Hugo Salinger

Hugo Salinger (born April 5, 1866 in Marienwerder ; † August 8, 1942 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp ) was a German judge .

Life

He passed the Abitur in 1885 as a mediocre student. He originally aspired to become a doctor, but decided to start studying law in Berlin. In 1887 he studied in Greifswald for one semester. In 1888 he became a trainee lawyer after passing the exam in Tiegenhof , then in Danzig, Berlin and Marienwerder. In 1892 he became an assessor in Marienwerder, then in Konitz , Graudenz, Elbing, Gollub and Danzig. Salinger received his doctorate in Greifswald in 1895 (“cum laude”). In 1898 he was appointed district judge in Konitz. During his tenure, the pogroms occurred on the occasion of the Konitz murder affair . In 1906 he was transferred to Breslau. In 1907 he was appointed regional judge and in 1910 higher regional judge. In the personal file in 1914 it says: "Despite his strong Jewish appearance, Salinger is a pleasant personality who, like his wife, has tact and good manners." In 1919 he became a Reich judge. Salinger was active in the VII and V civil senate of the Imperial Court . June 1931 he retired. In 1921 he became a co-founder of the Association of National German Jews . Salinger lived in Leipzig at Scharnhorststrasse 23 II in the Südvorstadt . His colleague Otto Sayn also lived in the house . After retiring, Salinger moved to Hamburg. From here he and his wife were deported to Theresienstadt on July 15, 1942. His estate is kept in the Dutch National Archives.

family

His father was Carl Salinger and his mother was Emma Salinger, nee Lachmann. Like Salinger, his wife Regine (1875-) came from Marienwerder. Her parents were Elias and Rosalia Hirschfeld, née Lachmann. The Salinger couple were probably cousins. The only son Hans Dietrich (1899–1979) emigrated to the Netherlands in 1937.

Works

• On the extent of the property under the mortgage and land charge under Prussian law, Diss.Greifswald 1896.
• “Succession according to the Civil Code”, Archive for Civil Law, Volume 19 (1901) p. 138 .
• “About the seizure of objects used for agricultural operations”, Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung, Volume 10 (1905), Col. 737 .
• "On the question of the cumulative assumption of guilt", Archive for Civil Law, Volume 28 (1906), p. 81 .
• Review of “Dr. Arthur Nussbaum , Die Rechtsstatsachenforschung. Tübingen 1914. Published by JCB Mohr. 48 pp. ”, Journal for German Civil Proceedings, Volume 46 (1917), p. 259 .
• “The right to established and exercised commercial operations”, Contributions to the Explanation of German Law, Volume 62 (1918), p. 289 .

source

• Susanne Lohmeyer: “Dr. Hugo Salinger ”, in the project“ Stolpersteine in Hamburg ”, Hamburg 2005, website , accessed on September 8, 2010.