Leopold Adams

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Leopold Adams (born March 16, 1902 in Nasingen , Eifel ; † November 24, 1997 ) was a German lawyer.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1921, Leopold Adams studied law and political science at the universities of Bonn and Marburg in Saarlouis . In 1924 he passed the first state examination in law at the Cologne Higher Regional Court and in 1929 the second state examination in Berlin. In 1929 he was with the work of the assault on the official draft General German Criminal Code at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn to Dr. iur. PhD.

In 1939 he was employed as a civil judge at the Landau regional court in the Palatinate .

Adams was a public prosecutor at the Saarbrücken regional court after the Second World War , and later attorney general at the Saarland Higher Regional Court . He held a lectureship in criminal procedural law at the Saarland University .

In 1957 Adams was proposed by the Federal Minister of Justice as head of the Franco-German mixed court.

In 1966 Leopold Adams was appointed Knight of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem by Cardinal Grand Master Eugène Cardinal Tisserant and invested in the Augsburg Cathedral on December 3, 1966 by Lorenz Cardinal Jaeger , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy .

Since 1921 he was a member of the Catholic student union KDStV Ascania Bonn in the CV and later joined the KDStV Carolus Magnus zu Saarbrücken in the CV.

swell

  • The Federal Republic of 1960, p. 16
  • Paperback of Public Life 1966, Volumes 16-17, p. 99
  • Who is Who ?: The German Who's Who 1967, Volume 15, p. 5

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eckhart G. Franz:  Ministry of Justice Personnel Affairs  (= Repertories Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt ) inventory G 21 B; S. 3, No. 1524 (PDF; 981 kB)  Archive Information System Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen), as of August 2007, accessed on September 22, 2016.
  2. ↑ 181. Cabinet meeting on May 7, 1957 , Federal Archives, accessed on October 12, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Adams, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and public prosecutor
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Nasingen , Eifel
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1997