Walter Sommer (politician, 1905)

Walter Sommer (born July 13, 1905 in Leipzig , † March 13, 1989 in Kaiserslautern ) was a German judge and ministerial official. Most recently, he was Lord Mayor of Kaiserslautern.

Life

After attending grammar school in his hometown Halle, Sommer studied law and political science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1924 . In 1924 he became a member of the Corps Makaria Munich . As an inactive he continued his studies in Paris and Oxford and at the Albertus University in Königsberg . In July 1929 he passed the legal traineeship at the Königsberg Higher Regional Court . In 1930 he received a doctorate in commercial law as a Dr. iur. PhD .

In 1934 he passed the assessor examination at the higher court . He became a court assessor at the Halle district and regional court, in 1938 a local judge in Stolberg (Harz) and in 1940 an assistant judge at the higher regional court in Naumburg . In 1941 he was appointed to the Reich Ministry of Justice and in 1943 appointed to the higher regional judge. At the Reich Ministry of Justice, among other things, from 1943 he dealt with the effects of the 3rd Criminal Law Simplification Ordinance. From 1944 he was employed in the Reich Chancellery . After the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , he returned to the Reich Ministry of Justice.

Summer's grave in the main cemetery (Kaiserslautern)

As one of the first judges, Sommer was appointed to Bremen after the collapse in September 1945 and received a position as chairman of the second criminal chamber and the jury court . In 1950 he was elected legal advisor to the city administration in Hanover and in 1952 city director in Leverkusen . In 1956 he was unanimously elected Lord Mayor of Kaiserslautern. He retired in 1967 and stayed in Kaiserslautern. He was shot in his garden on March 2, 1989 and died eleven days later as a result of the gunshot wound. The motive for the crime and the perpetrator are still unclear.

literature

• Deutsche Corpszeitung vol. 76 (1975), p. 183 f.
• Heinz Friedel, Kaiserslautern - From the Imperial Era to the founding of the university, Geschwister-Schmidt Verlag, 1998, pp. 140–141.
• Melitta Rinnert, Mr. Karcher and Miss Benzino as well as other Kaiserslautern personalities, MeRiKa-Verlag, 2015, pp. 344–345.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 88/644
2. ↑ Dissertation: ownership and ownership of the loading note with special consideration of a double issue .
3. ↑ Minutes of the working conference of the Reich Ministry of Justice on February 3 and 4, 1944 in Weimar, in: Werner Schubert (Ed.) The Reich Ministry of Justice and the higher judicial authorities in the Nazi era (1935-1944) , Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt, 2015, p 501-542.