle .

Life

He came from the Neckarzimmern line of the barons of Gemmingen- Hornberg and was a son of the Neckarzimmern landlord Franz Pleickardt Reinhard von Gemmingen (1870-1927) and Margarethe von Kalckreuth (1876-1960). He received his earliest education from private tutors , later he attended the seminar preschool in Karlsruhe and then the reform high school there , where he passed his Abitur in 1920. In Munich he began studying music with the minor subjects pedagogy and philosophy, but then switched to law studies in autumn 1923. He continued his studies in Heidelberg from 1924 and in Göttingen from 1926 . The end of 1927 he received a doctorate for Dr. jur. and then practiced various legal professions before he turned to an academic career in 1929 and after a short time in Berlin in December 1931 in Greifswald was habilitated in the subjects of criminal law and legal philosophy . During that time he wrote several legal journals. In 1934 he had a representative office in Bonn and from 1936 to 1938 in Halle an der Saale before he was given a full professorship there .

He was a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 2.147.007) and joined the SA in 1933 and the NSKK in 1935 .

He was drafted for military service for the first time in August 1939, but after six months he was given a leave of absence because he was indispensable at the university. In 1943 he was drafted again and came to the headquarters in Bucharest , from where his last message was dated August 21, 1944. He remained missing after the end of the war, before a returnee from Russia reported in 1947 that he had seen the missing person in a transport train from Focsani to Jasniki in November 1944 and that he had died of exhaustion upon arrival in Jasniki in early December 1944.

From 1930 Hans Dieter von Gemmingen was married to Martha Maria Thoma (1902–1980). There were no descendants from the marriage. The couple have restored Maienfels Castle , which has been in the Gemmingen family property for a long time but has been uninhabited since the end of the 18th century , for residential purposes. In the castle today a plaque commemorates Hans Dieter von Gemmingen-Maienfels, and his widow's urn is also buried next to the plaque.

Fonts

• The illegality of the attempt , Breslau-Neukirch 1932
• Criminal law in the spirit of Adolf Hitler , Heidelberg 1933
• Problems of the application of criminal law , Tübingen 1934

literature

• Maria Heitland: Family chronicle of the barons of Gemmingen - continuation of the chronicles from 1895 and 1925/26 . Gemmingenscher Familienverband eV 1991, pp. 209/210.
• Walter von Hueck: Lineage of the Barons von Gemmingen, special print from the Genealogical Handbook of the Adels Volume 37 (Freiherrliche Häuser A, Volume VI) , CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1966, p. 172 and portrait photo on an unpaginated plate.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Dieter von Gemmingen-Maienfels in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ GND 126392366