Karl Mannzen

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Karl Mannzen (born January 3, 1903 in Flensburg , † 1980 ) was a German lawyer , attorney general in Schleswig, federal judge at the Federal Court of Justice and State Secretary of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Justice.

Life

Karl Mannzen was born on January 3, 1903 in Flensburg as the son of a teacher. Both parents came from Schleswig-Holstein . From first marriage with Clara, b. Donat, have four children. After Clara's death in 1948 he married Therese, geb. Stangl, with whom he had two other children.

After graduating from the Reform Realgymnasium in Kiel in 1921 , he studied law and economics . In 1927 he received his diploma as an economist. In 1929 he was the first legal state examination and the following year received his doctorate he in Kiel with the dissertation Soviet Union and international law to Dr. jur. After successfully passing the assessor examination , Karl Mannzen worked in the judiciary from 1933 onwards.

Karl Mannzen, together with his brother Walter and August Rathmann, was the founder of the Socialist Student Union in Kiel.

Public offices

Mannzen, who was a member of the SPD from 1926 to 1933 , joined the SA in November 1933 and submitted applications for membership in the NSDAP in 1937 and 1939 , the second of which was successful on January 1, 1940 (membership number: 7,786,521). He served as a district judge first in Ludwigshafen am Rhein from 1938 to 1939, then in Bruck an der Mur in Austria, and from 1947 to 1949 in Bredstedt in Schleswig . After serving as a higher regional judge in the Ministry of Justice in Kiel from 1949 to 1950 , he served as attorney general at the Schleswig-Holstein Higher Regional Court in Schleswig from 1950 to 1954 . Mannzen's appeal had already been discussed when the Federal Court of Justice was founded in Karlsruhe , but this failed because of Mannzen's Nazi past. In 1954 he was finally appointed a federal judge, which he remained until 1961. In the State Security Senate of the Federal Court of Justice, he worked, among other things, on convictions for membership in the KPD-affiliated associations, the Working Group of Democratic Jurists (ADJ) and Central Council for the Protection of Democratic Rights and the Defense of German Patriots (ZR), as well as the conviction of the former President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , Otto John , with for treason. From January 16, 1961 to January 31, 1968, he was State Secretary of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Justice .

Honors

Fonts

  • Soviet Union and International Law: The Issues of Recognition of Debt, Foreign Propaganda, and Foreign Trade Monopoly. Berlin 1932.
  • The state statutes for Schleswig-Holstein. Public Law Yearbook. Tuebingen 1957.

Secondary literature

  • Klaus Schäfer, The Trial of Otto John . A contribution to the judicial history of the early Federal Republic, Tectum: Marburg, 2009 [at the same time Diss. Uni Frankfurt am Main, 2009], 173 - 175 ( retro-digitized version )
  • Ulf Gutfleisch, State Protection Criminal Law in the Federal Republic of Germany 1951-1968 , BWV: Berlin, 2014, 341 - 342 ( retro-digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Karl Mannzen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dataset of the dissertation on d-nb.info (as of July 22, 2020).
  2. ^ A b c Klaus Schäfer, The trial against Otto John . A contribution to the history of justice in the early Federal Republic, Tectum: Marburg, 2009 [also Diss. Uni Frankfurt am Main, 2009], p. 173.
  3. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 390.
  4. ^ Hans Kluth, The KPD in the Federal Republic . Your political activities and organization from 1945 - 1956, West German publisher: Köln / Opladen, 1959, 131 f. ( Retro digitized version )
  5. ↑ https://www.jurion.de/urteile/bgh/1958-05-20/1-ste-7_57/ .
personal data
SURNAME Mannzen, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Flensburg
DATE OF DEATH 1980