Otto Gritschneder
Otto Gritschneder (born January 11, 1914 in Munich - Schwanthalerhöhe , † March 4, 2005 in Munich) was a German legal historian , lawyer and publicist .
Life
Otto Gritschneder completed his Abitur at the Wittelsbacher Gymnasium in Munich. He was a classmate of Alfred Andersch and in 1980, in a letter to the editor, vehemently contradicted the portrayal of the headmaster Joseph Gebhard Himmler, Heinrich Himmler's father , in Andersch's story The Father of a Murderer . As a high school graduate, he joined the Bavarian People's Party . From 1933 to 1936 he studied law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1938 he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD . He passed his two state law exams in 1936 and 1939.
In 1933 he became a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Aenania Munich in the CV and met Rupert Mayer . As a law clerk and assessor shorthand he 1938 Nazi trial Jesuit priest Rupert Mayer in the special court of Munich. After the end of the trial, he was banned from practicing law because he was "entirely unrelated to the state"; In 1939 he was refused admission to the bar (“technically suitable, but politically so unreliable”). He turned down the offer made to compensate for his involvement as a lawyer in the unjust rule in the Polish General Government, although this would have prevented him from being drafted into the armed forces . Gritschneder then studied political economy with a degree in economics .
After five years in the war, he was appointed a lawyer by the American military government in 1945 and opened a law firm. Albert Scharf was later a partner . In 1964 he defended the publisher of the Spiegel , Rudolf Augstein , against Franz Josef Strauss .
From 1948 to 1952 he was city councilor of the state capital Munich as a non-party candidate.
In 1953 he founded the legal press service Gritschneder , which processes current court decisions and delivers them to the media and is now run by the founder's grandson, Andreas Gritschneder.
Gritschneder published mainly on the subject of Hitler and justice; He published his notes from the trial against Rupert Mayer in 1965. He also told very amusing stories from his legal work in the lawyers' stories (CH Beck). In 1996 he published his memoirs technically suitable, politically unreliable . His work cost overview tables appeared in the 15th edition.
Gritschneder has always spoken out against abortion and state divorce . To this end, he had published Drum check who binds himself forever in 1954 .
He had nine children with his wife Margarete.
Awards and honors
- Arnold Freymuth Prize in recognition of his contribution to coming to terms with the history of justice in the Third Reich (1996)
- Gold medal " Munich shines - the friends of Munich" (1998)
- Medal for Services to the Bavarian Justice (2003)
- Bavarian Constitutional Medal in Silver (2002)
- Max Friedlaender Prize of the Bavarian Bar Association (2004)
- Academy Award 2004 of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences as "contemporary witness and sometimes uncomfortable reminder"
- Honorary member of the Association for Research and Representation of the German Legal and Judicial History of the 20th Century, Munich
Fonts
Legal historical publications
- Father Rupert Mayer before the special court. Anton Pustet, Munich / Salzburg 1965.
- The Bruhne case . Ullstein, Frankfurt / Berlin / Vienna 1966.
- Pay for soul ache. Sensational court cases. Interfrom, Zurich 1976, ISBN 3-7201-5071-2 .
- Defendant Ludwig Thoma. Pieces of the mosaic for a biography from unpublished files. Rosenheimer Verlagshaus, Rosenheim 1978, ISBN 3-475-52227-6 .
- I keep preaching. Father Rupert Mayer and the Third Reich. Rosenheimer Verlagshaus, Rosenheim 1987, ISBN 3-475-52544-5 .
- Probation period for the terrorist Adolf H. The Hitler putsch and the Bavarian judiciary. CH Beck, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-406-34511-5 .
- The Führer has sentenced you to death ... Hitler's Röhm Putsch murders in court. CH Beck, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-406-37651-7 .
- with Lothar Gruchmann and Reinhard Weber: The Hitler Trial 1924 Volume 1. 1st - 4th day of negotiations. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11317-X .
- with Lothar Gruchmann and Reinhard Weber: The Hitler Trial 1924 Volume 2. 5th - 11th day of negotiations. KG Saur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-598-11318-8 .
- with Lothar Gruchmann and Reinhard Weber: The Hitler Trial 1924 Volume 3. 12th - 18th day of negotiations. KG Saur, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-598-11319-6 .
- with Lothar Gruchmann and Reinhard Weber: The Hitler Trial 1924 Volume 4. 19th - 25th day of negotiations. KG Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11355-2 .
- Terrible judges. Criminal death sentences by German courts-martial. CH Beck, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-42072-9 .
- The Hitler trial and its judge Georg Neithardt . The scandalous verdict of 1924 paves the way for Hitler. CH Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-48292-9 .
Legal publications, legal advisers
- Therefore, examine whoever binds forever. Carl Lange, Duisburg 1954.
- with Eitel Giebisch: Legal issues of everyday life. 2nd Edition. Sebastian Lux, Murnau 1955.
- Legal Lexicon. Ullstein, Frankfurt / Berlin / Vienna 1967.
- Family law. Ullstein, Frankfurt / Berlin / Vienna 1968.
- Land purchase and house building. Ullstein, Frankfurt / Berlin / Vienna 1969.
- On the way to marriage. The right in marriage and in the family. Christophorus, Freiburg 1970.
- with Volker Pohl: patient, doctor, insurance. Ullstein, Frankfurt / Berlin / Vienna 1970.
- Divorce in the reform. A. Fromm, Osnabrück 1971.
- with John M. Finnis and Antoine Suarez: Right to Justice. Documentation of a colloquium. Adamas-Verlag, Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-920007-50-6 .
- Family law. Ullstein, Frankfurt / Berlin / Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-548-04009-8 .
- Divorce in the reform. A critical documentation. A. Fromm, Osnabrück 1984, ISBN 3-7729-5010-8 .
- Labor law for practice. Ullstein, Frankfurt / Berlin / Vienna 1984, ISBN 3-548-04040-3 .
- Ullstein Lexicon of Law. Ullstein, Frankfurt / Berlin / Vienna 1985, ISBN 3-550-06018-1 .
- Cost overview tables. 15th edition. Boorberg, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-415-02228-5 .
Other writings
- Aside. Self-published, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-980-03690-1 .
- Further marginal notes. Self-published, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-980-03692-8 .
- Professionally suitable, politically unreliable. Memoirs. CH Beck, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-406-40240-2 .
- Lawyer stories. 2nd Edition. CH Beck, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-406-49855-8 .
Web links
- Heribert Prantl : Attorney Otto Gritschneder. (PDF; 377 kB) In: Mitteilungen II / 2005. of the Munich Legal Society. P. 20. Extensive obituary.
- Literature by and about Otto Gritschneder in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Character assassination of the Rex? In: Der Spiegel . No. 34 , 1980 ( online ).
- ↑ a b forumjustizgeschichte.de, Forum Justizgeschichte (July 10, 2005) ( Memento of July 13, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Interview BR-alpha, July 29, 1999 ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) br-online.de
- ^ Homepage of the Freymuth Society
- ↑ a b deutschesfachbuch.de, author description of the German specialist book ( Memento from April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ bayerischer-anwaltverband.de (PDF) December 3, 2004
- ^ Anniversary of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences 2004 Press release ( Memento of December 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gritschneder, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German legal historian, lawyer and publicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 11, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich - Schwanthalerhöhe |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 4, 2005 |
| Place of death | Munich - Schwanthalerhöhe |