Rudolf Heymann

Rudolf Heymann (born July 22, 1874 in Braunschweig ; died May 10, 1947 there ) was a German judge of Jewish descent. From 1925 to 1939 he was an appellate judge in Braunschweig .

Life

The son of the Jewish lawyer Victor Heymann and his wife Pauline, b. Ramdohr († 1874), a Christian, was baptized Protestant. He passed his Abitur in 1893 and studied law in Freiburg and Berlin. After his legal clerkship and his doctorate, he took up work as a court assessor in the Braunschweig judicial service in 1900. He was promoted to district judge in 1908 and to district judge in 1913.

Heymann took part in the First World War as a major in the Landwehr and was awarded the Iron Cross I and II Class and the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern . He was badly wounded at the front and lost his left arm. In 1925 he became a higher regional judge and later also legal advisor of the Reichsbank office in Braunschweig. He was married to a Protestant and had four children. His daughter Ilse married the Braunschweig lawyer Friedrich-Wilhelm Holland in 1933 , his daughter Ursula the lawyer Gerhard Meine.

time of the nationalsocialism

Heymann, both as a lifetime civil servant appointed before 1914 and as a so-called front-line fighter in World War I, fell under the exceptional provisions of the Professional Civil Service Act , so that despite his half-Jewish origins, he initially remained in the judicial service until his retirement in 1939 and at the instigation of Reichsbank President Hjalmar Schacht . His stepmother, the Hamburg banker's daughter Adele, b. Jonas was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp on March 16, 1943 , where she died that same year. Half-sister Bertha (1884–1942), who as a painter was banned from exhibiting and painting at the time of National Socialism , died in a concentration camp in the east. Heymann's son Hans Viktor was called up for military service and starved to death in Soviet captivity.

After the Second World War

After the end of the war, Heymann, who as a non-National Socialist was on the “White List” of his colleague Dr. Walter Gutkind stood, temporarily chairman of the Braunschweig denazification committee. He died in Braunschweig in 1947 and was buried in the main cemetery there.

literature

Reinhard Bein : Eternal House. Jewish cemeteries in the city and country of Braunschweig. Braunschweig 2004, ISBN 3-925268-24-3 , p. 221.
Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 276 .

Individual evidence

^ Bert Bilzer , Richard Moderhack (ed.): Brunsvicensia Judaica. Memorial book for the Jewish fellow citizens of the city of Braunschweig 1933–1945. in: Braunschweig workpieces. Volume 35, Braunschweig 1966, p. 177.
^ ^A ^b Rudolf Wassermann: On the history of the Braunschweig Higher Regional Court. 1989 in: Rudolf Wassermann (Ed.): Justice in the course of time. Festschrift of the Higher Regional Court of Braunschweig. 1989 Braunschweig pp. 11-110.
^ Ingeborg Bloth: German Art 1933–1945 in Braunschweig. Braunschweig 2000, p. 90.
^ Hans Bergemann, Simone Ladwig-Winters: Judges and prosecutors of Jewish origin under National Socialism. A documentation. Cologne 2004, p. 375.
^ Dieter Miosge : The discrimination, the discrimination and the persecution of Jewish jurists in Braunschweig. 1989 in: Deutsche Richterzeitung. 1989 p. 49ff.

personal data
SURNAME	Heymann, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH	July 22, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH	Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH	May 10, 1947
Place of death	Braunschweig

[1] Bert Bilzer , Richard Moderhack (ed.): Brunsvicensia Judaica. Memorial book for the Jewish fellow citizens of the city of Braunschweig 1933–1945. in: Braunschweig workpieces. Volume 35, Braunschweig 1966, p. 177.

[Wassmann-2] A ^b Rudolf Wassermann: On the history of the Braunschweig Higher Regional Court. 1989 in: Rudolf Wassermann (Ed.): Justice in the course of time. Festschrift of the Higher Regional Court of Braunschweig. 1989 Braunschweig pp. 11-110.

[3] Ingeborg Bloth: German Art 1933–1945 in Braunschweig. Braunschweig 2000, p. 90.

[4] Hans Bergemann, Simone Ladwig-Winters: Judges and prosecutors of Jewish origin under National Socialism. A documentation. Cologne 2004, p. 375.

[5] Dieter Miosge : The discrimination, the discrimination and the persecution of Jewish jurists in Braunschweig. 1989 in: Deutsche Richterzeitung. 1989 p. 49ff.