Philipp Daltrop

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Philipp Daltrop (born March 23, 1876 in Cassel ; † March 1, 1957 ) was a German lawyer. In 1950 he was President of the Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt am Main .

Career

Daltrop spent his childhood and school days in Kassel. He studied law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. In 1897 he passed the first state examination and in 1903 the second state examination. In 1903 he became a court assistant at the local courts in Goldenberg, Kassel, Schmalkalden and at the Kassel regional court. In 1908 he was appointed magistrate and in 1911 promoted to district judge in Kassel. He served in the First World War from 1917 to 1917 with the 2nd Kurhessischer Feldartillerieregiment, most recently as captain of the reserve. In 1917 he became a judge at the regional court and in the same year an assistant judge at the Kassel Higher Regional Court . In 1919 he was promoted to the higher regional judge. In 1921 he was a member of the dissolution office for family estates in Kassel and in 1924 he was appointed President of the Cassel Regional Court . He was removed from this position in 1933 as "politically intolerable" and was forcibly transferred as Senate President of the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court . In Kassel, he made his opponent the lawyer Roland Freisler because he had sentenced him to a fine for insulting and defamation and refused his admission to the notary's office . On August 1, 1937, he was retired at the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court on his own application. From June 1940 to August 1942 he served as an assistant judge due to the war

After the collapse of the Third Reich, he made himself available to help rebuild the Hessian judiciary. On March 1, 1946, he was appointed head of the Darmstadt branch of the Frankfurt am Main Higher Regional Court and on June 1, 1948, he was appointed Vice President of the OLG. By resolution of the Hessian Cabinet, he became President of the Higher Regional Court with effect from January 1, 1950 - at the age of 74 - as the successor to Walter Moehrs . He worked until the end of the year. In November 1952 he was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his services to the reconstruction of the Hessian judiciary.

Honors

literature

  • Arthur von Gruenewaldt: The judiciary of the higher regional court Frankfurt am Main in the time of the national socialism: The personnel policy and personnel development . Volume 83 of contributions to the legal history of the 20th century. ISBN 978-3-16153843-8 , p. 161
  • Erhard Zimmer: The history of the higher regional court in Frankfurt am Main. - Kramer, 1976
  • Hans-Jürgen Kahlfuss: 125 years of the Murhard Foundation of the City of Kassel and its library, 1863-1988, in: Hessian research on historical regional and folklore, issue 17. , Association for Hessian history and regional studies, Kassel, 1988, p. 17.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kassel is used consistently in the article , although the official name was Cassel until 1926 .
personal data
SURNAME Daltrop, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Cassel
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1957