III. Criminal Senate of the Reich Court
The III. Criminal Senate of the Reichsgericht was a ruling body of the Reichsgericht . It was one of the six senates that dealt with criminal matters . The Senate existed from 1879 to 1945.
Rules of Procedure
The Senate was responsible:
- 1879: for criminal matters from the higher regional court districts of Braunschweig , Kassel , Celle , Dresden , Hamburg , Hamm , Jena , Kassel , Kiel , Naumburg , Oldenburg and Rostock .
- 1896: for criminal matters from the higher regional court districts of Celle, Dresden, Hamburg, Jena, Naumburg, Oldenburg and the regional court districts of Essen and Dortmund.
- 1931: for criminal cases from the higher regional court districts of Celle, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Hamm and Kiel as well as decisions under the extradition law.
- 1941: for criminal cases from the higher regional court districts of Braunschweig, Hamburg, Jena, Kassel, Kiel, Cologne , Naumburg, Leitmeritz and Prague as well as decisions under the extradition law.
occupation
Color legend:
- Retired before July 1, 1919
- Retired before October 1, 1934
- Retired after October 1, 1934
- Richter after 1946 (if known)
Senate presidents
| No. | Surname | appointment | Resignation from the Senate | comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anton von Beyerle (1824–1886) | October 1, 1879 | March 14, 1886 | deceased |
| 2 | Wolf von Wolff (1824–1900) | March 14, 1886 | October 1, 1897 | retirement |
| 3 | Ludwig Treplin (1834-1924) | October 1, 1897 | January 1, 1908 | retirement |
| 4th | Justus von Olshausen (1844–1924) | January 1, 1908 | November 1, 1910 | retirement |
| 5 | Rudolf von Pelargus (1853–1923) | November 1, 1910 | December 1, 1923 | retirement |
| 6th | Alexander Niedner (1862–1930) | May 22, 1924 | October 1, 1924 | Transfer to the 5th criminal senate |
| 7th | Heinrich Leopold Moritz Ernst Stoeckel (1856–) | October 1, 1924 | December 1, 1924 | retirement |
| 8th | Friedrich Oegg (1870–1959) | March 1, 1925 | January 20, 1926 | Transfer to the 3rd civil senate |
| 9 | Josef Max Reichert (1865–) | January 20, 1926 | April 23, 1926 | Transfer to the 5th criminal senate |
| 10 | Walter Simons (1861-1937) | April 23, 1926 | April 1, 1929 | retirement |
| 11 | Erwin Bumke (1874–1945) | April 13, 1929 | April 20, 1945 | Deceased |
Imperial judges
| No. | Surname | Senate entry | Resignation from the Senate | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Emil Schüler (1810–1881) | October 1, 1879 | January 1, 1881 | retirement | |
| 2 | Hermann von Graevenitz (1815–1890) | October 1, 1879 | January 1, 1883 | retirement | |
| 3 | Wilhelm Maßmann (1837-1916) | October 1, 1879 | January 1, 1883 | Transfer to the 1st civil senate | |
| 4th | Walter Petsch (1825–1903) | October 1, 1879 | October 1, 1892 | retirement | |
| 5 | Albert Bolze (1834–1912) | October 1, 1879 | March 1, 1881 | Transfer to the 1st civil senate | |
| 6th | Wilhelm Spies (1830-1901) | October 1, 1879 | April 1, 1889 | Resignation to the "Brunswick judicial service" | |
| 7th | Hugo Schwarz (1817-1897) | June 1, 1880 | October 1, 1892 | retirement | |
| 8th | Georg Free Life (1839–1919) | January 1, 1881 | January 1, 1893 | Senate President of the 4th Criminal Senate | |
| 9 | Otto Mittelstaedt (1834–1899) | March 1, 1881 | October 1, 1896 | retirement | |
| 10 | Gustav von Bezold (1829-1892) | May 1, 1882 | May 1, 1886 | Transfer to the 6th civil senate | |
| 11 | Ernst Sigismund Puchelt (1820–1885) | January 1, 1883 | April 11, 1883 | Transfer to the 2nd civil senate | |
| 12 | Karl Oskar Meves (1828–1898) | January 1, 1883 | April 1, 1884 | Transfer to the 4th criminal senate | |
| 13 | Gustav Friedrich August Wienstein (1828-1891) | April 11, 1883 | July 1, 1884 | Transfer to the 4th criminal senate | |
| 14th | Max Gustav Neisse (1839–1906) | May 1, 1886 | April 1, 1902 | Senate President of the 1st Criminal Senate | |
| 15th | Viktor von Liebe (1839–1906) | April 1, 1889 | October 1, 1891 | Transfer to the 3rd civil senate | |
| 16 | Heinrich Müller (1834–1906) | December 1, 1889 | January 1, 1891 | Transfer to the 3rd civil senate | |
| 17th | Eugen Schmidt (1834-) | January 1, 1891 | June 1, 1891 | Transfer to the 1st criminal senate | |
| 18th | Otto Suppes (1836-1911) | October 1, 1891 | January 1, 1892 | Transfer to the 4th criminal senate | |
| 19th | Alexander Achilles (1833-1900) | October 1, 1891 | January 1, 1892 | Transfer to the 5th civil senate | |
| 20th | Melchior Stenglein (1825–1903) | January 1, 1892 | January 1, 1896 | Transfer to the 6th criminal senate ??? retirement | |
| 21st | Paul Wiesand (1835-1901) | October 1, 1892 | February 1, 1898 | retirement | |
| 22nd | Karl Ernst Willibald Toussaint (1838–1898) | November 1, 1892 | November 29, 1898 | Deceased | |
| 23 | Franz Friedrich Schulte (1837-1911) | January 1, 1893 | October 1, 1901 | retirement | |
| 24 | Ferdinand von Dincklage (1839–1906) | June 1, 1894 | 4th January 1906 | Deceased | |
| 25th | Georg Ludwig Konrad von Bruchhausen (1846–1899) | February 15, 1895 | May 1, 1896 | Transfer to the 2nd criminal senate | |
| 26th | Georg Foerster (1844–1916) | October 1, 1896 | October 1, 1910 | retirement | |
| 27 | Karl von Hassell (1841–1925) | October 1, 1896 | May 1, 1897 | Transfer to the 1st civil senate | |
| 28 | Christian von Kolb (1848–1924) | January 1, 1898 | January 1, 1900 | Transfer to the 7th civil senate | |
| 29 | Moritz Alexander Bartsch (1845–1918) | February 1, 1898 | May 1, 1899 | Transfer to the 4th criminal senate | |
| 30th | Wladislaus Johann Willibald Alfred Wyszomirski (1846–1919) | March 1, 1899 | May 1, 1904 | retirement | |
| 31 | Franz Schumann (1844–1905) | May 1, 1899 | July 24, 1905 | Deceased | |
| 32 | Benno Sabarth (1849-) | January 1, 1900 | November 1, 1902 | Transfer to the 2nd criminal senate | |
| 33 | Wilhelm Boele (1843-1919) | October 1, 1901 | October 1, 1910 | retirement | |
| 34 | Ludwig Ebermayer (1858–1933) | April 1, 1902 and October 1, 1914 | January 1, 1913 and January 1, 1919 | Transfer to the 1st Criminal Senate or Senate President of the 2nd Criminal Senate | |
| 35 | Johann Karl Philipp Wundsch (1850-) | October 1, 1902 | March 1, 1904 | retirement | |
| 36 | Julius Eichelbaum (1850-1921) | March 1, 1904 | January 1, 1920 | retirement | |
| 37 | Julius Erler (1846-) | May 1, 1904 | October 1, 1904 | Transfer to the 4th civil senate | |
| 38 | Max Ludwig Rohde (1850-) | October 1, 1904 | April 17, 1906 | Transfer to the 5th criminal senate | |
| 39 | Valentin Grimm (1850-) | November 1, 1905 | July 1, 1917 | retirement | |
| 40 | Johannes Georg Kiehl (1851–1926) | February 8, 1906 | May 1, 1909 | Transfer to the 5th civil senate | |
| 41 | Richard Paul Gustav Scholber (1852-) | April 17, 1906 | July 1, 1909 | Transfer to the 7th civil senate | |
| 42 | Ernst Neukamp (1852-1919) | May 1, 1909 | February 1, 1912 | Transfer to the 6th civil senate | |
| 43 | Ernst Conrad (1858–1930) | July 1, 1909 | July 1, 1926 | retirement | |
| 44 | Georg Zaeschmar (1852–1932) | October 8, 1910 | September 1, 1913 | Transfer to the 4th criminal senate | |
| 45 | Friedrich Buff (1859-1934) | April 1, 1911 | June 1, 1927 | retirement | |
| 46 | Ludwig Happich (1858-) | February 1, 1912 | October 1, 1923 | retirement | |
| 47 | Paul Viereck (1860-1915) | September 16, 1912 | January 1, 1915 | Transfer to the 2nd criminal senate | |
| 48 | Alexander Niedner (1862–1930) | September 16, 1913 | October 1, 1914 | Transfer to the 5th criminal senate | |
| 49 | Wilhelm Witt (1869–) | October 18, 1915 and December 1, 1923 | July 15, 1923 and September 16, 1925 | At the same time 2nd criminal senate or transfer to the 4th criminal senate or to the 2nd civil senate (May 1 - July 24, 1925 also in this senate) | |
| 50 | Adolf Müller (1866–) | September 24, 1917 | after 1929 | ||
| 51 | Rudolf Schultheis (1865–) | March 1, 1918 | July 15, 1923 | Transfer to the 2nd criminal senate | |
| 52 | Peter Clasen (1866–) | October 2, 1918 | April 28, 1919 | At the same time from February 1, 1919 in the 2nd civil senate | |
| 53 | Heinrich Krauße (1871–1934) | February 11, 1920 | December 11, 1923 | Transfer to the 2nd criminal senate | |
| 54 | Walter Willhöfft (1873–1936) | February 28, 1923 | April 15, 1923 | Transfer to the criminal senate of the first instance | |
| 55 | Heinrich von Feilitsch (1856–1933) | April 15, 1923 | July 15, 1923 | Transfer to the 2nd criminal senate | |
| 56 | Adolf Wiebe (1856-) | July 15, 1923 | October 1, 1924 | retirement | |
| 57 | Conrad von Kienitz (1865–1949) | July 15, 1923 | 1933 | retirement | |
| 58 | Alfons David (1866–1954) | July 15, 1923 | October 1, 1924 | Transfer to the 5th civil senate | |
| 59 | Rudolf Greuner (1858–1926) | October 1, 1924 | January 1, 1926 | retirement | |
| 60 | Maximilian Schwalb (1864–1943) | November 15, 1925 | January 1, 1925 | Transfer to the 4th criminal senate | |
| 61 | Max Oelschlaeger (1861-) | January 1, 1925 | after 1929 | ||
| 62 | Hermann Schmitz (1873–1952) | April 23, 1926 | July 1, 1938 | Retirement or also 5th criminal senate | |
| 63 | Max Rosenthal (1868–1930) | July 15, 1926 | 1930 | Deceased | |
| 64 | Gustav Güngerich (1872–) | June 4, 1927 and October 16, 1939 | April 1, 1938 and February 28, 1942 | June 15 - July 1, 1927 at the same time 6th civil senate or retirement | |
| 65 | Alfred Tittel (1870–1937) | before 1931 | July 1, 1934 | Transfer to the 5th criminal senate | |
| 66 | Fritz Hartung (1884–1973) | before 1931 or July 1, 1934 | July 15, 1933 and 1945 | Transfer to the 4th civil senate or retirement | |
| 67 | Otto Zoeller (1872–) | December 9, 1929 | July 1, 1937 | retirement | |
| 68 | Ferdinand Gerlach (1886–1941) | (Assistant judge July 1, 1930) | (before 1932 auxiliary judge) | Transfer to the 1st criminal senate | |
| 69 | Otto Müller (1878-) | November 1, 1931 | May 1, 1938 | Appointment as Senate President of the 4th Criminal Senate | |
| 70 | Edwin Louis Otto Baumgarten (1881-) | (Auxiliary judge 1932) | |||
| 71 | Erich Schultze (1880-1947) | January 1, 1933 | 1937 | Transfer to the 2nd civil senate | |
| 72 | Eugen Kamecke (1877-1946) | (Assistant judge February 4, 1932) September 1, 1933 | 1936 | Transfer to the 6th criminal senate | |
| 73 | Richard Oesterheld (1880–) | 1934 | 1936 | Transfer to the 7th civil senate | |
| 74 | Hermann Weinkauff (1894–1981) | (Assistant judge March 15, 1935) | (Assistant judge December 1, 1936) | Transfer to the 1st civil senate | |
| 75 | Karl Schörlin (1882–1955) | (Assistant judge September 15, 1937) | April 1, 1938 | Transfer to the 4th criminal senate | |
| 76 | Hans von Dohnanyi (1902–1945) | September 16, 1938 | November 30, 1941 | (Delegation to the Foreign Office / Defense 25 August 1939) or resignation | |
| 77 | Karl Scheurlen (1888–1945) | 1939 | after 1942 | 1945 without the Senate | |
| 78 | August Guth (1884–1945) | 1939 | 1940 | Transfer to the 4th criminal senate | |
| 79 | August Schäfer (1888–1984) | (May 16, 1938 auxiliary judge) May 1, 1939 | 1945 | President of the OLG Bamberg and member of the Bay. Constitutional Court | |
| 80 | Karl Pawelka (1890–1948) | September 1, 1939 | 1941 | Transfer to the 6th criminal senate | |
| 81 | Adolf Paul (1890-) | (Assistant judge 1940) April 1, 1941 | 1945 | ||
| 82 | Artur Köllensperger (1884-1946) | 1942 | 1945 in the 2nd civil senate | ||
| 83 | Max Denzler (1894-) | (Assistant judge 1945) |
literature
- Adolf Lobe : Fifty Years of the Reich Court on October 1, 1929 . Berlin 1929.
- Friedrich Karl Kaul : History of the Reichsgericht, Volume IV (1933-1945) . Berlin (GDR) 1971
- Klaus-Detlev Godau-Schüttke : The Federal Court of Justice - Justice in Germany . Berlin 2005
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung , vol. 1 (1896) p. 52.
- ↑ Business distribution plan of the Reichsgericht for 1931 . In: Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung , 1931, Sp. 143, 148.
- ^ Business distribution plan of the Reichsgericht for 1941 . In: Deutsche Justiz , 1941, pp. 107, 109 .
- ↑ Eugen Kamecke was born on May 5, 1877 in Danzig : Matriculation Book University of Rostock . Eugen Kamecke died on May 12, 1946 in the Soviet special camp No. 1 Mühlberg : Initiativgruppe Lager Mühlberg e. V. (Ed.): Book of the Dead - Special Camp No. 1 of the Soviet NKVD, Mühlberg / Elbe . Mühlberg / Elbe, 2008, p. 104, ISBN 978-3-00-026999-8
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