Richard Neumann (lawyer)

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Richard Neumann (born December 5, 1878 in Gnesen , † April 10, 1955 in West Berlin ) was a German lawyer . He worked as a lawyer at the time of the Weimar Republic and after the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany he was Senate President at the Federal Court of Justice (BGH). Neumann was a prominent prisoner in the Theresienstadt ghetto and a survivor of the Holocaust .

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Neumann attended high school in Gnesen and Wiesbaden and finished his school career with the Abitur . He then studied law at the University of Heidelberg , Berlin and Göttingen . Neumann received his doctorate in 1902 in Freiburg to Dr. jur. From 1905 he worked as a court assessor. From 1908 he was a public prosecutor in Aachen and in 1911 moved to Cologne, where in 1913 he became the first public prosecutor at the higher regional court there. In 1919 Neumann was assigned to the senior Reich attorney at the Reichsgericht in Leipzig , where he worked as a Reich attorney from 1919. Later, as head of the Reich Attorney General's Office, he was responsible for the criminal prosecution of offenses against the state and was also involved in the so-called communist trials.

Due to his Jewish origin, he was dismissed by the National Socialists as a lawyer under the Professional Civil Service Act of 1935. At the end of the Second World War he was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto , where he arrived on January 5, 1945. There he was known as a "prominent prisoner". On May 8, 1945 Neumann was liberated in Theresienstadt by the Red Army .

The Soviet military administration in Germany then appointed Neumann as a public prosecutor in the Berlin-Zehlendorf district court . From mid-October 1945 he was public prosecutor and deputy attorney general at the Berlin Chamber Court until he became attorney general there himself on June 25, 1948. The agency moved to the British Sector of Berlin in early February 1949 . In mid-November 1950 he moved to the Federal Court of Justice as Senate President and took over the V Berlin Criminal Senate in late autumn 1951 . Neumann retired on December 31, 1952. In February 1953 the Senate President a. D. awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his services to the Berlin judiciary.

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  1. ^ A b Axel Feuss: The Theresienstadt convolute , Hamburg / Munich 2002, p. 55f.
  2. ^ Friedrich Scholz: Berlin und seine Justiz , Berlin / New York 1982, pp. 272f.
  3. ^ Lothar Gruchmann: Justice in the Third Reich - Adaptation and Submission in the Gürtner Era , Munich 2001, ISBN 3-486-53833-0 , p. 165
  4. ↑ Friedrich Scholz: Berlin und seine Justiz , Berlin / New York 1982, p. 273
personal data
SURNAME Neumann, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and survivor of the Holocaust
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Gniezno
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1955
Place of death Berlin