Traugott Wulfhorst

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Traugott Wulfhorst (born September 19, 1927 in Schwelm ; † April 23, 2015 ) was a German judge at the Federal Social Court .

Life

Traugott Wulfhorst first attended high school before he was drafted into military service in 1944. He returned from the war seriously wounded. From October 1948 to September 1951 he studied at the Universities of Münster , Bonn and Cologne law , which he successfully completed the first legal state examination 1,951th In 1954 he received his doctorate and a year later he passed the second state law examination. He then became a judge in the social justice system . In 1963 he became a state social judge at the state social court of North Rhine-Westphalia .

From 1971 to 1992 Wulfhorst was a judge at the Federal Social Court . He was a member of the 9th Senate, which is responsible, among other things, for provisions for war victims . In 1979 he became vice chairman of the 9th Senate. He was involved in the sensational Senate decision of September 11, 1991, in which the judgments of the German courts-martial in World War II were rated as “obvious injustice”.

In addition to his work at the Federal Social Court, Wulfhorst has made numerous publications on social compensation law as well as legal sociological and contemporary history issues.

Fonts (selection)

  • Would it be unconstitutional to make voluntary sterilization a criminal offense? . In: Neue Juristische Wochenschrift (NJW) 1967, pp. 649–654.
  • Problems of the justification of law in judicial training - judge law and scientific knowledge about social reality . In: Konrad von Bonin (ed.): Justifications of the law II - lawyers-theologians discussion in Hofgeismar . Göttingen 1979, pp. 80-101.
  • The indirect employer in social security law - a contribution to the teaching of the employment relationship . In: Zeitschrift für Sozialreform 1964, pp. 549 ff., 600 ff., 661 ff., 708 ff.
  • Judicial concretization of social law norms with the help of legal facts . In: Bertram Schulin, Wolfgang Dreher (Hrsg.): Social law legal fact research - problems and perspectives. Colloquium of the Institute for Legal Fact Research at the University of Konstanz . Konstanz 1987 pp. 53-77.
  • Social compensation - politics and society, legal sociology to support war, military and community service, vaccination damage and violence victims . Baden-Baden 1994.
  • From “young soldier” to revision judge for war victims. In: Ullrich Herrmann, Rolf-Dieter Müller (ed.): Young soldiers in World War II. War experiences as life experiences . Weinheim 2010, pp. 287-293.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BSG, judgment of September 11, 1991 - Az. 9a RV 11/90, BSGE 69, 211 = NJW 1992, 934 = BB 1992, 433.
  2. ^ Martin Rath: Military Criminal Justice before the BSG: 1991 - Another September 11th, another war . In: Legal Tribune Online . September 11, 2011 ( lto.de [accessed on March 13, 2017] Review of the 20th anniversary of the pronouncement of the judgment).
  3. ↑ Volker Ullrich: "I pushed myself out ..." - The lot of tens of thousands of German deserters in World War II . In: The time . September 27, 1991, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed on March 13, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Wulfhorst, Traugott
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German judge
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwelm
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 2015