Hans Ranke

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Hans Ranke (born May 17, 1905 in Berlin , † after 1989) was a German lawyer and long-time deputy to the Minister of Justice of the GDR .

Life

Ranke studied law at the Universities of Greifswald and Berlin and was awarded a doctorate in law in 1936 with his thesis The entire foreign exchange law: manual commentary for business and practice . During the time of National Socialism he was a district judge at the Reich Office for Foreign Exchange Procurement under Helmuth Wohlthat . As such, he led the search of the apostolic nunciature in the Palais Seyssel d'Aix in Munich from October 1 to 3, 1936 . He was used by the Wehrmacht in World War II and was a Soviet prisoner of war .

From 1947 he was a judge at the district courts of Berlin-Köpenick and Berlin-Mitte . He became a member of the SED . After the split in Berlin, he was a district judge or district court director at the district court in East Berlin from 1949 to 1950 . In September 1949 he was appointed Vice President and on April 13, 1950 by the Berlin Magistrate as President of the Court of Appeal. He held this office until 1957.

In 1954 and 1958 he was elected as a member of the Berlin city council, in which he was a member of the permanent finance commission. From 1955 he was a member of the College of Justice of the GDR . In July 1957, by resolution of the SED Politburo, he was appointed as the second deputy of Justice Minister Hilde Benjamin alongside State Secretary Heinrich Toeplitz .

From 1965 to November 1989 he was State Secretary in the Ministry of Justice with responsibility for negotiations with the Federal Republic of Germany. In August 1973, negotiations began on the contractual regulation of mutual legal aid between the two German states. The negotiations were initiated on the part of the German Democratic Republic by the State Secretary in the Ministry of Justice, Dr. Hans Ranke, and on the part of the Federal Republic of Germany by the State Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Justice, Dr. Günther Erkel , led. The last hearing in which Hans Ranke took part took place in October 1988 in East Berlin with the State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Justice, Klaus Kinkel . On November 30, 1989 Ranke was released from the position of State Secretary by the Modrow government for health and age reasons and Ulrich Roehl was confirmed as his successor. Ranke last lived in Lehnitz .

Awards and honors

  • 1962 Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
  • 1965 Order Banner of Labor
  • 1985 Gold Medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit
  • On May 15, 1970, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Berlin Humboldt University.

literature

  • Federal Ministry for All-German Issues (Ed.): SBZ-Biographie , Bonn / Berlin 1964, p. 277.
  • Günther Buch: Names and dates of important people in the GDR. 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Dietz, Berlin (West) / Bonn 1982, ISBN 3-8012-0081-7 , p. 249.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Germany of May 17, 1985
  2. ↑ New Vice President of the Court of Appeal . In: Berliner Zeitung , September 6, 1949, p. 6.
  3. ↑ New President . In: Berliner Zeitung , April 14, 1950, p. 6.
  4. ^ New Germany of September 24, 1954
  5. ^ New Germany of October 30, 1958
  6. ^ The Berlin judiciary gave an account . In: Neue Zeit , September 12, 1963, p. 8.
  7. ^ Wilhelm Kosch, Eugen Kuri: Biographisches Staats Handbuch, 1963, p. 1208
  8. ^ Minutes of the meeting of the Politburo on July 2, 1957 - BArch DY 30 / J IV 2/2/547
  9. ^ New Germany of August 22, 1973
  10. ^ Neue Justiz , 1989 , Volume 44, p. 61
  11. ^ New Germany of October 5, 1988
  12. ^ Minutes of the 3rd meeting of the Council of Ministers on November 30, 1989 - BArch DC 20-I / 3/2875.
  13. ^ Greetings for the 80th birthday in Neues Deutschland from May 17, 1985
  14. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of May 16, 1970
personal data
SURNAME Ranke, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and long-time deputy to the Minister of Justice of the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH after 1989