Walter Kühn (lawyer)

Walter Gustav Fr. Kühn (born March 11, 1902 in Wittenberg , † after 1967) was a German lawyer.

Life

Kühn was born the son of an elementary school teacher. On June 17, 1918, he came to the Latin School in Halle (Saale) , where he passed the final exam at Easter 1920 . He then studied first classical philology and philosophy , later law and political science at the universities of Halle and Berlin . During his student days he worked as a parliamentary stenographer in the Reichstag and in the Prussian state parliament . After the state examination in 1928 he became archivist and head of the stenographic service at the Prussian State Council . His resolute rejection of National Socialism led to his being put into temporary retirement in 1933 . He was later reinstated as a district judge - downgraded under civil service law. After the end of the Second World War he became a judge at the Berlin-Mitte district court , shortly afterwards district court director . As a department head, he briefly moved to the Senate Department for Justice . In 1953 he came to the Berlin Court of Appeal , where he was initially President of the Senate, from 1955 he also took on the role of Vice President. From July 1958 to November 1966 he was President of the Supreme Court.

In 1961 and 1962 he was President of the Legal Society in Berlin .

Honors

• Large Federal Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany , 1967

swell

• Friedrich Scholz: Berlin and its justice. History of the District Court District 1945–1980. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1981. ISBN 3-11-008679-4

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dr. Walter Kühn President of the Court of Justice, in: Neue Stenographische Praxis 6 (1958) p. 108.