Hans Zint

Hans Zint (born September 15, 1882 in Stuhm (West Prussia), † March 1, 1945 in Hermsdorf / Kynast ) was a German judge and politician ( SPD and Social Democratic Party of the Free City of Danzig ).

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Hans Zint was the son of the district school inspector and school councilor Bruno Zint and his wife Elise nee Schneider. He attended grammar school in Marienburg and, after graduating from high school, studied law in Leipzig , Berlin , Munich and Greifswald . He completed his legal clerkship in Christburg , Elbing and Marienwerder . He was promoted to Dr. Doctorate in law. In 1910 he passed the assessor examination with distinction and in the same year became a district judge in Danzig. From 1914 to 1916 he did military service as a lieutenant in the First World War . In 1921 he became senior judge in Gdansk and in 1922 district court director there. In 1930 he moved to Stettin as district court director and in 1932 to Breslau . After the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933 he retired at his own request; he had refused to have the swastika flag hoisted on the district court building. He was forcibly taken onto the street and verbally abused.

Hans Zint was a member of the SPD and was elected to the Constituent Assembly in 1920 as the leading candidate of the Social Democratic Party of the Free City of Danzig in the election for the Constituent Assembly in Danzig in 1920 , which later became the first People's Day . He was a participant in a conference of the victorious powers in Paris in September 1920 on the Treaty of Danzig with Poland. From January 1928 to April 1930 he was a part-time senator in Danzig .

A Reichstag candidacy in 1919 in constituency 2 (West Prussia province) was unsuccessful.

In 1916 he became a member and in 1924 chairman of the Schopenhauer Society founded by Paul Deussen in 1911 . From 1926 he was editor of the Schopenhauer yearbook in which he also published.

literature

• Herta Grunau: Hans Zint . In: Christian Krollmann u. a. (Ed.): Old Prussian Biography, Volume 2 . Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State Research , Marburg, ISBN 3-7708-0804-5 , p. 846.

Web links

• Hans Zint's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)