Kurt Zweigert

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Kurt Zweigert (born August 18, 1886 in Guben , † February 26, 1967 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer . In 1951 he was a judge at the Federal Court of Justice , from 1951 to 1952 at the First Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court and from 1952 as President of the Higher Administrative Court in Berlin .

Life

Zweigert was born in Guben in 1886 as the son of the later mayor of Essen , Erich Zweigert . His brother Erich Zweigert was later Minister of State in the Reich Ministry of the Interior. Kurt Zweigert attended the humanistic Thomas School in Leipzig until 1906 . He then studied law at the universities in Freiburg , Leipzig and Göttingen . He was promoted to Dr. jur. he did his doctorate and took his exams in Celle in 1913 . From 1914 to 1916 he worked for a lawyer at the Reich Court in Leipzig. From 1916 to 1918 he was a district judge in Poland . In 1919 he came to the Reich Arbitration Court for War Economics in Berlin and in 1920 to the Reich Economic Court , most recently as President of the Senate. In 1942 he was retired by the National Socialists . He worked as a lawyer in Berlin until the end of the war in 1945 .

In 1946 he was appointed to the Administrative Court Council and in 1948 he was appointed Vice President of the Administrative Court in Berlin . In 1951 he became President of the Senate at the Higher Administrative Court in Berlin . He was then a judge at the Federal Court of Justice until he was elected by the Bundestag on September 13, 1951 , when he became a judge at the Federal Constitutional Court . There he was a member of the First Senate until he left on February 14, 1952 after being elected President of the OVG Berlin. His successor as Federal Constitutional Judge was Karl Heck in 1954 .

Works (selection)

  • The new cartel law , Heymann, Cologne 1951.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard Sachse, Karl Ramshorn, Reinhart Herz: The teachers of the Thomasschule in Leipzig 1832-1912. The high school graduates of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1845–1912 . BG Teubner Verlag, Leipzig 1912, p. 114.
  2. ↑ Das BVerfG, 2nd edition 1971, p. 254.
personal data
SURNAME Zweigert, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and federal judge
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Guben
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1967
Place of death Berlin