Kurt Perels

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Kurt Ferdinand Lothar Perels (born March 9, 1878 in Berlin ; † September 10, 1933 in Hamburg ) was a Hamburg professor and judge at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court .

family

Perel's father was Ferdinand Perels (1836–1903), a Berlin lawyer who worked primarily in the naval administration. His younger brother was Ernst Perels . Friedrich Justus Perels was his nephew.

Life

Perels visited the Joachimsthalsche school in Berlin before moving to Kiel , Heidelberg and Berlin law studied. In 1900 he completed his doctorate in Berlin and completed his habilitation in 1903 with Albert Hänel in Kiel , where he taught as a private lecturer from 1903. In 1908 he was appointed associate professor at the University of Greifswald . In 1909 he was given a full professorship at the so-called general lecture system of the Hamburg Colonial Institute , from which parts of the University of Hamburg , in particular the Asia-Africa Institute , would later develop. When the University of Hamburg was founded in 1919, Perels held the chair for public law and became the first dean of the law faculty.

In 1922 Perels was also a part-time judge at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court and a member of the Hamburg Higher Administrative Court .

After the seizure of power by the National Socialists Perels resigned his judgeships. Due to anti-Semitic disturbances in his course by students, and since he had received a request to provide evidence of Aryan status, Perels chose suicide .

Stumbling stone in front of the main building of the University of Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1

In 1935 Ernst Forsthoff was appointed to the vacant chair by Perels.

Three stumbling blocks - in front of his house in Hamburg-Uhlenhorst , in front of the University of Hamburg and the Patriotic Society of 1765 - remind us of him.

Works (selection)

  • The general appeal privileges for Brandenburg-Prussia , 1908.
  • Hamburg laws with constitutional and administrative content , 1927.

source

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For more details, see the collections of the Humboldt University , which also contain a picture .
  2. ↑ Hans Peter Ipsen : Kurt Perels 1878-1933 in: Archives of Public Law 83 (4), pp. 374-379, 374.
  3. ↑ Marlis Roß: The Exclusion of Jewish Members 1935 , in: The Patriotic Society in National Socialism , p. 35.
  4. ^ Ines Oberling: Scholars from Jewish families at the University of Greifswald in the 19th century, in: Werner Buchholz : The University of Greifswald and the German university landscape in the 19th and 20th centuries. Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-515-08475-4 , p. 164
personal data
SURNAME Perels, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Perels, Kurt Ferdinand Lothar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and judge, university professor in Greifswald and Hamburg
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1933
Place of death Hamburg