Heinrich Frings

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Heinrich Frings (* 10. February 1885 in Neuss , † 25. January 1946 in . Special Camp No. 1 mill mountain ) was a German judge and Reichsgerichtsrat in the era of National Socialism .

Life

Frings was the eldest of eight children of the weaving factory owner Heinrich Frings and his wife Maria, geb. Sels. His brother Josef (* 1887) became Archbishop of Cologne in 1942 ; his brother Alfons (* 1893) was Lord Mayor of Neuss from 1946 to 1961 . In 1906 Heinrich Frings passed the first state examination in law, and the second in 1910. In the same year he became an assessor . During the First World War he was deputy hospital inspector.

In July 1919 he became district judge at the district court of Kleve and the following year district judge . In 1922 he was promoted to regional court director. In 1924 he was also a local judge in Kleve . From June 1932 he worked as an assistant judge at the Reich Court in Leipzig . In November 1934 Frings was appointed to the Reich Judicial Council. He was the rapporteur in the proceedings of the Reichsgericht which transferred the company law founder's liability for intent and negligence to the GmbH .

Since May 1945 he was a member of the "Commission for the Preservation of Property of the Reichsgericht" set up by the American military government and initially confirmed by the Soviet military administration. On October 8, 1945, the Reichsgericht was closed on instructions from the Soviet secret police and the commission was dissolved. Frings had belonged to the Center Party until 1933 , after which he had not joined the NSDAP , nor had he been a member of the National Socialist Academy for German Law or one of its committees. At the end of August 1945 he was arrested by the NKVD and imprisoned in special camp No. 1 in Mühlberg ; there he died six months later.

Memberships

Honors

literature

  • Friedrich Karl Kaul , History of the Reichsgericht, Volume IV (1933–1945), East Berlin 1971, p. 269.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Achim Kilian : To be instructed for complete isolation: NKVD special camp Mühlberg / Elbe 1945–1948 , Leipzig 1993, p. 205; December after Theodor Klauser in: Norbert M. Borengässer: Correspondence Theodor Klauser - Jan Hendrik Waszink 1945-1951. A historical contribution to the continuation of the RAC after the Second World War, Yearbook for Antiquity and Christianity , Volume 40 (1997), p. 27
  2. ↑ RGZ Volume 159, pp. 321, 336; Jan Thiessen: "Transfer of GmbH law in the 20th century", in: Vanessa Duss et al. (Ed.): "Legal transfer in history", Munich 2006, pp. 470, 473. See also Vor-GmbH .
  3. ^ Friedrich-Christian Schroeder : Tamed Terror. The judiciary in the Soviet occupation zone / GDR up to the construction of the wall in 1961. Collective review in FAZ No. 61 of March 13, 2001, p. 10.
  4. ↑ Jan Thiessen: “Company Purchase and Civil Code”, Berlin 2005, p. 164.
personal data
SURNAME Frings, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Imperial Judge
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuss
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1946
Place of death Special camp No. 1 Mühlberg