Hildegard Kruger

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Hildegard Krüger (born May 21, 1909 in Hamburg-Wandsbek ; † April 5, 1994 in Marmagen ) was a German judge , women's rights activist and author . She was a judge at the State Administrative Court in Düsseldorf and author of the Beck commentary on the Equal Rights Act .

Career

Hildegard Krüger achieved a “very good” in the trainee lawyer exam in 1931 and graduated from the assessor exam with the top rating “commendable” in 1935. Since, in the opinion of the Gestapo , she never missed an opportunity to criticize National Socialism , she was not employed as a lawyer in the Third Reich . To make a living she worked as a maid, ticket seller, accountant and teacher. The attempt to take up a subsequent philosophical study failed because of a war injury. After the end of National Socialism in Germany, she took up a position in the Interior Ministry of Schleswig-Holstein in 1945 . Subsequently, Krüger was appointed judge at what was then the State Administrative Court in Düsseldorf.

Positions

Krüger expressed strong criticism of the family law of the Federal Republic of Germany , which continued to have patriarchal structures after the end of National Socialism , such as the father's right to cast a casting vote or the right to name , which was based on the name of the husband. In this context, she also criticized the Equal Rights Act , which only allowed women to add their maiden name and which still contained the paternal casting vote and the sole power to represent the children together, as unconstitutional: “The world is democratizing, and even the tyrants believe that they are democratic Not being able to disregard the facade. Nonetheless, the Bundestag believed that it had to create the patriarchal father as a legal model contrary to the norm of the constitution. ”She saw the unequal treatment in family law as an expression of a democratization deficit and advocated“ legally viewing marriage as what it is in every respect should be: the community in which men and women have equal weight and rights ”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Women's biographies at www.hamburg.de , accessed on January 12, 2019
  2. ↑ https://www.lto.de/recht/feuilleton/f/einfluss-juristen-dehler-dreher-nipperdey/9/
  3. ↑ http://d-nb.info/452607043
  4. ^ A b Administrative judge: Hostility from outside . In: Der Spiegel . No. 3 , 1963, p. 39 f . ( Online - January 16, 1963 ).
  5. ↑ http://library.fes.de/gmh/main/pdf-files/gmh/1959/1959-12-Mitteilungen.pdf
  6. ↑ https://www.lto.de/recht/feuilleton/f/namensrecht-ehe-familienname-nachname-rechtsgeschichte/
  7. ↑ The future of notaries . In: Der Spiegel . No.  28 , 1958, pp. 22-26 ( online - 9 July 1958 ).
  8. ↑ Werner Konitzer: Moralisierung des Rechts, 2014 yearbook on the history and effects of the Holocaust, p. 71
  9. ^ Till van Rahden: Democracy and fatherly authority. The Karlsruhe “final decision” judgment of 1959 in the political culture of the early Federal Republic . In: Contemporary historical research . No. 2 , 2005, ISSN  1612-6033 , p. 160-179 ( zeithistorische-forschungen.de [PDF; 917 kB ]).
personal data
SURNAME Kruger, Hildegard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German judge, women's rights activist and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg-Wandsbek
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1994
Place of death Marmagen