Kurt Delitzsch

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Kurt Delitzsch (born September 27, 1885 in Leipzig , † 1945 ) was a German lawyer. At the time of National Socialism , Delitzsch was President of the Higher Regional Court in Kassel .

biography

Kurt Delitzsch was a son of the Assyriologist and university professor Friedrich Delitzsch . He had three brothers and two sisters.

He attended the König-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Breslau and the Bismarck-Gymnasium in Berlin. After graduating from high school, he studied philosophy and law at the University of Munich . He then continued his studies at the University of Berlin , where on March 22, 1909, he passed the first state examination with the grade “good”. On July 8, 1912, he was the University of Göttingen to Dr. jur. PhD . After his legal clerkship, he passed the Grand State Examination on February 2, 1914 with the grade “good”. He joined the judiciary in 1914 as an assessor .

In the First World War he served as a volunteer from January 1915. November 1916 he became a lieutenant in the field artillery regiment 38. He was awarded the EK 2 and EK 1 as well as the Front Fighter Honor Cross.

On January 21, 1919, he married Hertha Harkort, the daughter of the manufacturer Hermann Harkort. The couple had two daughters.

From 1918 he was a judge at the Bad Schwalbach District Court , in 1925 he moved to the post of Director at the Wiesbaden District Court and from there in 1929 as Director at the Kassel District Court . Delitzsch, who joined the Association of National Socialist German Jurists (BNSDJ) and the NSDAP in 1932 (he was briefly a DNVP member from 1928 to 1929 ), was President of the Higher Regional Court in Kassel from May 29, 1933 until the end of the war in spring 1945 . He was also head of the site of the Nazi legal guardian association . He committed 1945 suicide .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Enno Littmann:  Delitzsch, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 582 ( digitized version ).
  2. ^ The protocols of the Prussian State Ministry 1817-1934 / 38 : Volume 12, April 4, 1925 to May 10, 1938 / edit. by Reinhold Zilch, with the assistance of Bärbel Holtz. Acta Borussica, New Series / ed. from the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (formerly Prussian Academy of Sciences)., Volume 2, Olms-Weidmann, 2004, p. 547
  3. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 104