Paul Zürcher

Paul Zürcher (born June 29, 1893 in Sunthausen ; † November 5, 1980 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German lawyer and politician ( BCSV , CDU ).

Life

Paul Zürcher was born the son of a farmer. After attending school, he initially earned his living as a shepherd boy. In 1898 he got a job as a hotel boy, first in Freiburg, then in Wiesbaden and Trier . From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a soldier . During the war he was used in northern France, on the Eastern Front and in Alsace, where he was wounded twice. For his services he was awarded the Iron Cross II. Class, the Baden Medal of Merit, the Front Ehrenzeichen and the Wound Badge in black.

After the end of the war, Zurich received private lessons. He passed the Abitur at the Realgymnasium and studied law , philosophy and economics at the universities of Freiburg , London and The Hague from 1920 to 1923 . In 1923 he passed the First State Examination, 1924 doctorate he in Freiburg with Professor Wilhelm van Calker to Dr. jur. (Dissertation: The implementation of Anglo-American legal ideas in the peace treaty of June 28, 1919 ) and in 1925 he passed the second state examination in law. In addition to his studies and internship, he worked as an editor for the Freiburger Tagespost , an organ of the Center Party . In 1923 he entered the Baden judicial service and from 1927 to 1930 he worked as a public prosecutor in Pforzheim . He then became a local court advisor in St. Blasien and from 1932 to 1944 he held the same position at the local court in Freiburg im Breisgau . From 1944 to 1945 he was an armaments worker in Freiburg.

After the Second World War , Zürcher was initially acting president of the Freiburg Regional Court . In September 1945 he became head of the German judicial administration for the French zone of occupation in the Baden area . From 1946 to 1947 he was Ministerial Director of the Baden Ministry of Justice. In April 1948 he was appointed President of the Freiburg Higher Regional Court.

In December 1945, Zürcher was one of the founders of the BCSV, which later became the CDU in Baden. From May 1947 he was a member of the Baden state parliament . As an agent of the state of Baden, he took part in the constitutional convention on Herrenchiemsee in 1948. After his appointment as President of the Freiburg Higher Regional Court and his election as President of the Baden State Court , he resigned his state parliament mandate on April 13, 1948. In the dispute over the formation of the south-western state , he unsuccessfully campaigned for the restoration of the former state of Baden . After the constitution of the new state, the Freiburg Higher Regional Court was repealed on July 1, 1953 and its district was added to the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court . As a result, Zürcher was initially put on hold as President of the Higher Regional Court and finally retired in 1958.

Paul Zürcher had been married since 1928 and had three sons.

Honors

• 1952: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Paul Zürcher , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 44/1957 of October 21, 1957, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Zürcher, Paul , in: Bernd Ottnad (Ed.): Badische Biographien . Volume 2. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1985, pp. 322-325
• Walther Killy, Rudolf Vierhaus (ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Saur, Munich [et al.] 1995-1999

Web links

• Paul Zürcher at the Baden-Württemberg State Archives
• Short biography at LEO-BW