Hans Segelken

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Hans Segelken (born May 31, 1897 in Bremerhaven , † December 21, 1982 in Hamburg ) was a German ministerial official and Reich judge.

Life

Hans Segelken was the son of a shipbuilding engineer . When the First World War broke out in 1914, he volunteered for the Hussar Regiment "Emperor Franz Josef of Austria, King of Hungary" (Schleswig-Holstein) No. 16 . At Christmas 1914 he came to the Eastern Front . He resigned from the cavalry as a hussar corporal at Easter 1916. He came to the Western Front as a lieutenant in the infantry and became a regimental adjutant. Due to a thigh bullet in October 1918, he experienced the revolution in the hospital. After he was released in January 1919, he began studying mathematics and natural sciences at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . A Notabitur he had already stored 1916th In the winter semester he switched to law . He heard Max Weber , Karl von Amira , Karl Rothenbücher , Reinhard Frank , Ernst von Beling , Wilhelm Kisch and Konrad Cosack . In 1919/20 he was a member of the Epp Freikorps , from which he said he left shortly before the Kapp Putsch . After the 1st state examination in June 1921, he became a trainee lawyer in Bremen. In 1923 he was at the University of Hamburg for Dr. iur. PhD. In 1925 he passed his assessor examination at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court . First he was in his "hometown" Wesermünde (Segelken) syndic of the Bremerhaven Chamber of Commerce and Industry . From 1925 he was chairman of the Reichsoberseeamt . In 1926 he was elected by the judges' selection committee and in 1927 he became a judge at the Bremerhaven District Court and in 1930 a judge at the Bremen Regional and District Court. In 1933 he was an adjunct member of the criminal chamber in the process of the North German wool combing and worsted spinning mill .

After the election victory of the National Socialist German Workers' Party in the Reichstag election in March 1933 , he joined the party and the Sturmabteilung in May 1933 when he had fallen in March . He himself described his relationship with the NSDAP as tense: he had resisted the Secret State Police as regular examining magistrate, his trip to the Soviet Union (1930) was used against him and he had the pacifist and Major General Paul von Schoenaich at a lecture by the German Peace Society defended against rioters. For Klaus-Detlev Godau-Schüttke he was “a staunch National Socialist”. The assessment is based on the fact that Segelken was a long-time friend and colleague of Curt Rothenberger and helped him as he rose. In 1935, Rothenberger became aware of Segelken and brought him to the Higher Regional Court in Hamburg as an assistant judge, and in December 1936 Segelken was appointed higher regional judge. After the beginning of the Second World War he served as a captain in the army (Wehrmacht) from 1939 to 1941 . In 1940 he was briefly a prize judge . In the Leningrad blockade , he was shot through in the thigh. In 1941 he was appointed president of the district court. When Rothenberger went to the Reich Ministry of Justice in Berlin , Segelken followed him in September 1942. He was appointed Ministerial Director and first headed Division II (Training). Associated with this was the chairmanship of the Reich Judicial Examination Commission. He was the successor to Otto Palandt . He was later suspended, he said, because the party chancellery believed he was "politically unreliable". He was on leave until he took over the management of Department VII (Commerce). After Rothenberger's fall at the end of 1943, Segelken was the only one from the "Hamburg squad" who stood by Rothenberger and left the Ministry of Justice for "personal reasons". On June 1, 1944, he was appointed Reich judge . He was active in the 1st civil senate of the Reichsgericht because he had been a long-time member of the Reichsoberseeamt and the 1st civil senate was also responsible for maritime matters. Segelken was recalled from the Reichsgericht at the beginning of April 1945 and “made available to take over the business as chairman of the Reichsoberseamt ​​and Reichsdisciplinary Court in Hamburg and thus Reich Commissioner for Maritime Shipping [...].

In 1945, his first marriage, which had been in 1926, was divorced. At the end of 1946 he became legal advisor to the central insurance supervisory authority, which was in the process of being rebuilt. In the denazification in 1948 he was classified as "exonerated". In 1948 he founded a law firm that is still renowned today in Hamburg, which has operated under the name Segelken & Suchopar since the merger with Friedrich-Karl Suchopar in 1950 . In 1950 he married for the second time. He had five children.

Fonts

  • Does Justice Exist? Hamburg 1979.
  • Kapitänsrecht , Hamburg 1967 or 2nd edition, Hamburg 1974.
  • Amor fati , autobiography, Hamburg 1970.

Reviews of the autobiography

His autobiography "Amor fati" is rated differently:

  • “The presentation of Segelken, which is a mixture of travel reports, self-critical retrospectives and philosophical considerations, must be viewed with caution.” Susanne Schott .
  • "Criminal judges have hardly ever published their memoirs - Hans Segelken gave a good picture of the time" (1970), concise dictionary of criminology.
  • “You get to know a lively mind and worldly experienced man; reading it makes some factual and linguistic annoyance ... The book is of moderate value for the history of the justice system of the Third Reich. ” Richard Schmid .
  • "A rich work", Herbert Schneider, BGH lawyer
  • “Writes openly”, Franciszek Ryszka .
  • "Embarrassing concealment of opportunism", Theo Rasehorn .
  • "As an exception [in coming to terms with the past] outstanding ...", Rainer Schröder .

literature

  • Klaus-Detlev Godau-Schüttke: The Federal Court of Justice - Justice in Germany . Berlin 2005, p. 72f.
  • Hamburg State Archive: Personal file no.1605 (Hans Segelken)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in the Hamburger Abendblatt dated December 28, 1982, p. 6 .
  2. ↑ Dissertation: The legal status of the pilot .
  3. ↑ Sarah Schädler: “Justizkrise” and “Judizreform” under National Socialism: The Reich Ministry of Justice under Thierack (1942–1945), Tübingen 2009, p. 132 .
  4. ^ W. Rohrbeck (Ed.): 50 Years of Material Insurance Supervision , Vol. 2, Berlin 1952, p. 336 .
  5. ^ Susanne Schott: Curt Rothenberger - a political biography. Diss. Halle (Saale) 2001, p. 98 ( PDF )
  6. ↑ Wolf Middendorf: Historische Kriminologie, in: Alexander Elster / Heinrich Lingemann / Rudolf Sieverts (eds.): Handwortbuch der Kriminologie, Berlin and New York 1979, p. 149.
  7. ↑ Richard Schmid: One who took part - On the memories of a Nazi judge , Die Zeit from November 20, 1970.
  8. ↑ Herbert Schneider JZ, 1973 p. 227f.
  9. ↑ Franciszek Ryszka: Państwo stanu wyjątkowego: rzecz o systemie państwa i prawa Trzeciej Rzeszy, 2nd edition 1974, p 376th
  10. ^ Theo Rasehorn: The decline of German left-wing bourgeois culture: described based on the résumés of Jewish lawyers, Baden-Baden 1988, p. 11.
  11. ^ Rainer Schröder: How a court overcomes its past, Ius Commune, Vol. XVI (1989), p. 338 ( PDF ).
personal data
SURNAME Segelken, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Segelken, Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ministerial official and Reich judge
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremerhaven
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1982
Place of death Hamburg