Walter Tölke

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Walter Tölke (born January 22, 1883 in Rengersdorf ; † August 22, 1966 in Neumünster ) was a German judge.

Life

Tölke studied law at the University of Jena and was active in the Corps Franconia Jena in 1902 . The Prussian University of Greifswald doctorate him in 1910 to Dr. iur. During the First World War he served as a reserve lieutenant from 1914 to 1918 , awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd class. In the Weimar Republic he was the district court director in Berlin. In this capacity, as chairman of the Charlottenburg jury on December 10, 1928, he sentenced George Grosz, among other things, for the caricature " Christ with the gas mask " with the signature " shut up and continue to serve " in the first instance to a fine of 2,000 marks each, alternatively two months Jail. In 1937 he came to the Reichsgericht . Until 1945 he worked in the First Civil Senate of the Reich Court . In 1945/46 he became a judge and president of the Senate at the Gera Higher Regional Court . He left at the end of 1951. Walter Toelke was regarded by the GDR Ministry of Justice as an " old school judge who is unwilling to switch ". On August 9, 1954, he moved from Erfurt to Nortorf .

Memberships

  • 1918–1933 member of the DNVP
  • after 1945 LDPD

Fonts

  • with Reinhard von Godin and Hans von Godin: Marriage Act of February 20, 1946: With reprint of the provisions of the implementing ordinances for the Marriage Act of July 6, 1938 , 2 editions, Berlin 1947, 1950 that are still in force .

Web links

  • Entry in "Gerhard Köbler: Who is who in German law"

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth and death dates according to information from the Nortorfer Land office
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 26 , 525
  3. ↑ Dissertation: The so-called. Furniture leasing agreement with special consideration of the execution of the foreclosure on the same .
  4. ↑ Kurt Tucholsky , Ignaz Wrobel: "The reasoning" , in: Die Weltbühne from March 19, 1929, No. 12, p. 435 ; Ute Maack, Viktor Otto (eds.): Kurt Tucholsky: Complete Edition, Volume 11, "Texts 1929", Reinbek bei Hamburg 2005, p. 902.
  5. ↑ Rainer Schröder (Ed.): Civil Law Culture of the GDR, in: Zeitgeschichtliche Forschungen Volume 2/1, Berlin 1999, pp. 375f. for 1948.
  6. ↑ a b Petra Weber : “ Justice and dictatorship. Administration of Justice and Political Criminal Justice in Thuringia 1945–1961 ”, Sources and presentations on contemporary history 46, Munich 2000, p. 269 f. GoogleBooks
  7. ↑ Information office Nortorfer Land
personal data
SURNAME Tölke, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tölke, Adolf Karl Ferdinand Walter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German judge, President of the Senate at the Reich Court
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Rengersdorf
DATE OF DEATH 22nd August 1966
Place of death Neumunster