Heinrich Anz (lawyer, 1879)

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Heinrich Anz (born September 10, 1879 in Quedlinburg , † May 13, 1933 in Kassel ) was a German lawyer . From 1925 to 1933 he was President of the Kassel Higher Regional Court .

Life

Heinrich Anz came from the Prussian province of Saxony and attended the universities of Halle and Leipzig to study law there. He completed his studies in 1903 with a doctorate as Dr. jur. from.

He then worked as a trainee lawyer in the Prussian city of Nordhausen in the administrative district of Erfurt . In 1906 he became a court assessor. From 1909 to 1919 Heinrich Anz was a district judge in Neuwied . He then moved to the Prussian Ministry of Justice and was appointed to the Privy Council of Justice. At the same time he was a lecturer council, which at that time corresponded to a ministerial council.

In 1925 Heinrich Anz was appointed President of the Kassel Higher Regional Court . After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists, Heinrich Anz fell out of favor and was haunted by an SA commando that drove him to suicide in May 1933 at the age of 53. His successor in office was Kurt Delitzsch .

He was a member of the Museum Association for Hessen-Cassel, which he left again for economic reasons.

literature

  • Arthur von Gruenewaldt: The judges of the Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt am Main in the time of National Socialism , p. 165.
  • Moritz von Köckritz: The German Higher Regional Court Presidents in National Socialism 1933–1945 , 2011, p. 86.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Dealing with the pasts of the former Lord Mayors of Kassel Seidel, Lauritzen and Branner. Documentation from the meeting of the city council on July 20, 2015 ( PDF , accessed on January 24, 2019).