Kurt Sunday

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Kurt Sunday

Kurt Sonntag (born June 10, 1877 in Gotha , † July 8, 1938 ) was a German judge .

Life

He received his doctorate and was of the Protestant denomination. In 1898 he passed the first state examination with “sufficient”, the second in 1904 with “sufficient” and became an assessor in the same year. In 1907 he became a public prosecutor at the Frankfurt am Main public prosecutor's office. In 1912 he moved to the Bonn Public Prosecutor's Office. During the court holidays in 1916 he was the public prosecutor's representative in Koblenz for a month. In March 1918 he was promoted to the Public Prosecutor's Office. In 1919 he was again deputy public prosecutor for a month and a half, from July to mid-August. In March 1920 he was the senior public prosecutor's representative in Cologne. In December 1921 he was appointed regional court director at the Cologne regional court . From 1924 he was also a local judge at the Cologne District Court . At the beginning of February 1930 he was appointed to the Reichsgericht. He was employed in the 4th Criminal Senate. Sunday is sometimes assumed to be of Jewish origin, but this is probably not the case. He left the Reichsgericht in April 1933, but for health reasons that had existed for some time before the seizure of power. In 1901 he married Else Eltzbacher (1880–). One son was the painter Hans Joachim Sonntag, married to Olga Sonntag .

literature

  • Friedrich Karl Kaul , History of the Reichsgericht, Volume IV (1933–1945), East Berlin 1971, p. 293.

Individual evidence

  1. Hubert Lang: Between all chairs - lawyers of Jewish origin in Leipzig . Leipzig 2014, p. 63, note 228 .
  2. BArch, R 3002/1681, 1 of 4, Bl. 38, 41