Kurt Häntzschel

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Kurt Häntzschel (born July 13, 1889 in Berlin ; died January 10, 1941 in Rolândia , Brazil ) was a German administrative lawyer and press lawyer .

Life

Kurt Häntzschel was a son of Emil Häntzschel , professor at the Technical University of Charlottenburg . He attended the Joachimsthaler Gymnasium and began to study law and economics at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Universität Leipzig . After leaving the Corps Suevia Heidelberg as a fox , he became active in the Corps Lusatia Leipzig in the winter semester of 1908/09 . As an inactive he moved to the University of Grenoble , the University of Oxford and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . After the First State Exam on March 16, 1912 doctorate he on 24 July 1912 in Leipzig for Dr. iur. He completed his legal clerkship at the Supreme Court .

During the First World War he was initially a boat officer in the Voluntary Motorboat Corps in the Austrian-German Lake Constance flotilla . From April to October 1916 he fought on the Eastern Front (First World War) . He was then appointed to the War Committee for Oils and Fats GmbH and to the trade policy department of the Imperial Embassy in Stockholm .

After the assessor examination on March 31, 1919, he moved from the administration of justice to the internal administration of the Free State of Prussia . Since the end of 1919 government assessor in Berlin, in 1920 he managed the district office of the Bublitz district and the Jerichow district . In 1921 he became district administrator in the district of Jerichow II.

Berlin

Appointed to the Reich Ministry of the Interior , he was responsible for the press, radio and film. He was a founding member and, with Ernst Heilmann, secret capital owner and chairman of the supervisory board of Buch und Presse AG (later: Dradag), which wanted to politically control and shape the radio program that was just developing. In September 1925 he was replaced by Erich Scholz for political reasons in the Dradag. Häntzschel was the decisive broadcast lawyer for the early days of broadcasting . From 1929 he was also a lecturer in press law at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin and head of the legal department of the German Institute for Newspaper Studies there. In the International Union of Journalists he was chairman of the press law commission. From 1929 he was head of the political department of the Ministry of the Interior and chairman of the committee for press law reform, whose work was stopped in 1932. Häntzschel was a member of the German Democratic Party (DDP) and was elected to the party committee between 1925 and 1930. He was a member of the German Society in 1914 and the International Association for Legal and Economic Philosophy .

Häntzschel recognized the danger of National Socialism and created memoranda in the Reich Ministry of the Interior that proved the unconstitutionality of the NSDAP . When Häntzschel wanted to act as an appraiser for the Reich Ministry of the Interior at the Ulm Reichswehr trial , this was thwarted by Reich Justice Minister Johann Viktor Bredt and Reich Chancellor Heinrich Brüning .

With the Prussian strike and the formation of the Papen cabinet , Häntzschel was relieved of his functions for political reasons in 1932. After the victory of the NSDAP in the Reichstag election in March 1933 , he was dismissed in accordance with the law for the restoration of the civil service . He was still a trustee at Mosse-Verlag , but was expelled from this position and briefly imprisoned.

In 1935 he went to Vienna for the Neue Wiener Journal and was expatriated with his wife and three children in Germany under the law on the revocation of naturalizations and the revocation of German citizenship . On November 30, 1938, his doctorate was revoked. On June 11, 1935, his German citizenship was revoked. He and his family were granted Austrian citizenship .

emigration

In 1937 he also emigrated from the corporate state of Austria and bought a fazenda in the German-Brazilian Rolândia in the Brazilian state of Paraná . With his brother he got into economic difficulties there. Both were shot dead at a gathering of their farm workers in 1941.

meaning

Häntzschel dealt with the emergency ordinances and the association of the fighting godless . His publications on press law were still used in the 1970s by the Federal Constitutional Court and the highest federal courts when reaching a verdict. His criticism of Article 118 of the Weimar Constitution led to the formulation of freedom of expression in Article 5 of the Basic Law in the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany , which now also includes freedom of the press .

Fonts (selection)

  • The political emergency ordinances for the protection of the people and the state of February 28, 1933, against betrayal of the German people and treasonous activities of February 28, 1933, for the protection of the German people of February 4, 1933, and for the maintenance of internal peace of December 19, 1932 , on the dissolution of the communist godless organizations of May 3, 1932, with the implementing regulations of the Reich and the states . Berlin: Stilke, 1933
  • Boris Sergeevič Mirkin-Gecevič: The Soviet Russian press law . 1931
  • Law for the Protection of the Republic (Reich Law of March 25, 1930 - RGBl. I p. 91): with the implementing provisions of the Reich and the states; with special consideration of case law . 1930
  • Copyright, including publishing, press, theater, film and radio law . 1928
  • German press law . Berlin: G. Stilke, 1928
  • Reich Press Act and the other press regulations of the Reich and the Länder . Carl Heymanns Verlag , Berlin 1927
  • The editor in charge . 1927

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Emil Häntzschel in the DNB
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 93 , 789
  3. ↑ a b Häntzschel's personal files in the Corps Lusatia archive
  4. ↑ Dissertation: Airspace and Real Estate
  5. ↑ Erich Scholz in the DNB
  6. ↑ a b c d Jürgen Wilke: In the service of press freedom and broadcasting regulations , 1989, pp. 8, 10, 25
  7. ↑ Peter Bucher: The Reichwehr process. The high treason trial of the Ulm Reichswehr officers 1929/30 , Boldt, Boppard 1967 p. 83
  8. ↑ Thomas Henne (Ed.): The withdrawal of doctoral degrees from the law faculty of the University of Leipzig 1933–1945 , p. 113
  9. ↑ Michael Hepp (Ed.): The expatriation of German citizens 1933-1945 according to the lists published in the Reichsanzeiger. 1. Lists in chronological order , Munich: Saur 1985, p. 5. In the same list, the names of Bertolt Brecht , Erika Mann , Erich Ollenhauer and others appear among the 38 people . v. a. m.
  10. ^ Dieter Marc Schneider: Johannes Schauff (1902–1990). Migration and “Stabilitas” in the age of totalitarianism. Oldenbourg, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-486-56558-3 . P. 82

literature

  • Michelle Potier: Dr. Kurt Emil Richard Häntzschel , in: Thomas Henne (Hrsg.): The withdrawal of doctoral degrees from the law faculty of the University of Leipzig 1933–1945 . Leipziger Universitätsverlag 2007, pp. 93–95.
  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): Biographical Handbook of German-Speaking Emigration after 1933 , Vol. 1. KG Saur Verlag , Munich 1980, p. 262.
  • Jürgen Wilke : In the service of freedom of the press and broadcasting regulations , in: Publizistik 34 (1989), pp. 7–28.
  • Jürgen Wilke: Bibliography Kurt Häntzschel , in: Publizistik 34 (1989), pp. 190–194.
  • Michael Buddrus , Sigrid Fritzlar: State governments and ministers in Mecklenburg 1871-1952 . A biographical lexicon. 1st edition. Edition Temmen , Bremen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8378-4044-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Häntzschel, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Häntzschel, Kurt Emil Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1941
Place of death Rolândia , Brazil