Werner Meißner (lawyer)

Werner Meissner

Werner Meißner (born June 12, 1882 in Frankfurt am Main ; † September 9, 1962 there ) was a German public prosecutor.

Life

Meißner studied law in Freiburg and Münster. He became a public prosecutor at the Frankfurt am Main regional court . There he was a prosecutor in 1931/32 in the famous trial against the directors of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Versicherungs AG (FAVAG), which collapsed in 1929, for fraud, bankruptcy offenses and concealment of accounts. The indictment was based on the findings of a special audit under stock corporation law , which the supervisory board had initiated against the management board of FAVAG. The indictment comprised 400 pages and was supported by extensive expert reports. This scandal surrounding General Director Paul Dumcke is now considered to be one of the triggers of the global economic crisis .

In 1933 he became a senior public prosecutor at the Wiesbaden Regional Court , and in 1937 at the Cologne Regional Court . Since August 1, 1944, he has been the successor to Willy Rahmel as Attorney General in Braunschweig . His work there was severely affected by the bombing raid on Braunschweig on October 15, 1944 , which also severely affected the judicial buildings. Meißner was suspended as attorney general by the British military government in May 1945 and was appointed director of the Wolfenbüttel correctional facility on July 9, 1945 in agreement with the military government of the British zone of occupation . In 1945, the Social Democrat Curt Staff was appointed as the new General Prosecutor in Braunschweig. In 1933, he was removed from the service as a district judge by the National Socialists in accordance with the provisions of the law to restore the civil service.

Less than a month later he was arrested and interned at the behest of the military government . He was accused of destroying files on death sentences for prisoners of the night and fog (NN) . These were Belgian and French citizens, for whose affairs according to the Allied occupation law there was no jurisdiction of German courts. After the formal, consistent acquittal, the German prosecutor went on appeal . On February 26, 1947, Meißner was acquitted again "for lack of German jurisdiction" by the criminal senate of the Braunschweig Higher Regional Court , chaired by President Bruno Heusinger . The only competent allies complained Meissner before their competent courts and not Meissner was rather in the category V denazified .

Corps student

Meißner in the general committee of the VAC

Since 1901 Meißner was a member of the Corps Rhenania Freiburg . The Corps later awarded him honorary membership. In 1905 he was chairman of the Kösener Congress . In 1909 he became the 20th member of the newly founded Corps Rheno-Guestphalia in Münster. From 1920 to 1924 he sat on the Berlin General Committee of the VAC . From 1921 to 1933 he was editor of the Deutsche Corpszeitung and from 1925 to 1933 first chairman of the VAC board .

Fonts

• Directory of band and corps loop owners 1820–1920: Corps Rhenania zu Freiburg im Breisgau. Englert & Schlosser, Frankfurt a. M. 1920, DNB 361212445 .
• with Fritz Nachreiner: Handbook of the German Corps Student. Publishing house of the Deutsche Corpszeitung, Frankfurt a. M. 1925, OCLC 162696316 .

literature

• Linden: Obituary for Werner Meißner. Deutsche Corpszeitung, Vol. 63, No. 5 (October 1962), pp. 238–240.
• Rudolf Wassermann : Justice through the ages. (with attorneys general and judicial officers). Festschrift of the Braunschweig Higher Regional Court, Braunschweig 1989, ISBN 3-926701-07-2 .

Web links

• Werner Meißner (VfcG)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The German menetekel of the world economic crisis ( memento of August 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on archive.is
2. ↑ ^{a b} Kösener Corp lists 1960 35 /675; 117/20 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Hermann Kreth	VAC chairman 1925–1933	Max Blunck