Heinrich Schmidt (judge)

Karl Ludwig Theodor Heinrich Schmidt (born June 11, 1856 in Hungen ; † April 29, 1927 in Leipzig ) was chairman of the State Court for the Protection of the Republic and President of the Senate at the Reich Court .

Life

Schmidt studied law at the Hessian Ludwig University . In 1874 he became active in the Corps Hassia Gießen . He got a doctorate. From 1876 he was in the judicial service of Hessen-Darmstadt , in 1880 he became a district attorney and in 1882 a district judge in Worms . In 1885 he was appointed public prosecutor in Darmstadt , and in 1892 he became a district judge in Mainz . In 1894 he was promoted to the district judge . First public prosecutor in Mainz, he was appointed senior public prosecutor in 1896 and one year later .

In 1905 he came to the Imperial Court. As a Reich judge he was active in the 1st Criminal Senate. In 1921 he became President of the Second Criminal Senate . Schmidt was chairman of the Leipzig trials against German war criminals. In 1922 he was appointed deputy chairman of the State Court for the Protection of the Republic. From January 1923 to August 1924 he was chairman of the State Court. Schmidt chaired the trial against Hanns Hustert and Karl Oehlschläger , who had carried out an attack with hydrogen cyanide on Philipp Scheidemann . He retired in 1924 for health reasons.

Works

Repetition of canon law . Printed and published by Roßberg'schen Buchhandlung in 1884.

literature

Ingo J. Hueck: The State Court for the Protection of the Republic . Tübingen 1996, p.102

Web links

Heinrich Schmidt in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic

Individual evidence

^ Staff at the Grand Ducal Hessian Ludewigs University in Giessen: Summer semester from Easter to Michaelmas 1876, p. 28 ( PDF ).
↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 37 , 620
↑ cf. Protocols of the Reichstag: Answer of January 23, 1923 to the inquiry about offensive statements by the chairman, Senate President Dr. Schmidt on the Deutschvölkische: Bd. 357, 289. Headquarters. P. 9455D.

personal data
SURNAME	Schmidt, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schmidt, Karl Ludwig Theodor Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Imperial Judge
DATE OF BIRTH	June 11, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hunger
DATE OF DEATH	April 29, 1927
Place of death	Leipzig

[1] Staff at the Grand Ducal Hessian Ludewigs University in Giessen: Summer semester from Easter to Michaelmas 1876, p. 28 ( PDF ).

[2] Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 37 , 620

[3] . Protocols of the Reichstag: Answer of January 23, 1923 to the inquiry about offensive statements by the chairman, Senate President Dr. Schmidt on the Deutschvölkische: Bd. 357, 289. Headquarters. P. 9455D.