Richard Oesterheld

Richard Oesterheld (born April 11, 1880 in Bornhagen , † after 1945) was a German judge .

Life

The son of a Protestant manor owner passed both state examinations (1903, 1907) with "sufficient". In 1907 he became a court assessor and in 1912 a district judge in Ratibor. At the First World War he took recently as lieutenant of the reserve part. In 1920 he was appointed district judge . He was appointed senior judge at the Hamm Higher Regional Court in May 1925 and in Celle in December 1925 as an assistant judge in Ratibor. He was assistant judge at the Reichsgericht from 1931 and from September 1, 1932 Reich Judge. He was in the VII Civil Senate and III. Criminal Senate and 1945 in the VI. Civil Senate active. Because he had hopes of a Senate presidency, he joined the NSDAP in 1937.

Memberships

• 1926-1928 DVP
• May 1, 1937 NSDAP ( membership number 5,343,821)
• November 1, 1937 Blockleiter
• April 1934 Supporting member of the SS

Honors

• Iron Cross 2nd class in the First World War
• April 20, 1938 Silver Loyalty Service Decoration
• July 6, 1939 Golden Loyalty Service Decoration

literature

• Friedrich Karl Kaul , History of the Reichsgericht, Volume IV (1933–1945), East Berlin 1971, pp. 284f.
• Klaus-Detlev Godau-Schüttke : The Federal Court of Justice - Justice in Germany -, Berlin 2005, p. 48.