Rüdiger von der Goltz (lawyer)

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Rüdiger Graf von der Goltz

Gustav Adolf Karl Joachim Rüdiger Graf von der Goltz (born July 10, 1894 in Charlottenburg , † April 18, 1976 in Düsseldorf ) was a German lawyer, criminal defense attorney and politician ( NSDAP ).

Live and act

Von der Goltz was the son of the general of the same name, Rüdiger von der Goltz (1865–1946). He first became a soldier , fought in World War I and retired from active service in 1915 after being seriously injured and amputated his leg. Von der Goltz then studied law in Geneva , Tübingen and Berlin . In 1919 he was in Greifswald to Dr. jur. PhD. From 1922 to 1934 he practiced as a lawyer in Szczecin .

Von der Goltz became known as a defender in several fememord trials ( Edmund Heines , August Hermann Fahlbusch ) and in the Goebbels trial. In the spring of 1933 he became President of the Provincial Parliament of the Pomerania Province . In May 1933 he was appointed Reich Trustee for Labor for Pomerania and the Prussian State Council before he moved to Berlin in 1934, where he worked as a lawyer and notary . von der Goltz was one of the founding members of the National Socialist Academy for German Law by Hans Franks in 1933 . From March 29, 1936 he was a member of the Reichstag for the NSDAP and a member of the Criminal Law Commission at the Reich Ministry of Justice . Since 1935 he represented several commercial enterprises in litigation; In 1938 he was the defense attorney for Werner von Fritsch in his trial during the Blomberg-Fritsch crisis . At the beginning of the war in 1939 he was transferred to the military attaché in Brussels; He resigned his seat in the Reichstag in 1943.

Von der Goltz was a cousin of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and represented him before the Imperial Court Martial , as did Hans von Dohnanyi for a short time . After 1945 he worked as a lawyer at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court .

Von der Goltz was married to Astrid Hjort (born June 27, 1896).

The son Hans Graf von der Goltz became Herbert Quandt's personal general representative in 1971 and, among other things, chairman of the supervisory board of BMW AG.

Fonts

  • The purchase of securities. Greifswald, 1919 (law and political dissertation, 1919)
  • Serious thoughts on the 10th birthday of the German Republic November 9, 1928. Berlin: Brunnen-Verlag K. Winckler, [1928], November 1–10 . Thousand
  • Germany's present minds about Germany's future. Berlin: Eigenbrödler-Verlag, [1929]
  • Tribute justice. Berlin: Brunnen-Verl. Bischoff, 1932 [ed. 1931], 1. – 5. Thousand
  • Speech by Count [Rüdiger] von der Goltz to the main economic group and district economic leaders on November 14, 1934 [in the meeting room of the Reich Economic Council] [sl]: [sn] (Eberswalde: C. Müller), 1934

literature

  • Werner Schubert: Sources for the reform of the criminal law and criminal procedure law. Berlin; New York: W. de Gruyter, 1988 II. Department, Volume 2, Part 1 (Biogram P. XXVII)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Yearbook of the Academy for German Law, 1st year 1933/34. Edited by Hans Frank. (Munich, Berlin, Leipzig: Schweitzer Verlag), p. 254.
personal data
SURNAME Goltz, Rüdiger from the
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goltz, Rüdiger Graf von der (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Charlottenburg
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1976
Place of death Dusseldorf