Karl Schörlin

Karl Schörlin (born January 20, 1882 in Durlach , Grand Duchy of Baden , † April 19, 1955 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse ) was a German judge.

Life

The father was a postmaster. Karl Schoerlin was Protestant. He began to study law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1901 he became active in the Corps Transrhenania . As an inactive , he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . He passed the law university exam in 1906. As a legal intern he came to Wertheim , Konstanz , Heidelberg and Schwetzingen . After the state bankruptcy (1910) he was a court assessor in Wertheim and Sinsheim . In 1912 he was appointed acting magistrate in Radolfzell , Stockach , Mühlheim am Bach , Lörrach and Pforzheim , and in 1913 head of the district court in Schopfheim . In 1914 he came to Pforzheim as an assistant public prosecutor and in 1920 to Mannheim , where he was appointed regional judge and examining magistrate in the same year . In 1933 he became district court director. From 1933 to 1935 he was a city councilor in Mannheim. During the suspension of his corps in the time of National Socialism , he was a member of the old comradeship "von der Pfordten".

On September 15, 1937 he came as an assistant judge in the III. Criminal Senate of the Reich Court . Against his appointment to the Reich Judicial Council on April 1, 1938 "doubts about the real National Socialist sentiments" arose because he was a member of the liar-like Mannheim gentlemen's club "Räuberhöhle". He was wounded in the air raid on Leipzig on December 4, 1943. In 1945 he was in the 4th Criminal Senate of the Reich Court . After the end of the war he returned to Wertheim and worked there as a lawyer in his brother-in-law's office. He died after a long sick bed in the hospital in Neustadt. He was buried in the family grave in Wertheim.

Memberships

December 1918 to April 1933 member of the German People's Party
May 1, 1933 Member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party ( No. 3,464,658)

Awards

Bavarian War Merit Cross
Prussian War Merit Cross

literature

Friedrich Karl Kaul , History of the Reichsgericht, Volume IV (1933–1945), East Berlin 1971, pp. 290f.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Obituary by Alwen, Transrhenania No. 9, October 1955
↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 115 , 185
^ Address book of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität in Heidelberg for the summer half year 1903, Heidelberg 1903, p. 49 .
↑ Herbert Hoffmann: In lockstep into dictatorship? The National Socialist seizure of power in Heidelberg and Mannheim, 1930 to 1935. Frankfurt a. M. 1985, p. 247.
↑ Helmut Heiber , Peter Longerich : files of the party chancellery of the NSDAP / 1,1: Regesten 1, Munich a. a. 1983, p. 198.
↑ Hans P. Glöckner: The dissolution of the Reichsgericht in the mirror of the archival tradition. In: Friedrich Battenberg , Filippo Ranieri (ed.): History of central justice in Central Europe. Festschrift for Bernhard Diestelkamp . Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 1994, p. 434.

personal data
SURNAME	Schörlin, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Imperial Judge
DATE OF BIRTH	January 20, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH	Durlach
DATE OF DEATH	April 19, 1955
Place of death	Neustadt an der Weinstrasse

[TR9-1] Obituary by Alwen, Transrhenania No. 9, October 1955

[2] Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 115 , 185

[3] Address book of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität in Heidelberg for the summer half year 1903, Heidelberg 1903, p. 49 .

[4] Herbert Hoffmann: In lockstep into dictatorship? The National Socialist seizure of power in Heidelberg and Mannheim, 1930 to 1935. Frankfurt a. M. 1985, p. 247.

[5] Helmut Heiber , Peter Longerich : files of the party chancellery of the NSDAP / 1,1: Regesten 1, Munich a. a. 1983, p. 198.

[6] Hans P. Glöckner: The dissolution of the Reichsgericht in the mirror of the archival tradition. In: Friedrich Battenberg , Filippo Ranieri (ed.): History of central justice in Central Europe. Festschrift for Bernhard Diestelkamp . Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 1994, p. 434.