Hodo von Hodenberg

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Hodo Hermann Heinrich Luthard Baron von Hodenberg (born April 13, 1887 in Leipzig , † December 26, 1962 in Celle ) was a German lawyer and politician ( CDU ). He was a board member of the German Bar Association , President of the Higher Regional Court of Celle and a member of the Lower Saxony State Parliament .

Life and work

He comes from the Lüneburg noble family Hodenberg . One of his relatives was the Hanoverian Minister of Education, Bodo von Hodenberg . After graduating from the humanistic Thomas School in Leipzig , von Hodenberg began studying law at the universities of Munich , Göttingen and Heidelberg , which he completed with two state examinations. In 1906 he became a member of the Corps Vandalia in Heidelberg . He was born in 1909 with the dissertation The contracts for difference and stock market futures in the case law to the Dr. jur. PhD. He worked as a lawyer at the OLG Celle since 1913 and was appointed notary in 1924 .

With his wife Ursula geb. Lichtenberg he had a total of eleven children between 1914 and 1936, two of whom died in the Second World War.

During the First World War he was in the rank of major commander of the grenadier regiment "Kaiser Wilhelm, King of Prussia" (2nd Royal Saxon) No. 101 . He was awarded the Knight's Cross First Class.

From 1930 to 1933 he was on the board of the German Lawyers' Association (DAV). His colleague on the board of directors at the Max Friedlaender lawyers' association remembered:

“The young higher regional court attorney from Celle Frhr was extremely personable. von Hodenberg; Outwardly a slender corps student with many throws, looking a bit like degenerate nobility, he was in reality a passionate fighter who was not at all reactionary, first-class in character and a loyal friend. His wife was a similar type, of some noble sex, but with all the virtues of a bourgeois woman. The couple had around 12 children over the years .... "

From 1945 to 1955 he was President of the Higher Regional Court in Celle. Ulrich Vultejus wrote about him:

“Baron von Hodenberg was a conservative man close to the Guelphs. Before 1945 he had not made common ground with the Nazis, although it must be noted that the SA leader Dr. Klapproth as well as the lawyer Dr. Kurt Blanke were his partners in his law firm. […] Hodenberg is the key figure who made it possible for heavily burdened Nazis to return to justice in unimaginable numbers. His motives have always remained hidden from me; I only know that my father had a very serious discussion with him about it and that the reasons remained hidden from him. The debate - my father had become President of the Bar Association in 1945 - focused on the return of the Nazis to the legal profession and Hodenberg had tried to convince my father with the argument that the legal profession had always been a refuge for the politically persecuted. "

As a legal positivist and member of the Heidelberg legal circle , he rejected the Control Council Act No. 10 of the Allies, which provided for war crimes trials. After his tenure he worked again as a lawyer before he renounced his license to practice in 1957. He was u. a. Co-editor of the journal Archive for Civilist Practice (AcP).

Von Hodenberg was an Evangelical Lutheran denomination and a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover , the General Synod of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germany (VELKD) and the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD).

politics

Hodenberg was a member of the German-Hanoverian Party (DHP) until 1933 . He rejected the Prussian claim to rule and National Socialism. From 1933 to 1945 he held no offices or mandates. After the Second World War he joined the CDU and became a member of the court of arbitration. From 1955 to 1959, Hodenberg was a member of the DP / CDU parliamentary group in the Lower Saxony state parliament.

Works (selection)

  • The contracts for difference and stock market futures in the case law . Heidelberg 1909 (dissertation).
  • Situation and fate of the German legal profession . Berlin 1932.

literature

  • Hans-Harald Franzki (Ed.): Festschrift for the 275th anniversary of the Higher Regional Court of Celle . Celle 1986.
  • Andreas Röpke: Who's Who in Lower Saxony. A political-biographical guide of the British occupying power 1948/49. In: Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen (Ed.): Lower Saxony Yearbook for State History . New issue of the magazine of the historical association for Lower Saxony . Volume 55, pp. 243-310, here pp. 280 f.
  • Katrin Rieke: Hodo Freiherr von Hodenberg. In: Norbert Steinau (Red.): 300 years of the Higher Regional Court of Celle. Documentation of the exhibition in the Bomann Museum Celle from September 16, 2011 to March 18, 2012. Bomann Museum / Higher Regional Court of Celle, 2012, ISBN 978-3-925902-85-7 , p. 78.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1910, 122, 835.
  2. ^ Ulrich Vultejus: Golden youth . In: Werner Holtfort, Norbert Kandel, Wilfried Köppen, Ulrich Vultejus (eds.): Behind the facades. Stories from a German city. 2nd Edition. Steidl, Göttingen 1982, ISBN 3-88243-014-1 , p. 87 ( archive.org [accessed March 14, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Hodenberg, Hodo from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hodenberg, Hodo Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1962
Place of death Celle