Leopold Petri

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Martin Heinrich Herrmann Leopold Petri (born May 10, 1876 in Küstrin , † May 29, 1963 in Bremen ) was a German lawyer , judge and police chief in Bremen.

biography

Martin Heinrich Herrmann Leopold Petri was born as the son of the senior parish priest and later superintendent Moritz Leopold Petri and his wife Anna Christina geb. Donandt on May 10, 1876 in Küstrin . After attending school in Küstrin and Sorau , Petri studied law at the universities of Erlangen , Göttingen and Berlin from 1894 . In December 1898, at that time working as a trainee lawyer at the Higher Regional Court in Berlin, he received his doctorate . jur. at the law faculty of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg on the topic “History of the Placet according to purpose and legal structure. A contribution to the history of the Papal States law. "After a few years in the prosecutor's office in Lueneburg and magistrate in Bremerhaven was he from 1908 in Bremen at the police administration worked and was in 1912 as Councilor promoted to head of the criminal division of the police department. During the First World War he was wounded as a Russian prisoner of war in November 1914 and remained there in Siberia until 1919. After the First World War, he was appointed Police President of Bremen by a Social Democratic government under Mayor Karl Deichmann in 1919. Petri was politically German-national oriented and so he also led his office. He coped with his duties in difficult times. From 1928 Petri was a member of the Bremen church committee.

On February 22, 1933 he was appointed vice president of the newly elected church committee and on July 7, 1933 as church commissioner. Despite his conservative, but because of his loyal, attitude, he was immediately given leave of absence on March 8, 1933 when the National Socialists came to power , and Richard Markert ( NSDAP ) was appointed the new Bremen Police Senator by Reich Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick (NSDAP). The merchant and Nazi fanatic Theodor Laue (1893–1953) (NSDAP) took over the duties of police president on a provisional basis and on March 18, 1933 became senator for law, the police and the internal constitution. Petri was demoted to the District Court Council and transferred to Bremerhaven . In 1939 he retired as a judge.

From 1951, at the age of 75, Leopold Petri was in charge of rebuilding the Schwarzburgbund . In addition to his membership in the Uttenruthia (1894), he was also a member of other Schwarzburg connections, from 1896 in the Germania Göttingen fraternity and in 1899 a founding member of the Salingia Berlin fraternity .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Goebel (ed.): Directory of members of the Schwarzburgbund. 8th edition, Frankfurt am Main 1930, p. 115 No. 2344.
personal data
SURNAME Petri, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, police chief in Bremen
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Küstrin
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1963
Place of death Bremen