Karl Borrmann

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Karl Borrmann (born April 9, 1914 in Magdeburg ) was a German lawyer . From 1952 to 1979 he was President of the Lower Saxony State Labor Court in Hanover.

Professional career

After graduating from high school in 1933 and completing a voluntary half-year at the "Horst Wessel-Lager" in Neckarsulm, Borrmann began studying law in Halle, Berlin and Marburg in the winter semester of 1933, which he completed in 1937 with the first state examination. He was then a faculty assistant at the Philipps University of Marburg until 1941 and received his doctorate in 1940 under Prof. Erich Schwinge with a dissertation on war criminal law. He was retired from the Wehrmacht after two months of service in 1938 and 1939. From 1939 to 1942 he was also a trainee lawyer and passed the second state law examination in August 1942. After a brief activity as a lawyer assistant in Gdansk, he was appointed court assessor in the district of the OLG Wroclaw in April 1943, but at the same time he was on leave from this office to write a habilitation thesis on "The administrative law of the husband" and was employed as an assistant at the University of Wroclaw. According to Prof. Felgentraeger, the draft of the habilitation thesis was finished in 1945, but was lost while trying to escape.

After the end of the war Borrmann was first public prosecutor and then probate judge at the Halberstadt District Court from September 1945 to April 1946 , but was dismissed after the hiring of people's judges in the Soviet occupation zone .

In June 1948 he was appointed to the Schleswig-Holstein regional labor court in Kiel, initially as a regional labor court counselor, and from December 1949 as the regional labor court director. From February 1949 to October 1950 he represented the President of the State Labor Court who was delegated to the Ministry of Social Affairs. In October 1952 he was appointed the first President of the Lower Saxony State Labor Court - an office he held until his retirement in April 1979.

In addition to his main office, he was a member of the Lower Saxony State Court of Justice from 1957 , first as a deputy member, from 1964 as a full member and from 1976 as the deputy president. In September 1968 he was appointed honorary professor at the Technical University of Hanover. He was also repeatedly active as a mediator or head of conciliation bodies in conflicts between the parties to the collective bargaining agreement.

NS exposure

According to an affidavit from Fritz Borinski, Borrmann was a member of the Leuchtenburg district he headed from 1932 to 1934, a community of young people who came from the youth movement and saw their task in actively campaigning for a socialist social order, and thus as a student and Student actively participated in the opposition work against National Socialism. In Berlin he allegedly had access to resistance circles around the lawyer Georg Thierkopf. On the other hand, he had been a member of the Hitler Youth since the winter of 1933/1934, most recently as Oberscharführer and head of the office for border and foreign countries and later head of the legal office and support leader in the Bann Marburg. He became a member of the NSDAP in 1937 and was block leader in 1940/41. In the denazification process, he claimed that the activity in the Hitler Youth and in the NSDAP served as camouflage. The Denazification Committee in 1947 believed him and the affidavits he had made and, given his "proven acts of resistance", classified him in Category V "Nominal Nazi Supporter". In view of his dissertation, which was concealed after 1945, it can be doubted whether this assessment was justified. There he took over the national-right point of view from the Munich stab process from 1925, made in accordance with his supervisor Erich Schwinge rules of military justice that prevented a quick and severe punishment responsible for the coup in 1918 and promoted corresponding changes in the War criminal law. In the preface to the printed version of his dissertation, he stated that "many of the facilities for modern war criminal proceedings that were considered necessary in this work as a result of the following investigations are also included in the War Penal Procedure Code " of August 17, 1938 (published shortly before the start of the war in 1939) . This War Criminal Procedure Code , together with the War Criminal Procedure Code that was issued at the same time, formed the basis for the excessive use of the death penalty by German martial law.

Political activity after 1945

In 1958 Borrmann was a member of the Legal Policy Committee of the SPD's executive committee and headed an ad hoc working group to standardize labor law.

Honors

Publications

  • Karl Borrmann. To redesign the criminal war proceedings. Düsseldorf 1940 (Diss. Marburg).
  • Karl Borrmann, Exclusion of the Realization of Collective Rights, in: Der Betriebs -berat 1951, p. 1011.
  • Karl Borrmann, The labor courts in Lower Saxony, in: New archive for Lower Saxony 7 (1954), pp. 213-216.
  • Karl Borrmann, Commentary on the Federal Holiday Act. Heidelberg 1963.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personnel files of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Social Affairs, the Reich Ministry of Justice and the Schleswig-Holstein Ministry of Social Affairs, Lower Saxony State Archives, Hanover (NLA HA) Nds. 300 Acc. 2008/100 No. 2 and No. 7.
  2. ↑ NLA HA Nds. 300 Acc. 2008/100 No. 2.
  3. ↑ Werner Kind-Krüger, The institutional and personal reconstruction of the Lower Saxony labor jurisdiction after the Second World War, in: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 89 (2017) , p. 184.
  4. ↑ Werner Kind-Krüger, The Reconstruction of Labor Jurisdiction in Schleswig-Holstein after 1945, in: Demokratische Geschichte 30, (2019), p. 208.
  5. ^ Karl Borrmann, On the redesign of the war criminal procedure, Düsseldorf 1940.
  6. ^ Yearbook of the Social Democratic Party of Germany 1958/59. Pp. 251 and 474.
  7. ↑ Federal Gazette of 19 July 1979
personal data
SURNAME Borrmann, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg