Hans Ponfick

Hans Ponfick (born August 24, 1883 in Breslau , † April 12, 1946 in Szklarska Poreba , Poland ) was an administrative lawyer specializing in agricultural law during the Weimar Republic .

Life

Hans Ponfick was the son of the pathologist Emil Ponfick, who teaches in Breslau . After attending school in Breslau, he studied law from 1901 at the Philipps University of Marburg , the Georg August University of Göttingen and the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University . In 1902 he became active in the Corps Hannovera Göttingen . After the first state examination, he did a long agricultural internship. After completing his legal traineeship in 1907, he was promoted to Dr. iur. PhD . He passed the second state examination in 1908 and took up his first position as a court assessor in Breslau. Until 1910 he worked for the Prussian Settlement Commission in Posen.

From 1911 to 1914 Ponfick was director of the Brandenburg provincial settlement company “Eigen Scholle” before he served in the First World War from 1914 to 1917 . In 1917 he returned to the judiciary as a magistrate in Freiburg in Silesia . As early as 1918 he became a councilor at the senior presidium in Potsdam and in 1919 a secret councilor and lecturer at the Reich Ministry of Labor . In the ministry, Ponfick was the head of the rural settlement subdivision. As such, he triggered initial considerations in the cabinet in 1921 as to how far the right to freedom of expression under the Weimar Constitution could also apply to civil servants, after he had accused the Prussian Agriculture Minister Otto Braun of inactivity through the press.

At the same time he worked as a lecturer at the Administration Academy in Berlin . After leaving the civil service in 1923, he worked as an advisor to agricultural associations and was admitted to the Berlin Court of Appeal from 1925 onwards . From 1922 to 1928 Ponfick was a member of the Provisional Reich Economic Council as a representative of the Reichslandbund , of which he was also a member. As a member of the state parliament, Ponfick represented the interests of the rural people , a peasant party of the Weimar Republic, in the Prussian state parliament . In addition to working in committees of other agricultural organizations, he developed an extensive professional writing activity on all legal issues of agriculture, in particular agricultural land law, at that time called settlement law against the background of caring for war returnees under the aspect of self-sufficiency. His commentary on the Reich Settlement Act of August 11, 1919, which appeared in several editions, became known. He was a member of the supervisory boards of several sugar factories in Silesia.

Since his son suffered from the effects of poliomyelitis and was unable to flee, Ponfick stayed in Oberschreiberhau in 1945 . He died in Soviet custody.

literature

• Wilhelm Joppich (Ed.): Blue Book of the Corps Hannovera, Vol. 2: 1900–2002 . Göttingen 2002, No. 868

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Ponfick in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 42 , 836
2. ↑ Dissertation: Questions of doubt in the area of ​​inheritance acceptance .
3. ^ Federal Archives: Files of the Reich Chancellery: Opinion
4. ^ Hans Ponfick in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic
5. ^ Franz Stadtmüller (ed.): History of the Corps Hannovera zu Göttingen 1809-1959 . Göttingen 1963, p. 296.