Karl Mosler (lawyer)

Karl Mosler

Karl Mosler (born September 28, 1872 in Wetter , Westphalia , † May 3, 1946 in Bonn ) was a German lawyer . From 1921 to 1933 and from 1945 to 1946 he was President of the Bonn Regional Court .

Live and act

Karl Mosler was born in Wetter on the Ruhr in 1872. He studied law at the universities in Freiburg i. Br. , Berlin , Munich and Bonn ; In 1896 he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD . After that, Mosler started a career as a judge, initially as an assessor at the Cologne Regional Court. After holding positions in Elberfeld, Hennef and Bonn, he became a higher regional judge in Düsseldorf in 1914.

In 1921, still under the French occupation of the Rhineland, Karl Mosler was appointed President of the Bonn Regional Court. He initially held this office for twelve years.

After Hitler's “seizure of power”, Karl Mosler tried his best to defend the independence of the judiciary and to maintain the quality of the judiciary in his area of responsibility. However, in July 1933 he was forced to resign by the new rulers. It was not until the British military administration reinstated him in 1945, which he held until his death in 1946.

Karl Mosler was firmly rooted in Rhenish Catholicism . He was a member of the Catholic Civil Service Association and belonged to the Center Party from 1896 until its dissolution in 1933 by the National Socialists.

As an author, Mosler has repeatedly commented on questions of law and justice, especially in the Deutsche Richterzeitung . During his forced retirement he translated Dante Alighieri from Italian and in 1938 published the book “ Dante . An introduction to his world of ideas ”.

Mosler had two children with his wife Margarete Loenartz : their daughter Hedwig studied economics and married the later (1956–1969) Mayor of Bonn , Wilhelm Daniels ; the son Hermann Mosler became one of the leading German international lawyers. His grandson Hans Daniels also became Lord Mayor of Bonn, and another grandson, Karl Clemens Mosler, is known as a statistician and mathematician .

Individual evidence

↑ 150 years of the Bonn Regional Court (1850-2000) [1]
^ A Rhenish district court during the occupation. Records of District Court President Dr. Karl Mosler, Bonn (Regional Court District Bonn), State Archives NRW Rhineland Department, RW 0007 No. 34.
↑ Chapter “Dr. Karl Mosler ”in: Heiko Maas (ed.): Fearless lawyers - judges and public prosecutors against Nazi injustice. Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2017.
^ Karl Mosler: Dante . An introduction to his world of ideas. 139 pages, Bonifacius-Druckerei, 1938.
^ Felix Lange: Practice orientation and community conception. Hermann Mosler as a pioneer of West German international law after 1945. Springer, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-662-54217-0 .

personal data
SURNAME	Mosler, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and judge
DATE OF BIRTH	September 28, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH	Weather (Ruhr)
DATE OF DEATH	May 3, 1946
Place of death	Bonn

[1] 150 years of the Bonn Regional Court (1850-2000) [1]

[2] A Rhenish district court during the occupation. Records of District Court President Dr. Karl Mosler, Bonn (Regional Court District Bonn), State Archives NRW Rhineland Department, RW 0007 No. 34.

[3] Chapter “Dr. Karl Mosler ”in: Heiko Maas (ed.): Fearless lawyers - judges and public prosecutors against Nazi injustice. Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2017.

[4] Karl Mosler: Dante . An introduction to his world of ideas. 139 pages, Bonifacius-Druckerei, 1938.

[5] Felix Lange: Practice orientation and community conception. Hermann Mosler as a pioneer of West German international law after 1945. Springer, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-662-54217-0 .