Heinrich Wetzlar

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Heinrich Wetzlar (born May 30, 1868 in Mannheim ; † August 6, 1943 in the Theresienstadt ghetto ) was a German lawyer and a victim of National Socialism.

biography

Wetzlar was the son of a Jewish businessman. He put 1886 in his hometown of Mannheim, the High School and studied at the universities of Heidelberg and Berlin law .

After completing legal training and completing his doctorate, he entered the Baden state service and held various positions at the district courts of Heidelberg , Pforzheim and Karlsruhe , at the Karlsruhe public prosecutor , at the district courts in Pfullendorf , Rastatt and again Karlsruhe, and at the Karlsruhe regional court . He switched between civil and criminal judicial activities several times. In 1917 he was appointed to the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court , and in 1925 he returned to the Karlsruhe Regional Court as director of the regional court. In 1930 Wetzlar was appointed President of the Mannheim Regional Court as successor to Franz Schlimm .

At the end of March 1933, shortly before the end of his regular service, Wetzlar was given a leave of absence under pressure from the rampaging SA and took early retirement on August 1, 1933. Shortly after the outbreak of war, he moved in with his son, who had moved to the Netherlands . In March 1943, the elderly Wetzlar and his wife Therese were deported from the Netherlands to the Theresienstadt ghetto , where they both died of typhus a few months later .

Heinrich Wetzlar House

Stumbling block in front of the Mannheim Regional Court

The Heinrich Wetzlar House near Stutensee Castle , a special facility for juveniles who have committed criminal offenses, is named after him. This is a reminder that Wetzlar had acquired Stutensee Castle in 1919 for the Karlsruhe district association for the protection of minors and prisoner welfare and had done educational work there together with his wife until the couple was banned by the National Socialists in 1933.

In addition, a stumbling block reminds of Wetzlar today ; The Mannheim Regional Court has taken on the sponsorship of the Stolperstein.

literature

  • Detlev Fischer : Karlsruhe Juristenportraits: from the time before the Residenz des Rechts , Karlsruhe 2004 (series of publications by the Legal History Museum Karlsruhe, Volume 9), ISBN 3-922596-60-6 , pages 51-57.
  • Detlev Fischer : "The discrimination and persecution of judges of Jewish origin in Baden by the Nazi regime presented on the basis of the lives of court presidents Heinrich Wetzlar, Otto Levis, Max Silberstein and Karl Eisemann", in: Recht und Politik , Heft 41 (2005), pages 46-53.
  • Detlev Fischer: Legal history tours through Karlsruhe: Residence of the law. ( Series of publications by the Legal History Museum Karlsruhe. Issue 10), Karlsruhe 2005, ISBN 3-922596-65-7 .
  • Reiner Haehling von Lanzenauer (Red.): A memory of Dr. Heinrich and Therese Wetzlar, speeches and lectures . Karlsruhe 2004, ISBN 3-00-014608-3 .
  • Reiner Haehling v. Lanzenauer: "Heinrich Wetzlar 1868–1943", in: View into history No. 42 of March 19, 1999, Karlsruhe 1999.
  • Reiner Haehling von Lanzenauer: "Heinrich Wetzlar - from the fate of a helper", in: Zeitschrift für Strafvollzug und Straffälligenhilfe , No. 42, 1993, pages 150 ff.
  • Richard Wetzlar (Ed.): Commemorative sheets to the President of the Regional Court, Dr. Heinrich Wetzlar and his wife Therese, b. Joseph. , self-published by the editor, Naarden (Kgr. Netherlands) 1962
  • Willy Andreas with Max Silberstein : "Memorial words for Heinrich Wetzlar", in: Mannheimer Hefte , No. 3 (1963), pages 46-49
  • Karl Otto Watzinger: Wetzlar, Heinrich, district court president, victim of the Nazi regime: * May 30, 1868 Mannheim, isr., Died 1943 Theresienstadt concentration camp , in: Badische Biographien , Neue Reihe , Volume 3 (1990), pages 289 f.
  • Benedikt Gerweck: Dr. Heinrich Wetzlar (1868–1943) - pioneer of youth court assistance . In: Wilhelm Kreuz, Volker von Offenberg (ed.): Jewish students of the United Grand Ducal Lyceum - Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium Mannheim. Portraits from two decades, Mannheim 2014 (series of publications by the Karl-Friedrich-Gymnasium Mannheim in cooperation with the Mannheim City Archives - Institute for Urban History; 2), ISBN 978-3-95428-153-4 , pp. 107–116.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Schloss Stutensee: History ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , PDF file from www.jugendlkr.de, accessed on March 7, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jugend-lkr.de
  2. ↑ Library catalog of the Mannheim City Archives ( call number J / 34)  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stadtarchiv.mannheim.de  
  3. ↑ Library catalog of the Mannheim City Archives (signature A 1/2)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stadtarchiv.mannheim.de  

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personal data
SURNAME Wetzlar, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German judge
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1943
Place of death Theresienstadt concentration camp