Heinrich Schönfelder

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Heinrich Ernst Schönfelder (born July 16, 1902 in Nossen ; † July 3, 1944 near Canossa , Province of Massa-Carrara (missing); declared dead on November 7, 1945) was a German lawyer , editor , and officer in the Air Force of the German Reich and author.

Life

The son of the Nossen merchant Heinrich Schönfelder first attended the Königin-Carola-Gymnasium in Leipzig before moving to the Fürstenschule St. Afra in Meißen in 1916 , where he finished high school in 1922 as the fifth best of his year. He completed his law studies in Tübingen and from the summer semester of 1924 in Leipzig . From the summer semester of 1922 until his death he was a member of the Tübingen student union Landsmannschaft Scotland . From November 1923 he was a two-month volunteer in an infantry regiment of the Black Reichswehr .

In January 1925, Schönfelder passed his first state examination in law in Leipzig. After receiving his doctorate in 1927 on the electoral reform under Benito Mussolini , which he judged positively, and taking the second state examination in 1930, he was a local court advisor in Saxony from 1933 .

In 1932, contrary to the wishes of his family, Schönfelder joined the Mazdaznan temple community in Leipzig. This was banned in November 1935 because of its "alien, internationalist and pacifist character and because of its views that contradict National Socialist racial ideas". In September 1936 a general decree of the Reich Ministry of Justice with the title "Membership of officials in the Masonic lodge , other lodges or lodge-like organizations" was issued. According to another general decree in December 1936, the Mazdaznan movement was considered a masonic lodge- like organization . As a result, Schönfelder was fundamentally excluded from further promotions.

Schönfelder joined the NSDAP on April 1, 1933 and became a block warden . He was also a member of associations of the NSDAP such as the Association of National Socialist German Jurists (joined on November 20, 1933) and the National Socialist People's Welfare (joined November 1, 1934), in which he became the deputy local group leader and caretaker. He was also a member of the Reich Air Protection Association , the German Reich Association for Physical Exercise , the Association of the German East and the Reich Colonial Association .

In 1940 Schönfelder, who spoke Italian very well, joined the Air Force , became an officer in September 1941 and a judge- martial in Italy in 1942 . His vehicle was hit in a partisan attack in July 1944 .

Works

The loose-leaf collection called "brick".

In 1931 the collection of laws on German Reich Laws appeared , of which he was the editor. It has been continued to this day under the title German Laws , since the 4th edition (1935) as a loose-leaf collection , and is generally known as " Schönfelder ". The "brick" (because of the red cover) is a well-known book in law.

To make work easier, Schönfelder introduced the headings that are in square brackets above the paragraph. In the meantime, the legislature has taken over the headings of the BGB , so they have become part of the law and are no longer in brackets.

From the 4th edition (1935) onwards, the collection contained the party program of the NSDAP in number 1 and national socialist constitutional law in numbers 2 to 19. This is why the first law listed in "Schönfelder", the BGB, is only marked as no. The Basic Law , which has meanwhile been inserted under number 1, has been removed again for reasons of space.

Since 2007 there has been a hardback edition in addition to the loose-leaf collection.

In 1929, while still as a trainee lawyer, Schönfelder initiated and founded the inexpensive series “Test your knowledge” at the publishing house CH Beck , which conveys legal knowledge relevant to the exam in a question-and-answer style. The successful series was discontinued under the National Socialists in 1934, but reissued by the publisher after the end of the war and is still published today.

Family and private

Schönfelder was the eldest of three sons of the linen manufacturer Heinrich Schönfelder and his wife Lina, nee. Rietschel. Heinrich Schönfelder had been married to Ellen Siebert, the daughter of an architect and master builder, since 1931 and had two sons, Heinrich and Christian, although the younger Christian died in 2005 at the age of 66 and left behind descendants. Heinrich Schönfelder was very health conscious, which also explains the membership in the Mazdaznan movement. For Schönfelder, who turned to tennis and golf, sport played a major role.

bibliography

  • Hans Wrobel: Heinrich Schönfelder - Collector of German Laws 1902–1944 . CH Beck, Munich 1997. ISBN 3-406-43085-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kerstin Wagner: A collector of German laws. Exhibition about the lawyer Heinrich Schönfelder in the legal library , in: SLUB -Kurier, 13th Jg., H. 3 (1999), p. 16.
  2. ^ Hans Wrobel: Heinrich Schönfelder - Collector of German Laws 1902–1944 , CH Beck, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-43085-6 , p. 102 f.
personal data
SURNAME Schönfelder, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schönfelder, Heinrich Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, editor and author
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Nossen
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: July 3, 1944
Place of death Italy