Karl Emil Meyer

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Karl Emil Meyer (born May 31, 1900 in Cologne , † August 5, 1967 in Karlsruhe ) was a German judge at the Federal Court of Justice .

Life

Karl Emil Meyer was the son of the Jewish businessman Siegfried Meyer (born 1871 in Neuwied; died 1938 in Cologne) and his wife Thekla (born 1876 in Trier; died 1941 in the Riga ghetto). Karl Emil Meyer did his Abitur in Cologne and studied law at the universities of Bonn , Jena and Cologne . He passed his legal traineeship exam in Cologne . After receiving his doctorate on July 25, 1924 at the University of Bonn , he became an assistant judge at the Bonn Regional Court in 1924 . In 1931 he became a district judge there. In 1932 he was promoted to the district judge . In April 1933 he was given leave of absence due to the Professional Civil Service Act and on November 1, 1933, he was retired without entitlement to a pension. This happened because of his family circumstances: Meyer converted from his parents' Judaism to Catholicism in the twenties. He then worked as a patent law consultant in industry. The memorandum on the reorganization of the German criminal law of Caritas came largely from him. For example, “ protective custody ” and “ euthanasia ” were openly rejected. After a chain of repression, including subpoenas to the Gestapo , he fled to London with his wife and son in 1939 . He returned to Germany after the end of the Second World War and from 1949 was the district court director in Cologne. Since July 1951 he was a German member of the Claims Tribunal in Herford . From March 21, 1952 until his retirement on October 31, 1964, he was a federal judge at the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe . He was a bearer of the Great Federal Cross of Merit .

Commemoration

On September 10, 2018 were from the Cologne artist Gunter Demnig of the family, in front of the former home Stammheimer Straße 13 in Köln-Riehl , stumbling blocks for Karl Emil Meyer, his sisters Klara Johanna (born 1903 in Cologne, Germany; died 1944. KZ Stutthof ), Hanna Ida (born 1904 in Cologne; died 1941 in the Riga ghetto ) and his mother Thekla (born 1876 in Trier; died 1941 in the Riga ghetto).

The stumbling blocks for Klara Johanna, Hanna Ida and Thekla Meyer, originally laid in front of the " Ghetto House" Sedanstraße 29 (Cologne-Neustadt-Nord) in 2001 and 2007, were broken out by strangers shortly after the installation and replaced by a pavement slab.

  • Stumbling block for Karl Emil Meyer

  • Stumbling blocks for the Meyer family

  • Former home of the Meyer family, Stammheimer Strasse 13, Cologne-Riehl

literature

  • Bundesrechtsanwaltskammer (Ed.): "Lawyer without Law - Fate of Jewish Lawyers in Germany after 1933", Berlin 2007, p. 280.
  • Klaus Luig : ... because he is not of Aryan descent. Jewish lawyers in Cologne during the Nazi era . 1st edition. Publishing house Dr. Schmidt KG, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-504-01012-6 , p. 294 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bundesarchiv.de: Entry in the memorial book Meyer, Meyer, Klara Johanna Claire , accessed on October 21, 2018
  2. ^ Bundesarchiv.de: entry in the memorial book Meyer, Hanna Ida , accessed on October 21, 2018
  3. ↑ bundesarchiv.de: entry in the memorial book Meyer, Thekla , accessed on October 21, 2018
  4. ↑ bild.de (from September 10, 2018): Stumbling blocks remind of the fate of this family , accessed on October 21, 2018
  5. ↑ rundschau-online.de (from September 10, 2018): "Ghettohaus": Stolen stumbling blocks will not be replaced , accessed on October 21, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Karl Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German judge at the Federal Court of Justice
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH 5th August 1967
Place of death Karlsruhe