Heinrich Gerland

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Heinrich Gerland

Heinrich Ernst Karl Balthasar Gerland (born April 3, 1874 in Halle an der Saale , † December 28, 1944 in Jena ) was a German politician (DDP).

Live and act

Empire (1874–1919)

Heinrich Gerland was born in 1874 as the son of the geographer Georg Gerland and his wife Wilhelmine (1838–1885), née Henke. His maternal grandfather was the theologian Ernst Henke (1804–1872), and his paternal grandfather was a major general in Hesse (1795–1861). One of his father's brothers was the physics historian Anton Gerland, a cousin of the historian Ernst Gerland.

After his father was appointed professor of geography at the University of Strasbourg in 1875, Gerland spent most of his youth in Alsace, where he met Walter Kisch, among others. After graduating from high school, which Gerland took at a Protestant grammar school in his hometown, he studied law from 1893 to 1896 at the university there and at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . In 1896 he passed the first state law examination in Colmar . In 1901 he obtained his doctorate in Strasbourg. jur. A year later he completed his habilitation in Jena for criminal and procedural law. In 1903 the second state examination followed.

From 1906 he taught as an associate professor at the University of Jena . He declined calls to Basel and Cologne.

Also in 1906 Gerland married Eva Schott (* 1887, a daughter of the glass industrialist Otto Schott ). The marriage remained childless. Soon after his marriage, Gerland went to England for a year until 1907 to study the local legal system.

In 1910 Gerland became a full professor in Jena. From 1910 to 1920 he also served as a higher regional judge at the higher regional court in Jena .

During the First World War Gerland was from 1914 to 1918 in the rank of first lieutenant - later a captain of the Landwehr - active in the headquarters . The tasks that fell to him there were the inspection of the motor vehicle troops and the administration of the motor vehicle fleet of the Grand Headquarters. He was also a member of the Landsturm battalion Weimar.

After the collapse of the German Empire in November 1918, Gerland put his strong political interest into practice by engaging in daily politics through journalistic channels, through political articles in newspapers and magazines.

Weimar Republic and the National Socialist period (1919–1944)

After the war, Gerland took part in the founding of the German Democratic Party (DDP), of which he became deputy chairman. In 1920 he resigned from his position as an appellate judge. In the Reichstag election of May 1924 , Gerland was elected to the Reichstag , in which he represented constituency 12 (Thuringia) until December of the same year. In the same year he left the DDP to join the German People's Party (DVP), which was further to the right .

After 1933 Gerland was banned from political activity by the National Socialist regime. Immediately after reaching the age of 65, he retired on October 1, 1939. During the Second World War he took part in the resistance of the Neubauer-Poser group in Jena. He died in Jena a few months before the end of the Second World War .

Gerland's estate is now stored in the Federal Archives in Koblenz . Parts of his political and private correspondence can be found in the manuscripts and special collections of the Thuringian University and State Library and the University Archives in Jena.

Gerland also published a number of monographs and treatises on subjects of criminal and procedural law, general jurisprudence and English law compared to German.

Fonts

  • The English judicial system , 1910.
  • On the meaning and opposite of life , 1914.
  • Basic questions of criminal law , 1918.
  • German Reich Criminal Law , 1922.
  • The German criminal trial , 1927.
  • Relations between Parliament and the Courts in England , 1928.
  • Spring love & a. Poems , 1928.
  • Legal protection against political dishonesty , 1931.
  • Problems of the current reform situation in law studies at German universities , 1931.
  • Mozart's Requiem , 1938.

Imagery

  • Charcoal drawing by Georg Sauter , owned by the University of Jena in 1923.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theodor Wolff / Bernd Sösemann: Diaries 1914-1919 the First World War and the emergence of the Weimar Republic , 1984, p. 650.
personal data
SURNAME Gerland, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gerland, Heinrich Ernst Karl Balthasar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (DDP, DVP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle on the Saale
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1944
Place of death Jena