Paul Richter (judge)

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Paul Ferdinand Richter (born August 30, 1856 in Dessau ; † 1939 ) was Reich Attorney and Senate President at the Reich Court .

Life

The Prussian judge became a trainee lawyer in 1880 and a court assessor in 1886. In 1892 he became a public prosecutor in Schneidemühl . In 1894 he was transferred to the district court of Berlin I, and in 1897 to the higher court . In 1900 he was promoted to the Public Prosecutor's Office. In 1903 he worked as an unskilled worker for the Reich Attorney General. In 1905 he was appointed to the chamber judge's position while continuing to work with the Reich Bar. In 1906 he became a lawyer. In 1921 he was appointed President of the Senate of the VI. Appointed criminal senate and at the same time the fifth criminal senate of the Reichsgericht . In April 1923 he became President of the Senate of the First Instance Criminal Senate . In August 1923 he chaired the trial against Walter Oehme , in which Oehme was sentenced to one year in prison for "attempted betrayal of military secrets in unity with attempted treason", because in March 1923 he over the plans to form the so-called Black Reichswehr reported. In 1924 he retired.

literature

  • Adolf Lobe : “Fifty Years of the Reichsgericht on October 1, 1929”, Berlin 1929, p. 402.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Rudolf Huber : German constitutional history since 1789. Volume V: World War, Revolution and Reich renewal , Stuttgart et al. 1978, p. 372.
  2. ^ Berthold Jacob : Plaidoyer for Schulz, Die Weltbühne from March 1927, Volume 31 / I, p. 446f.
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Judge, Paul Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and Senate President at the Reichsgericht
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH 1939