Norbert Gürke

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Norbert Gürke (born March 14, 1904 in Graz ; † June 29, 1941 in Vienna ) was an international lawyer who taught at the universities of Munich and Vienna during the Nazi era and was SS-Sturmbannführer .

Life

Gürke was born in Graz as the son of an engineer.

In 1921 he became a member of the Austrian Wandering Bird in Vienna . After he had belonged to the “German University Guild Academic Freischar” in the German Academic Guild (DAG) from 1924 , he was one of the founders of the “Gilde Greif zu Wien” in the DAG in 1926. In 1929 he joined the German Freischar , in which the Gau leader of the Gau was Austria.

education

After graduating from high school in Vienna-Wieden in 1922, he studied mathematics and physics at the Technical University of Vienna until 1924 and then trained as an academic gymnastics and sports teacher. From 1926 to 1927 he studied political science at the universities of Vienna and Innsbruck. From 1927 he studied law at the University of Zurich , where he received his doctorate in 1929, 1930 or on February 10, 1932 under Fritz Fleiner .

Professional background

He then worked with Karl Gottfried Hugelmann in Vienna on the nationality law of old Austria.

After Gürke joined the NSDAP on October 1, 1930 , he worked there from October 1931 and May 1932 as a clerk for constitutional law and from December 1932 or 1933 as head of the legal policy department of the Ostland Vienna, NSDAP state management for Austria . He was also a founding member of the "Südostdeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft" in 1931 and at that time a member of the so-called clamping group .

In July 1933 Gürke, who was then expatriated from Austria on February 3, 1934, went to Munich and from October 1, 1933, he became Otto Koellreutter's assistant at the Institute for Politics and Public Law at the University of Munich , whose daughter Inge he married in September 1934 . and where he completed his habilitation in November 1935. In 1935 Gürke became a private lecturer in Breslau and in 1937 an associate professor at the University of Munich . With the winter semester of 1939, he changed, from 1938 SS-Sturmbannführer, as a full professor of international law, constitutional law, constitutional and popular theory at the University of Vienna, to the chair of Ludwig Adamovich senior .

On December 4, 1939, he volunteered for military service, which he began in April 1940. Gürke died of blood poisoning in a military hospital in Vienna in 1941 as a result of being wounded in the Battle of the Marne in June 1940.

to teach

In keeping with the ideology of National Socialism , Gürke taught that international law should be thought of as political law from the perspective of the “ethnic community”. According to his understanding, the people is understood as a "living unit".

Gürke explained that all international law terms are “domestic political”.

He represented anti-Semitic positions in international law . One of the pamphlets he brought out was entitled The Influence of Jewish Theorists on German International Law (published in issue 6 of the series Das Judentum in der Rechtswwissenschaft ).

After the end of the war, Gürke's writings National Socialism, Border and Foreign Germanism and Nationality Law ( Braumüller , Vienna 1932), People and International Law (Mohr, Tübingen 1935), The Influence of Jewish Theorists on German International Law (Dt. Rechts-Verl., Berlin 1938) and Principles of International Law ( Spaeth & Linde , Berlin 1942) placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet occupation zone .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Herwig Schäfer, Legal Teaching and Research at the Reich University of Strasbourg 1941-1944 , p. 90.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Michael Stolleis : History of Public Law in Germany: Vol. 3 Constitutional and Administrative Law Studies in Republic and Dictatorship, 1914-1945 . CH Beck, 1999, ISBN 978-3-406-37002-1 , pp. 294 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Reinhard Müller: Norbert Gürke. In: Homepage of the archive for the history of sociology in Austria . Institute for Sociology, Karl-Franzens-University Graz , 2015, accessed on January 19, 2016 (short biography).
  4. ^ Rüdiger Ahrens: Bündische Jugend. A new story 1918–1933 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-8353-1758-1 , p. 398 f . (Short biography).
  5. ↑ a b c d e Lothar Becker: Steps on a sloping path: The archive of public law (AöR) in the Third Reich . Mohr Siebeck, 1999, ISBN 978-3-16-147212-1 , p. 90 .
  6. ↑ cf. Gurke: People and International Law . Tübingen 1935 - also habilitation thesis at the University of Munich
  7. ↑ polunbi.de
personal data
SURNAME Gürke, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German international lawyer of the Nazi era
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz
DATE OF DEATH June 29, 1941
Place of death Vienna