Koenigsberg Higher Regional Court

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North wing of Königsberg Castle : Higher Regional Court and Blood Court (bottom left)

The higher regional court in Königsberg was a higher court in East Prussia . The seat was Königsberg (Prussia) . The Higher Regional Court has followed the tradition of the former Higher Appeal Court in Königsberg, founded in 1657 , since the Reich Justice Acts came into force .

Subordinate courts

Seal of approval until 1918
Seal mark 1921–1933

On October 1, 1879, six regional courts with 70 local courts belonged to the higher regional court district of Königsberg ; as early as 1882 another district court was added in Wischwill and by dividing the Tilsit district court, the new district court district Memel was created in 1885; since then the number of courts - until the loss of Prussian Lithuania and Soldau - remained unchanged:

  1. Allenstein (10) - Allenstein, Gilgenburg , Hohenstein , Neidenburg , Ortelsburg , Osterode , Passenheim , Soldau (ceded to Poland in 1920), Wartenburg and Willenberg
  2. Bartenstein (17) - Barten (Rastenburg district) , Bartenstein, Bischofsburg , Bischofstein , Domnau , Friedland , Gerdauen , Guttstadt , Heilsberg , Kreuzburg , Landsberg , Nordenburg , Preußisch Eylau , Rastenburg , Rößel , Schippenbeil and Seeburg
  3. Braunsberg (10) - Braunsberg, Heiligenbeil , Liebstadt , Mehlsack , Mohrungen , Mühlhausen , Prussian Holland , Saalfeld (East Prussia) , Wormditt and Zinten
  4. Insterburg (6) - Darkehmen , Goldap , Gumbinnen , Insterburg , Pillkallen and Stallupönen
  5. Königsberg (8) - Allenburg , Fischhausen , Königsberg, Labiau , Mehlauken , Pillau , Tapiau and Wehlau
  6. Lyck (10) - Angerburg , Arys , Bialla , Johannisburg , Lötzen , Lyck , Marggrabowa , Nikolaiken , Rhein and Sensburg
  7. Tilsit (6) - Heinrichswalde , Kaukehmen , Ragnit , Skaisgirren , Tilsit and Wischwill
  8. Memel (4) - Heydekrug, Memel, Prökuls, Ruß.

In January 1945, the regional court districts of Zichenau and Bialystock , which were actually being dissolved, were briefly assigned to the Königsberg Higher Regional Court .

In the final phase of the Second World War , evacuated parts of the court staff in Rostock and from February 24, 1945 in Schwerin were moved to a “collection point for the judiciary from the Königsberg franking area”.

Authority manager

Wilhelm Schimmelpfennig, judge ( Ernst Bischoff-Culm , 1910)
President
1819 -9999: Carl von Wegnern
1832–1868: Friedrich von Zander
1879–1885: Karl Gustav von Goßler
1886 -9999: vacant
1887–1899: Ernst von Holleben
1900–1911: Karl Ludwig von Plehwe
1913–1921: von der Trenck
1922–1925: Karl Eichner
1926–1927: Max Witte
1928 -9999: Bruno Krüger
1929–1931: Hugo Holthöfer
1932 -9999: Walter Moehrs , President of the Higher Regional Court Frankfurt am Main (1946–1948)
1933 -9999: Otto Minde
1934 -9999: Otto Hardt
1937–1944: Max Draeger
1945 -9999: Max Engel
Senior Public Prosecutors / Attorneys General
Seal of the Chief Public Prosecutor until 1918
1880–1888: Otto Saro
1889 -9999: vacant
1890– : Dahlke0000
1892–1899: Karl Ludwig von Plehwe
1901-1911: EPF Voswinckel
1913–1920: Preuss
1922–1929: Krause
1930 -9999: Krause-Harder
1930–1933: Hans Danckwortt
1934– : Franz Hagemann0000
1937– : Günther Vollmer0000
1939– : Curt Capeller0000
1943– : Fritz Szelinski0000
1945 -9999: Heinz Büttner

Significant proceedings

1842 Johann Jacoby for treason to two and a half years and "cheeky, irreverent censure of state laws" imprisonment convicted.

In 1904 the Königsberg secret society trial against Otto Braun and others took place at the Königsberg regional court .

See also

literature

  • Georg Conrad: History of the Königsberg higher courts . Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1907.
  • Gothaisches yearbook for diplomacy, administration and economy . 163rd year, Gotha 1926.
  • Wilhelm Keil: Neumann's local lexicon of the German Empire. A geographic-statistical reference book for German cultural studies , 3rd edition. Leipzig 1894.
  • Christian Tilitzki : Everyday Life in East Prussia 1940–1945. The secret situation reports of the Königsberg judiciary . Special edition. Flechsig, Würzburg 2003, ISBN 3-88189-481-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ also Königsberg Tribunal, from 1808 also referred to as the Higher Regional Court.
  2. ↑ Administrative history
  3. ^ Peter Lindemann: territorial.de
  4. ^ Pomeranian jurisdiction .
  5. ↑ Acta Borussica (PDF; 1.92 MB)
  6. ↑ Blog
  7. ^ Lothar Gruchmann: Justice in the Third Reich
  8. ^ Günther Vollmer in the English language Wikipedia
  9. ↑ Szelinski hanged himself in Gestapo custody ; see Max Draeger
  10. ↑ Blog
  11. ↑ Kurt Eisner : The Tsar's Secret Society. Berlin 1904 (new edition Berlin 1988). According to Ernst-A. Seils: Hugo Haase (2016), pp. 212–225