Hermann Günther (judge)

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Hermann Gottlieb Eduard Günther (born May 23, 1882 in Berlin ; † October 16, 1945 in Special Camp No. 1 Mühlberg / Elbe ) was a Reich judge .

Life

The son of a Protestant manufacturer passed the first state examination (“good”) in 1905 and the second in 1910 (“good”). He became an assessor in the same year. In 1910 he came to the disciplinary court for non-judicial officials as an unskilled worker. From 1911 he was an assistant judge at the district court in Berlin. Then in 1912 he became a district judge at the district court in Mitte and in 1913 a district judge at the district court I Berlin . From 1915 to 1917 he worked as an assistant judge at the chamber court and from 1920 he was an assistant in the Prussian Ministry of Justice . In 1921 he was promoted to the judge at the Berlin Superior Court. He came to the Reichsgericht on January 4, 1932, initially as an assistant judge. Initially, he was an unskilled worker in the IV Criminal Senate until March 1, then worked in the 8th Civil Senate . In the meantime appointed to the Reich Judicial Council on January 1, 1933, he joined the 4th Civil Senate on July 15, 1933 . On April 1, 1942 Günther became Senate President of the VII Civil Senate . After the end of the war, he was arrested on August 25, 1945 in Leipzig with 39 judges from the Imperial Court and initially imprisoned in the Leipzig court prison without trial. Later he was transferred to special camp No. 1 Mühlberg / Elbe . Günther died there on October 16, 1945.

Party affiliation

  • Two to three years until the end of 1931 in the German People's Party
  • May 1, 1933 Joined the NSDAP under the number 1.961.656
  • since November 8, 1936 block warden in the Reichsbund German civil servants
  • since November 9, 1937 sovereign

Honors

  • Silver Medal of Honor on April 20, 1938
  • Golden Loyalty Service Medal on May 28, 1942

literature

  • Friedrich Karl Kaul : History of the Reichsgericht, Volume IV (1933-1945) , East Berlin 1971.
  • Werner Schuber and Hans Peter Glöckner, reference work of the Reichsgericht Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, Volume 1, §§ 1 - 133, Frankfurt am Main 1994, p. XXXIV.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Initiative group Lager Mühlberg e. V. (Ed.): Book of the Dead - Special Camp No. 1 of the Soviet NKVD, Mühlberg / Elbe , Mühlberg / Elbe, 2008, p. 83, ISBN 978-3-00-026999-8
  2. ↑ August Schaefer : The great dying in the Reichsgericht , in: Deutsche Richterzeitung 1957, pages 249, 250.
  3. ↑ Marius Hetzel: The challenge of racial mixed marriage in the years 1933-1939. Mohr, Tübingen 1997, ISBN 3-16-146751-5 , p. 101.
personal data
SURNAME Günther, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Günther, Hermann Gottlieb Eduard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Imperial Judge
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1945
Place of death Special camp No. 1 Mühlberg / Elbe