Hellmuth Stutzer

Hellmuth Stutzer (born January 23, 1890 in Berlin ; † October 17, 1961 ) was a German lawyer . After 1945 he was the first president of the newly founded Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Bremen .

job

Hellmuth Stutzer passed his first legal state examination in Berlin in 1914 and joined the Prussian judicial service as a trainee lawyer. He took part in the First World War, most recently as a lieutenant in the reserve. In 1918 he married a woman from Bremen, acquired the citizenship of Bremen and completed his legal clerkship in Bremen from 1920 to 1921. In December 1921 he was admitted to the bar at the then joint Hanseatic Higher Regional Court of the Hanseatic cities of Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck. After the Second World War he was an assistant judge in Bremen from June 1945 to January 1946, but continued to work as a lawyer and notary (until the end of 1949). In June 1947 he was temporarily commissioned by the Bremen Senate to set up and manage the newly founded Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Bremen , of which he was officially appointed first President in November 1949. He retired in 1955. In addition to his work as President of the Higher Regional Court, he was Deputy President of the State Court of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen from 1949 to 1956 .

Attitude to National Socialism

According to the personnel form of the Reich Ministry of Justice , Stutzer was a member of the DNVP before 1933 . Although he belonged to the Nazi Legal Guardian Association and the Reich Colonial Association , he did not join the NSDAP . The Denazification Chamber therefore classified him in 1947 as " not affected by the ( denazification ) law". In Hanno Balz's study of the Aryanization of Jewish property in Bremen, Stutzer is cited as a positive example. Since the last Jewish lawyers were withdrawn from their license in 1938, he had been the legal advisor to the Jewish community in Bremen, and was known to a Jewish homeowner from whom he bought her house on behalf of his wife at a fair price so that she could cover the costs of the Escape to Cuba could pay. Since he hadn't lowered the price despite the saleswoman's plight, he got into trouble with the land registry and the Gestapo , which confiscated the house. Only after two legal proceedings and an intervention at the Reich Ministry of the Interior did he get the house, which was destroyed in a bomb attack in 1943.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ personnel files, archive state Bremen 3-A.5.bS29; 4.10 - acc. 61 - 127 and 128.
2. ↑ State Archives Bremen 4.10 - Akz. 61 - 127 and 128.
3. ^ Hanno Balz, The "Aryanization" of Jewish houses and real estate in Bremen. Bremen 2004, pp. 110-112 [1] , State Archive Bremen 4.54 Ra + Rü - Ra 613.