Hugo Heinemann

Hugo Heinemann (born February 18, 1863 in Berlin , † August 2, 1919 in Berlin) was a German lawyer , lecturer and social democratic politician.

Live and act

Heinemann's father was a small trader. Nevertheless, Heinemann attended high school and then studied law in Berlin and Munich . He completed his legal doctorate in Berlin. From 1890 Heinemann was a lawyer. In particular, he worked as a successful and influential legal advisor for the free trade unions . In addition, from 1906 to 1914 he was a lecturer at the Reichsparteischule of the SPD and at the trade union teaching courses of the general commission of the free trade unions. He mainly taught in the areas of criminal law , the code of criminal procedure and the penal system . In 1911, Heinemann was the main speaker of the Congress of Free Trade Unions and said to the right of association . As a defense lawyer, he represented Julian Borchardt before the Imperial Court in Leipzig .

Heinemann was one of the first social democrats to assume government responsibility. From November 1918 he was Deputy Prussian Minister of Justice and Undersecretary of State. He was also an associate of the Reich Justice Office and a member of the State Committee.

Shortly before his death, he became a city councilor in Berlin and a member of the state constitutional assembly for Prussia .

Publications

• To reform the code of criminal procedure . Stuttgart 1909
• The right of association in Germany and the preliminary draft of a German criminal code. Presentation given ... at the Eighth Congress of the Trade Unions of Germany (June 1911) . Berlin 1911
• The socialist gains of the wartime . Chemnitz 1915
• Law, administration and politics in the new Germany . (Ed .: Alfred Bozi ; Hugo Heinemann). Stuttgart 1916
• The reform of the German criminal law . Berlin 1919

Web links

• Hugo Heinemann's biography . In: Wilhelm H. Schröder : Social Democratic Parliamentarians in the German Reich and Landtag 1876–1933 (BIOSOP)