Jacques Abraham

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Jacques Abraham (born September 10, 1880 in Berlin , † December 31, 1942 in Riga ) was a German lawyer, founder of the magazine for civil service law and victims of National Socialism .

Life

Abraham studied law at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin (now Humboldt University) and received his doctorate in Heidelberg in 1907 . He became a lawyer and later also a notary. Abraham was mainly active as a criminal defense attorney, but also specialized in civil service law. He belonged to the civil servants' committee of the German Democratic Party (which counted towards the so-called Weimar coalition ). In 1920 he drafted a new disciplinary law for the German Association of Officials. Abraham published brief practical comments. His lasting merit is in 1928 the establishment of the magazine for civil service law . This was renamed in 1936 to the magazine for civil servants and public officials and discontinued in 1943.

In the course of the National Socialist disenfranchisement and persecution of Germans of Jewish faith, Abraham lost the management of the ZBR and the notary's office in 1933, and finally in 1938 he was also admitted to the bar; his practice was Aryanized . Attempts to emigrate were unsuccessful. The Nazi regime deported Abraham and his wife to Riga in October 1942. There they were either shot on arrival or died in the concentration camp in 1942 .

Works (selection)

  • Disciplinary Act for Non-Judicial Officials: A draft and justification . Linden print shop, Berlin, 1920
  • Reich Ministerial Law . Carl Heymann, Berlin, 1930
  • The Prussian civil service penalty order (BDStO): law concerning the official offenses d. non-judicial officials dated July 21, 1852 as amended on January 27, 1932 . C. Heymann, Berlin, 1932
  • The Prussian service penalty regulations for civil servants and judges in the new version of August 18, 1934 . Pulvermacher, Berlin, 1935

literature

  • Hellmuth Günther: Dr Jacques Abraham. Civil service lawyer of the Weimar Republic . In: Zeitschrift für Beamtenrecht, 2005, pp. 221–244
  • Angelika Königseder: Law and National Socialist Rule: Berlin Lawyers 1933-1945: a research project by the Berliner Anwaltsverein eV Deutscher Anwaltverlag Gm, 2001, p. 204f

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1942 - Building Blocks for a History of the Association in National Socialism , Association for the History of Berlin, accessed on January 15, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Abraham, Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and founder of the journal for civil service law
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1942
Place of death Riga