Herbert Ruscheweyh
Herbert Ruscheweyh (born November 13, 1892 in Hamburg ; † March 11, 1965 there ) was a German lawyer who was President of the Hamburg Parliament from 1931 to 1933 . From 1948 until he retired in 1960, he held the highest judicial posts in Hamburg.
Life
Herbert Ruscheweyh was born as the son of the real estate agent Paul Erwin Ruscheweyh and his wife Bertha Mergaretha, nee. Lincke was born. He first attended elementary school in the secondary school in front of the Lübecker Tor and then the Kgl. Matthias-Claudius-Gymnasium in Hamburg-Wandsbek . After studying law in Neuchâtel , Munich and Kiel , he was a volunteer with the Hussar Regiment "Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands" (Hannoversches) No. 15 in Wandsbek during the First World War . Most recently, he served as a lieutenant in the reserves in Field Artillery Regiment. 223 and received u. a. the Hanseatic Cross and the Wound Badge . In 1917, under the influence of war experiences, he joined the SPD.
In 1918 the doctorate to Dr. iur. at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . In 1921 Ruscheweyh settled in Hamburg as a lawyer and founded a successful law firm with Max Eichholz . Ruscheweyh was a member of the SPD and from 1928 to 1933 a member of the Hamburg Parliament . From 1931 until the National Socialists came to power in Hamburg on March 8, 1933, he was President of the City Council. During the Nazi era, Ruscheweyh mainly worked as a lawyer. He made a name for himself by courageously defending communists and social democrats in court, for example by Julius Leber in 1933 . The Gestapo obtained a ban on defense lawyers in political criminal proceedings. Nevertheless, Ruscheweyh was so respected that he could continue to practice as a lawyer until 1944 subject to conditions. In 1935 the partnership with Eichholz had to be dissolved. Ruscheweyh was arrested after the failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944 and was imprisoned in the Fuhlsbüttel police prison for several weeks .
After the Second World War , Ruscheweyh was elected President of the Hanseatic Bar Association on October 30, 1945. A few months later he gave up his legal practice. On January 2, 1946, he became Vice-President of the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court and on October 1, 1946, its President. At the same time he exercised the corresponding offices of the Higher Administrative Court and of the Hamburg Constitutional Court, which was then established by law of October 2, 1953 . In addition, Ruscheweyh served as President of the German Higher Court for the United Economic Area in Cologne, which existed from February 27, 1948 to December 27, 1951 . On February 27, 1946, as President, he had presided over the first session of the citizenship appointed by the British occupation authorities ; he was replaced from this office in the second meeting on March 8, 1946 by the unanimous election of Adolph Schönfelders .
From 1951 Ruscheweyh was an honorary professor in the law faculty of the University of Hamburg. Ruscheweyh served as President of the German Lawyers' Conference in 1953, 1955, 1957 and 1960. In 1961 he received the Great Cross of Merit with Star and Shoulder Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .
In 1975 a street in Hamburg-Wandsbek was named after him.
literature
- Daniel Ihonor: Herbert Ruscheweyh. Responsibility in difficult times. Nomos , Baden-Baden 2006, ISBN 3-8329-1976-7 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Herbert Ruscheweyh in the catalog of the German National Library
- Lecture about Ruscheweyh on the website of the Hamburg judges' association
- social democratic resistance and persecution: Herbert Ruscheweyh
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jan Albers : The procedure of the Hamburg constitutional court , in Heinrich Ackermann, Jan Albers, Karl August Bettermann (ed.): From the Hamburg legal life. Walter Reimers on his 65th birthday , Berlin 1979, p. 349 books.google
- ^ Walter Tormin : The history of the SPD in Hamburg 1945 to 1950 , Hamburg 1994, p. 81 books.google
Herbert Ruscheweyh (1953–1960) | Hans Görtz (1960–1965) | Reinhart Vogler (1965–1969) | Walter Stiebeler (1969–1984) | Helmut Plambeck (1985–1994) | Wilhelm Rapp (1994-2007) | Gerd Harder (2007–2012) | Joachim Pradel (2012–2016) | Friedrich-Joachim Mehmel (2016–2020) | Birgit Voßkühler (since 2020)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ruscheweyh, Herbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and politician (SPD), MdHB, President of the Hamburg Parliament, President of the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 13, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 11, 1965 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |