Leo Brandenburg

Leo Brandenburg (born June 21, 1895 in Sterkrade ; † March 2, 1946 in special camp No. 1 Mühlberg ) was a German judge .

Life

He graduated from the Realgymnasium Sterkrade in 1913. Then he studied law in Bonn , Münster and Munich . In Bonn he became a member of the KDStV Bavaria Bonn , in Munich the KDStV Burgundia in the CV. He received his doctorate in 1919 . At the First World War, he did not participate. In 1921 he became a court assessor in the Weimar Republic . In 1923 he was appointed regional judge in Duisburg-Hamborn and worked in the Ministry of Justice. In 1928 he became deputy authorized representative of the Reichsrat . After the transfer of power to the NSDAP , he joined the NSDAP in 1933 . In 1935 he was appointed senior judge first in Zweibrücken, then in Düsseldorf. In 1937 he came to the Reichsgericht . He worked in the 1st Civil Senate until 1945 . After the occupation of Leipzig by the Red Army , he was - like other Reich judges - arrested by the NKVD . He died in 1946 in the special camp in Mühlberg .

The Catholic Brandenburg was a cousin of Theodor Klauser and the father of the archaeologist Hugo Brandenburg and the sculptor Paul Brandenburg .

Fonts

Contracts for external services , dissertation Bonn 1919, Sterkrade 1919

literature

Klaus-Detlev Godau-Schüttke : "The Federal Court of Justice - Justice in Germany -" , Berlin 2005, p. 67ff.
Acta Borussica - New episode. 1st row: Jürgen Kocka , Wolfgang Neugebauer (ed.): The protocols of the Prussian State Ministry 1817–1934 / 38. : Reinhold Zilch, Bärbel Holtz: Volume 12, II: April 4, 1925 to May 10, 1938. Hildesheim et al. 2004, p. 532 ( PDF ).

Individual evidence

^ Initiative group Lager Mühlberg e. V. (Ed.): Book of the Dead - Special Camp No. 1 of the Soviet NKVD, Mühlberg / Elbe , Mühlberg / Elbe, 2008, p. 54, ISBN 978-3-00-026999-8
^ Norbert M. Borengässer: Correspondence between Theodor Klauser and Jan Hendrik Waszink 1945–1951. A historical contribution to the continuation of the RAC after World War II. In: Yearbook for Antiquity and Christianity . Vol. 40, Aschendorff Verlag , Münster 1997, p. 27.

personal data
SURNAME	Brandenburg, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Imperial Judge
DATE OF BIRTH	June 21, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sterkrade
DATE OF DEATH	March 2, 1946
Place of death	Special camp No. 1 Mühlberg

[1] Initiative group Lager Mühlberg e. V. (Ed.): Book of the Dead - Special Camp No. 1 of the Soviet NKVD, Mühlberg / Elbe , Mühlberg / Elbe, 2008, p. 54, ISBN 978-3-00-026999-8

[2] Norbert M. Borengässer: Correspondence between Theodor Klauser and Jan Hendrik Waszink 1945–1951. A historical contribution to the continuation of the RAC after World War II. In: Yearbook for Antiquity and Christianity . Vol. 40, Aschendorff Verlag , Münster 1997, p. 27.