Wilhelm Bünger

Wilhelm Rudolf Ferdinand Bunger (* 8. October 1870 in Elsterwerda ; † 21st March 1937 in Leipzig ) was prime minister of Saxony , as a politician of the DVP state representative and judge at the Supreme Court ( Senate President ).

Live and act

The son of the secret government councilor Ferdinand Bünger and his wife Hedwig nee von Saher studied in Heidelberg , Halle and Berlin . In 1892 he entered the Prussian civil service as a trainee lawyer and in 1897 he became a court assessor. In 1902 he came to the public prosecutor's office in Frankfurt am Main. A year later he was seconded to the Reich Attorney General in Leipzig as an unskilled worker . In 1913 he was promoted to chamber judge while remaining with the Reich Attorney General. From 1914 he took part in the First World War and in 1917 he became a captain in the Ober Ost staff . In March 1919 he was appointed Reich Attorney.

Between 1920 and 1931, Bünger was a member of the Saxon state parliament as a member of the German People's Party . From 1924 to 1927 Bünger was Minister of Justice, from February 1929 Minister of Education and from July 3, 1929 to May 6, 1930 Prime Minister of Saxony . The lawyer received an honorary doctorate from the University of Leipzig in 1927. In 1931 he resigned his state parliament mandate and moved to the Reichsgericht in Leipzig as President of the Senate . There he led, among other things, the negotiation in the process of the Reichstag fire . In order to do justice to the expectations of the NSDAP, he violated the procedural rules of the time, among other things by excluding the accused from the hearing. He died in office.

Bünger had been a member of the Fridericiana Halle choir since 1890 and later also a member of the Gotia Göttingen choir.

From 1926 to 1932 he lived with his wife, Doris Hertwig-Bünger , a member of the DVP in the state parliament and in the Reichstag , in the villa at Hoflößnitzstrasse 72 in Oberlößnitz (today a district of Radebeul ).

literature

• Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 .
• Adolf Lobe : Fifty Years of the Reich Court on October 1, 1929 , Berlin 1929, p. 403.
• André Thieme : Wilhelm Bünger: Government on feet of clay (1929/30) , In: Andreas Wagner , Mike Schmeitzner : Of power and powerlessness. Saxon Prime Ministers in the Age of Extremes 1919–1952 , Beucha 2006, pp. 220–240.
• André Thieme: Wilhelm Rudolf Ferdinand Bünger (1870–1937) , In: Sächsische Justizgeschichte. Saxon Justice Ministers 1831 to 1950 , pp. 117–141 ( online version , PDF file, 14.8 MB).

Web links

• Bünger, Wilhelm in the files of the Reich Chancellery. Weimar Republic online.
• Literature by and about Wilhelm Bünger in the Saxon Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ " Academic Honors "  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Webpage of the Leipzig University Archives, accessed on May 28, 2011.  
2. ↑ Ingo Müller: Terrible Jurists , Berlin 2020, p. 44.
3. ↑ Paul Meißner (Ed.): Alt-Herren-Directory of the German Singers. Leipzig 1934, p. 158.