Hans Free Life

Karl Johannes (Hans) Free Life (born March 4, 1871 in Leipzig ; † 1945 ) was a Senate President at the Imperial Court .

Life

His father Georg Freiesleben (1839-1919) was already President of the Senate at the Imperial Court of Justice in the German Empire. The Saxon Free Life became a trainee lawyer in 1894 and a judge in 1898. During his studies he became a member of the Association of German Students in Leipzig . He got a doctorate. In 1902 he became a district judge in Leipzig. In 1909 he was promoted to the regional court advisor and in 1914 to the regional court director. On October 1, 1918, he worked as an unskilled worker for the Reich Attorney General. On March 10, 1919, he was appointed Reich Attorney . In 1928 he was appointed to the Reichsgericht . He initially worked in the VII Civil Senate of the Imperial Court . In 1934 he was appointed President of the First Criminal Senate . In 1937 he retired.

He worked in the commentary to Penal Code of Justus von Olshausen in the 11th (1927) and 12th edition (1942).

The German geophysicist, astronomer and navigator Hans-Christian Freiesleben (1903–1985) was his son.

literature

• Adolf Lobe : "Fifty Years of the Reich Court on October 1, 1929", Berlin 1929, p. 403.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 59.