Rudolf Schneider (lawyer)

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Rudolf Schneider (born February 1, 1875 in Neustadt OS ; † November 30, 1956 in Wiesbaden ) was a German lawyer and at the time of National Socialism president of the Hamm Higher Regional Court .

biography

After studying law in 1901, the son of a businessman joined the judiciary as a judge and in 1907 became a district judge in Glatz. After participating in the First World War , he was appointed district judge in 1917 and in 1919 senior judge at the Breslau Higher Regional Court . From 1922 he worked for the Foreign Office and acted as a "German arbitrator at the mixed arbitration tribunal for Upper Silesia in Bytom". After that, he was President of the Senate in 1923 at the Court of Appeal and from 1924 President of the District Court Bytom . During the Weimar Republic he belonged to the center and the Catholic Association of Officials.

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On July 14, 1933, during the National Socialist era, Schneider became President of the Hamm Higher Regional Court. Although he had belonged to the Center and the Catholic Civil Service Association during the Weimar Republic , he advocated and supported National Socialism. In his inaugural speech, for example, he urged his employees to “fully serve National Socialism”. The “reorganization of the state” had to “extend equally to the judiciary.” Schneider became a member of the NSDAP in 1940. On April 23 and 24, 1941, Schneider attended the conference of the highest jurists in the German Reich , Viktor, in Berlin Brack and Werner Heyde informed about the "destruction of life unworthy of life" in the gas chambers of the T4 campaign . In this context he became aware of the “pseudo-legalization of the murder of the sick” by Franz Schlegelberger . He retired in March 1943. Hans Semler succeeded him as President of the Higher Regional Court in Hamm .

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • Hans-Eckhard Niermann: The implementation of political and politicized criminal justice in the Third Reich, its development shown using the example of the OLG district of Hamm . In: Ministry of Justice of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (Ed.): Legal contemporary history . Vol. 3 Criminal Justice in the Third Reich . Düsseldorf 1995
  • The protocols of the Prussian State Ministry 1817–1934 / 38 : Vol. 12, April 4, 1925 to May 10, 1938 / edit. by Reinhold Zilch, with collabor. by Bärbel Holtz. Acta Borussica, New Series / ed. from the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (formerly Prussian Academy of Sciences)., Volume 2

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to: Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 553
  2. ^ The protocols of the Prussian State Ministry 1817-1934 / 38 : Vol. 12, April 4, 1925 to May 10, 1938 / edit. by Reinhold Zilch, with collabor. by Bärbel Holtz. Acta Borussica, New Series / ed. from the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (formerly Prussian Academy of Sciences)., Volume 2, p. 689
  3. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 553
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and Higher Regional Court President Hamm
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt OS
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1956
Place of death Wiesbaden