Oscar Toepffer

Oscar Toepffer (born November 4, 1896 , † February 7, 1975 ) was a German lawyer .

Life

During the time of National Socialism , since 1938, Toepffer headed the legal office and the organization department in the main administrative office of the municipal administration in Hamburg .

In the period from June 28 to November 14, 1945 he held the office of Justice Senator in the Hanseatic city as a non-party . Oscar Toepffer lost this post at the instigation of the British occupying power because of his National Socialist past.

Fonts

• Oscar Toepffer: Festschrift to celebrate the centenary of the JC Frese & Co. company in Hamburg on November 1, 1929: 1829-1929 , Hamburg 1929.
• Oscar Toepffer: The most important Hamburg laws and regulations , Otto Meissners Verlag , Hamburg 1948.

See also

• List of Justice Senators from Hamburg
• Senate Petersen

literature

• Edith Raim: Justice between dictatorship and democracy. Reconstruction and prosecution of Nazi crimes in West Germany 1945 - 1949 , Oldenbourg Verlag , Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-486-70411-2 .
• Sarah Schmidt: The Hamburg State Archive under National Socialism , Hamburg University Press , Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-943-42329-7 .
• Uwe Schmidt : National Socialist School Administration in Hamburg. Four leaders , Hamburg University Press, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-937-81649-4 .

Web links

• Peter Gabrielsson: Between surrender and the formation of a new Senate. The Hamburg administration in the first days after the war in 1945 , accessed on February 23, 2017.
• Hans-Peter de Lorent: perpetrator profiles. Those responsible in Hamburg's education system under the swastika , accessed on February 23, 2017.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans-Peter de Lorent: perpetrator profiles. Those responsible in Hamburg's education system under the swastika , p. 49 , accessed on February 23, 2017.