Martin Jonas

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Martin Jonas (born November 8, 1884 in Stettin , † April 14, 1945 in Leipzig by suicide ) was President of the Senate at the Imperial Court .

Life

He was the son of a high school professor and a Protestant. He passed the first state examination in 1906 (“distinction”), the second in 1912 (“good”). In the same year he became an assessor at the district court of Ueckermünde . Then in 1912 he became an unskilled worker in the Reich Ministry of Justice . When the war broke out in 1914, he became a district judge at the Halle / Saale district court . During the war he was first lieutenant in the reserve and battalion leader. He quickly made a career in the Weimar Republic . In 1919 he became a district judge at District Court III Berlin . In May 1920 he was again an unskilled worker in the Reich Ministry of Justice. In 1923 he was appointed to the Chamber Court Councilor, in 1923 to the Upper Government Council, and in 1924 to the Ministerial Councilor in the Reich Ministry of Justice. In the ministry, he was in charge of Section 8, Department IV (Civil Law and Administration of Justice), which was responsible for questions relating to civil proceedings. He gained a good reputation in the civil procedural law reforms of the time, so that in 1925 he took over Stein's respected commentary and worked on it until 1943. The "Stein / Jonas" was only called "Jonas" after 1933 because Stein had Jewish ancestors. During the regime, he became President of the Senate at the Reichsgericht in May 1938 at the suggestion of State Secretary Schlegelberger and began his service in the 4th Civil Senate in July. He is considered a racist, National Socialist and compliant executor of the regime, as he paid homage to the National Socialists in his legal treatises and the 4th Civil Senate was considered to be hasty in dealing with the wishes of the Ministry of Justice. He died by suicide on April 14, 1945. Max Friedlaender , Jewish board member of the German Lawyers' Association, remembers the person in 1939:

"Ministerialrat Dr. Jonas, who [sc. the ZPO commentary Stein / Jonas ] [...] continued and in an appreciably conscientious manner [...] is the same man (who, incidentally, still dedicated the latest edition of his commentary on the code of civil procedure to me in 1934) [who] was in 1935 or published an article in 1936 in which he accused the "Jewish" legal profession of having ethically brought down the legal profession [...]. "

Memberships

  • 1933 NSRB , RPV ,
  • 1934 NSV
  • January 1, 1937 Supporting member of the NSFK
  • January 1, 1940 Member of the NSDAP No. 7934 784

Honors

literature

  • Friedrich Karl Kaul , History of the Reichsgericht, Volume IV (1933–1945), East Berlin 1971.
  • Klaus-Detlev Godau-Schüttke : The Federal Court of Justice - Justice in Germany -, Berlin 2005, p. 76ff.
  • Kathrin Nahmmacher: The jurisprudence of the Reichsgericht and the Hamburg courts on the grounds for divorce under § 55 of the EheG 1938 in the years 1938 to 1945, (European university publications: series 2, jurisprudence; Volume 2604) Frankfurt am Main 1999, p. 89f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Friedlaender: The memoirs of the lawyer Max Friedlaender , at the Federal Bar Association , p. 49 and 125.
personal data
SURNAME Jonas, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Senate President at the Reichsgericht
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1945
Place of death Leipzig