Karl Schneidewin

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Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm Karl Schneidewin (born May 1, 1887 in Hameln , † January 31, 1964 in Cologne ) was a German lawyer.

Life

Schneidewin was born as the son of the theologian Max Schneidewin and Adolfine Koch. After attending grammar school in Hameln, which he graduated in 1905, he studied law from 1905 to 1908 at the universities of Freiburg, Berlin, Munich and Göttingen. He passed the first state law examination in 1908 ("good") and the second state examination in 1913 ("sufficient"). In 1910 he received his doctorate under Victor Ehrenberg . From 1913 he worked as a court assessor.

After his participation in the First World War , he took over a post as a public prosecutor in Berlin III in June 1920. In 1921 he was promoted to the public prosecutor's office and handed over to the Reich attorney's office as an unskilled worker . He was the youngest laborer to date. In 1923 he became first public prosecutor and in 1925 senior public prosecutor. In February 1930 he became a lawyer himself. In the same month he represented the indictment before the Second Criminal Division of the Reich Court against George Grosz , who had been charged with his scandalous image of "Christ on the cross with a gas mask". The indictment was criticized by the Simplicissimus under the heading " Reich Attorney Schneidewins Normalchrist ".

Schneidewin is said to have stayed away from the regime after 1933. According to his Reich lawyer colleague Carl Kirchner, he is said to have rejected the request of the Reich Ministry of Justice to serve as a Reich judge against joining the party.

After the end of the Second World War, he first became senior public prosecutor in Leipzig. In 1946 he was appointed Attorney General at the Attorney General in Celle and in 1948 Attorney General at the Supreme Court for the British Zone (OGH). In 1951 he was appointed honorary professor at the University of Cologne , where he gave lectures on criminal and procedural law. The appointment took place after “ Ernst Wolff , the President of the Supreme Court, held an honorary professorship for civil law, Schneidewin appeared at the dean and asserted the same dignity as his right. He didn't have to. Because he was an ornament at every place, at the university with his scientific work and excellent teaching . "( Gerhard Kegel )

He was co-editor from the fifth edition in 1928 of Stenglein's Commentary on the Criminal Laws of the German Reich.

Schneidewin wasn't married. He died in Cologne-Bayenthal in 1964 at the age of 76 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Death certificate no. 216 dated February 5, 1964, Cologne Old Town registry office. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved June 20, 2018 .
  2. ^ Gunnar Anger:  Schneidewin, Max (Paul Ernst Berthold) ,. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 25, Bautz, Nordhausen 2005, ISBN 3-88309-332-7 , Sp. 1298-1309.
  3. ↑ Jürgen Seul: The scandalous picture "Christ on the cross with gas mask" , Legal Tribune online from July 26, 2010, accessed on May 28, 2011.
  4. ↑ Simplicissimus 1930 (Volume 34), Issue 51 p. 619.
  5. ↑ Gerhard Kegel: “ Professors in Cologne and Bonn ” in: Association for the Promotion of Law (Ed.): Faculty Review Summer Semester 2009 (PDF; 273 kB)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically defective marked. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Pp. 31, 58f.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / jura-foerderverein.uni-koeln.de  
personal data
SURNAME Schneidewin, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schneidewin, Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamelin
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1964
Place of death Cologne