Werner Fontaine

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Werner Fontaine (born May 23, 1881 in Wülfel , † September 9, 1962 in Hanover ) was a German lawyer and district court director .

Life

The Wülfel manor around 1912

Werner Fontaine was born in 1881 to Armand Fontaine, the owner of the Wülfel manor . Fontaine studied law and wrote his dissertation in 1904 at the Faculty of Law at the University of Rostock under Bernhard Matthiass on the subject of the service contract and the paid custody contract of the civil code .

In 1912 Fontaine worked as a court assessor and had acquired his father's manor due to an early dispute.

From 1923/1924 Fontaine worked as a district court advisor in Hanover. From 1924 to 1932 he was a member of the German People's Party (DVP).

Werner Fontaine was a member of the Rotary Club Hannover , where he gave several lectures. As a result, he was not promoted as a civil servant until the end of the Nazi era in 1945.

In the Nuremberg trial of the main war criminals , the former head of the Wehrmacht High Command, Wilhelm Keitel, had ignored a list of possible defense lawyers that had been handed over to him and instead applied for his brother-in-law, Werner Fontaine, to be represented. Fontaine did not take on this task, according to one of his grandchildren, possibly because he had only worked in the area of ​​civil law until then.

In 1947 Fontaine was appointed director of the Hanover District Court by the British military authorities and remained in this position until 1949. Fontaine died on September 9, 1962 in Hanover.

Fonts

  • The service contract and the paid custody contract of the Civil Code. Dissertation at the law faculty of the University of Rostock. Adler's heirs, Rostock 1904, OCLC 832957932 .

Werner Street

Fontaine's father had already laid out a street in Wülfel before 1900, which leads from Wiehbergstrasse to Hildesheimer Strasse and was given the son's first name as Wernerstrasse.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Helmut Zimmermann : Hanover's street names. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter . New episode, Volume 35, 1981, p. 118. ( limited preview in Google book search)
  2. ↑ a b c d N.N. : Fontaine / Werner. in the list of street names to be retained (of the state capital Hanover), ed. by the Urban Remembrance Culture team under the working title Scientific consideration of eponymous personalities. ( downloadable from the hannover.de website in the version dated September 29, 2015)
  3. ^ Gustav Stölting, Börries von Münchhausen (ed.): The manors of the principalities of Calenberg, Göttingen and Grubenhagen. Description, history, legal relationships and 121 illustrations. By decision of the knighthood and with the participation of the sole owner. Sachse & Heinzelmann, Hannover 1912, p. 156. ( limited preview in the Google book search)
  4. ^ Finding aid of the files of German Rotary clubs. ( Digitized on the doczz.com.br page )
  5. ↑ Jens Brüggemann: Men of Honor? The Wehrmacht generality in the Nuremberg Trial in 1945/46. About the making of a legend. (= War in History. Volume 112). Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2018, ISBN 978-3-506-79259-4 , p. 128. ( limited preview in Google book search)
personal data
SURNAME Fontaine, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and non-fiction author, honorary professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Wülfel before Hanover
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1962
Place of death Hanover