Karl Scheurlen (lawyer)

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Karl Scheurlen (* 7. December 1888 in Ravensburg , † 2. January 1945 ) was a German lawyer, judge and Reichsgerichtsrat .

Life

He passed the legal state exams in 1912 and 1919 with "distinction". During the First World War he served as a first lieutenant in the reserve. April 1919 was appointed court assessor. In July 1921 he became an unskilled worker in the Württemberg Ministry of Justice. A year later he became a public prosecutor at the Stuttgart regional court and then Heilbronn . At the beginning of 1925 he became an unskilled worker with the Reich Attorney General . In September 1928 he returned to the Württemberg Ministry of Justice as a member of the government . On the New Year of 1929 he came to the Reich Ministry of Justice as an unskilled worker . At the end of 1929 he was promoted to the Upper Government Council. In October 1930 he was again an unskilled worker with the Reich Attorney General. On April 29, 1933, he was appointed higher regional judge and on May 11, he joined the Reichsgericht as an assistant . On April 1, 1935 he was appointed Reich judge. He was in the III. and IV. Criminal Senate. In 1936 he was a first lieutenant in the Wehrmacht . In 1939 he was promoted to captain and in 1942 to major.

Party affiliation

  • 1919–1924 member of the DNVP

Honors

source

  • Friedrich Karl Kaul , History of the Reichsgericht, Volume IV (1933–1945), East Berlin 1971, p. 289.