Ludwig Ritterspacher

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Ludwig Ritterspacher (born March 10, 1883 in Waldmohr ; † April 23, 1964 in Zweibrücken ) was a German lawyer and politician ( CDU ).

Life and work

Ritterspacher is the son of the farmer Karl Ritterspacher and his wife Maria, b. Chisel. After graduating from high school in Zweibrücken, he studied law at the universities in Munich and Berlin from 1901 to 1904 . He completed his legal preparatory service from 1905 to 1908, passed the second state examination in law in 1908 and was employed by the public prosecutor in Landau a year later . From 1909 to 1911 he was an assessor in Diedenhofen . He was then admitted to the bar. In 1911/12 he worked as a lawyer in Waldmohr, from 1912 to 1916 as a district attorney in Bergzabern , from 1916 to 1925 as a district judge in Pirmasens and since 1925 as a district judge in Frankenthal . On May 15, 1919, he married the Palatine dialect poet Else Hene in Pirmasens, who was born in Pirmasens on January 27, 1898 and died on April 22, 1952 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse. The marriage remained childless. The National Socialists wanted to dismiss Ritterspacher from the judicial service as "politically unreliable". But the attempt failed. In 1937 he was dismissed from the civil service because of his Jewish wife as " Jewish verippt ". He then worked as an insurance agent in Frankfurt am Main until 1939 . From 1940 he was a legal clerk at a company in Munich.

Ritterspacher was appointed president of the regional court in Zweibrücken in 1945 and had been the presidential director and head of the Hesse-Palatinate justice administration since January 1, 1946 . From April 1, 1947 to June 30, 1949, he was President of the Higher Regional Court in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse . His second marriage was to the widow Hedwig Hess.

Political party

Stumbling block for Ludwig Ritterspacher before the Frankenthal regional court

Ritterspacher was chairman of the Democratic Party and a member of the city council in Frankenthal.

Ritterspacher joined the CDP after 1945 , which later became the regional association of the CDU Rhineland-Palatinate .

MP

Ritterspacher was a member of the Advisory State Assembly of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1946/47 and chaired the Constitutional Committee there. He was a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament from 1947 to 1951.

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Theobald: Jewish fellow citizens in Frankenthal with Eppstein and Flomersheim from 1800 to 1940. Issued: January 2014
  2. ^ Obituary in the daily newspaper Die Rheinpfalz from April 24, 1964
  3. ^ Daily newspaper "Die Rheinpfalz" from March 10, 1953 (report on the 70th birthday)
personal data
SURNAME Ritterspacher, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Forest black
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1964
Place of death Zweibrücken