Walter Gutkind

Walter Adolf Gutkind (born May 26, 1880 in Braunschweig , † March 1, 1976 in Guildford ) was a German lawyer and senior administrative judge.

Life

Career

Walter Gutkind, from a Jewish family, was the son of the Brunswick banker Max Gutkind and his wife Fanny, née Hertz. In 1898 he passed his Abitur at Martino-Katharineum Braunschweig and began a one-year internship in his father's bank. From 1899 he studied law in Munich , Berlin , Heidelberg and Leipzig and began in 1902 as a trainee lawyer and court assessor in the Brunswick civil service. In 1901 Gutkind converted to the Protestant denomination. He passed the first state examination in law in 1902, the second state examination followed in 1907. He was awarded a doctorate in 1905 with his dissertation The business “an assignment” (§ 95 HGB) at the University of Leipzig. jur. PhD.

He began his professional career in 1912 as a district judge in Vechelde . He took part in the First World War on the Western Front from 1914 to 1918 , was promoted to captain and awarded both classes of the Iron Cross . Gutkind was a judge at the regional court and the higher court in Braunschweig from 1920. In 1928 he was promoted to the higher administrative judge at the Braunschweig Administrative Court . Under the rule of the National Socialists from 1933 Gutkind was initially left in office as a former front-line fighter, but was forced into retirement in 1935 due to his Jewish descent. He moved to Berlin , was interned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp in November 1938 and emigrated to Great Britain on December 30, 1938 with his wife and daughter. He worked as a house servant and office worker as he was not receiving a pension . It was not until 1951 that Gutkind received back pensions from the Federal Republic of Germany as part of a reparation procedure . The subsequent promotion to the Higher Administrative Court President a. D. was granted in 1959. Gutkind died in Guildford / Surrey in 1976.

family

Gutkind was with the Christian Margarete, geb. Pape (* 1897), married from Calbe (Saale) . The daughter Lore-Barbara (Annerose) was born in Braunschweig in 1926.

literature

• Reinhard Bein : Eternal House. Jewish cemeteries in the city and country of Braunschweig. Braunschweig 2004, ISBN 3-92-526824-3 .
• Richard Moderhack : Brunsvicensia judaica. Memorial book for the Jewish fellow citizens of the city of Braunschweig 1933–1945. (= Braunschweiger Werkstücke; Volume 35), Braunschweig 1966, p. 173.
• Bernhild Vögel: Gutkind, Walter Adolf . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 235 .