Wroclaw Higher Regional Court
The Breslau Higher Regional Court was a German Higher Regional Court that existed from 1879 to 1945.
history
The Breslau Higher Regional Court was formed with effect from October 1, 1879 as one of 13 Higher Regional Courts in Prussia . The seat of the court was Wroclaw . The higher regional court district was congruent with the province of Silesia and initially consisted of the 14 districts of the district courts of Beuthen , Breslau , Brieg , Glatz , Gleiwitz , Glogau , Görlitz , Hirschberg , Liegnitz , Neisse , Oels , Oppeln , Ratibor and Schweidnitz .
In 1933 a Higher Hereditary Health Court and a Special Court were created at the Higher Regional Court . On April 1, 1941, the district court districts of Beuthen-Kattowitz, Bielitz, Gleiwitz, Neisse, Oppeln, Ratibor and Teschen were added to the newly created higher regional court of Katowice . The higher regional court existed until 1945.
President of the OLG Breslau
- 1880–1887: Richard Ernst Emil Schultz-Völcker (* 1820)
- 1888–1904: Otto Friedrich Leopold von Kunowski (1824–1907)
- 1904–1905: Max Beseler
- 1905–1917: Felix Vierhaus (1850–1917)
- 1918–1927: Max Greiff (1862–1932)
- 1927–1933: Max Witte (* 1871)
- 1933–1936: August Herwegen (* 1879)
- 1936–1942: Walter Freiherr von Steinaecker
- 1943–1945: Friedrich Walter Jung
See also
literature
- Eberhard Eggel: “200 Years of the Higher Regional Court of Breslau 1742–1942” , in: Yearbook of the Silesian Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Breslau, Volume 1, Würzburg 1955, p. 182ff.
Web links
- Description on territorial.de
- Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. olg_breslau.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Law on the establishment of the higher regional courts and the regional courts of March 4, 1878 ( PrGS 1878, pp. 109–124 )
- ↑ Decree on the establishment of a higher regional court in Katowice of March 20, 1941 ( RGBl. I p. 156 )