Hermann Coenders

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Hermann Coenders (born March 2, 1874 in Kaiserswerth , † after 1934) was a German judge .

Life

Coenders passed the first legal state examination in 1896 with the grade "passed", the second legal state examination in 1901 with "sufficient". In 1896 he was sworn in to the Prussian sovereign. Until 1906 he was an unskilled worker at the public prosecutor's office and assistant judge at the regional court and district court. In 1906 he became a district judge at the Düsseldorf Regional Court . In 1917 he was promoted to district judge. At the end of April 1918 he came as a councilor to the War Food Office and was taken over to the Reich Food Ministry in 1919 . In June 1919 he was appointed Regional Court Director at the Regional Court of Cologne and, from 1924, at the same time as District Court Counselor at the Cologne District Court . On New Year's Day 1925 he came to the Reich Court . He was active in the 4th Criminal Senate and in the 2nd Civil Senate . He was a member of the State Court for the Protection of the Republic, initially as a deputy, and in the first half of 1926 as a full member. He was involved as a judge in the Ulm Reichswehr Trial and the Reichstag Fire Trial. In the Reichstag fire trial, the trial observers described him as having a " finely chiseled " head with the " abundance of wavy silver hair " and a voice that "rang like a church bell" ( Douglas Reed ). In the case of non- National Socialist witnesses, he formulated the questions particularly sharply and the NZZ correspondent Ernst Lemmer reported on the interrogation of Hermann Göring on November 4, 1933 : “ The judges listen to (Göring's) statements with stern expressions; the only exception is Dr. Coenders, who nods and smiles again and again and smiles with his whole face. “Biting aside from Coenders' show that he rejected Bünger because of his awkwardness, awkwardness, forgetfulness and formal violations.

Coenders took early retirement on October 1, 1934. On January 2, 1934, State Secretary Schlegelberger asked Reich Court President Bumke for “ a detailed official report on the case of Reich Court Counselor Coenders ” on garnishment of salaries and open tax claims, beginning in 1931. In his statement, Coenders saw himself “ as the whipping boy more ill-considered and poorly thought out Orders of the earlier system ”and regretted having worked at the Reichsgericht, saying that he only came there at the instigation of the Prussian judicial administration because of his“ conflicts with the French occupation authorities ”. After he had been urged to retire from various quarters (including a private visit by a fellow judge in Berzdorf at the instigation of Bumke), Coenders was forced to do so because of the allegations and his state of health. His daughter Christa was married to Hans Dichgans .

literature

  • Adolf Lobe : Fifty Years of the Reich Court on October 1, 1929, Berlin 1929, p. 386.
  • Friedrich Karl Kaul : History of the Reichsgericht, Volume IV (1933-1945), East Berlin 1971, pp. 284f.
  • Dieter Deiseroth: The Reichstag fire: Trial and the rule of law, in: Dieter Deiseroth (Hrsg.): The Reichstag fire and the trial before the Reichsgericht . Verlagsgesellschaft Tischler, Berlin 2006, p. 52f.
  • Fritz Tobias : The Reichstag Fire - Legend and Reality . Grote, Rastatt 1962, pp. 284f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Year after praise
  2. ↑ after praise; in the second semester with praise not recorded

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personal data
SURNAME Coenders, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Imperial Judge
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaiserswerth
DATE OF DEATH after 1934