John Ulrich Schroeder

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John Ulrich Schroeder , also John-Ulrich Schroeder , (born August 6, 1876 Boizenburg / Elbe , † February 23, 1947 in Hellerau near Dresden ) was a German lawyer.

Life

Schroeder's grave in the Rähnitz cemetery

John Ulrich Schroeder was born in Boizenburg / Elbe and was the son of the lawyer Theodor Schroeder (1842 – after 1900). He studied law in Halle and did his doctorate there. During the First World War he was a naval judge in Hamburg and thus also responsible for high treason trials against sailors. During the Kiel sailors' uprising , he mediated between the parties in Cuxhaven and was able to prevent bloodshed as in Kiel. As a result, he developed a very critical attitude, was involved in the labor movement and was close to the USPD ; His nickname Sailor Schröder comes from this time . He wrote his experiences in the book Im Morgenlichte der Deutschen Revolution , published in 1921 . November experiences down on the Niederelbe .

During the Weimar Republic in 1922 he became a senior official in the Saxon Ministry of Justice. With the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933, he was removed from office and was given only a small pension. After the end of the war he was the first attorney general of Saxony until his death in 1947 .

Schroeder died in Hellerau in 1947 and received a state funeral in the Rähnitz cemetery . In Hellerau, the way to school , where the Schroeder family lived in house No. 27, was renamed Schroederstraße after it was incorporated into Dresden in 1950 . As part of the deletion of ideological street names from the communist era, the street was renamed Heinrich-Tessenow-Weg in 1993 - probably due to a lack of information about Schroeder . The namesake was the architect of the garden city Hellerau , Heinrich Tessenow .

literature

  • Hilde Benjamin (ed.): On the history of the administration of justice in the GDR 1945–1949 . P. 329, note 42.
  • Sebastian Merkel: John Ulrich Schroeder, military judge. In: Olaf Matthes / Ortwin Pelc : People in the Revolution. Hamburg portraits 1918/19. Husum Verlag, Husum 2018, ISBN 978-3-89876-947-1 , pp. 172-174.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Notation according to tombstone.
  2. ↑ Stephan Sehlke: The intellectual Boizenburg Education and educated in and out of the area Boizenburg from the 13th century to 1945 . ISBN 978-3-8448-0423-2 , pp. 391 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ a b Christian Pritzkow: How the Schroederstrasse got its name - and lost it again. (PDF; 808 kB) in: Mitteilungen für Hellerau , 68th edition, August 2006.
  4. ↑ Little fish - head off because of the blond Inge . In: Der Spiegel . No. 33 , 1949, pp. 10 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Schroeder, John Ulrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schroeder, John-Ulrich (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Boizenburg / Elbe
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1947
Place of death Hellerau near Dresden