Wilhelm Groh

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Wilhelm Groh (born August 13, 1890 in Darmstadt , † January 15, 1964 in Karlsruhe ) was a German law scholar and university professor. From 1933 to 1937 he was rector of Heidelberg University .

Life

Wilhelm Groh was the son of a coal merchant. He finished his school years with the Abitur and in 1909 began studying philosophy at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau , where he was active in the Corps Suevia Freiburg in June . After two semesters he switched to law and finished his studies in 1913 with the first state examination in law. In 1915 he became an assessor . From 1915 to 1918 he did military service. After the end of the war he passed the second state examination and was awarded a doctorate in January 1917 at the University of Giessen with a dissertation on inheritance and arrears. jur. PhD . After passing the second state examination in law, he worked as a labor judge in Dortmund . He then worked as a research assistant at the University of Giessen busy and habilitated there in 1922 with a paper on the right of association .

He then taught at the University of Giessen, initially as a private lecturer and from 1924 as a regular associate professor. In April 1927 he moved to Heidelberg University as a scheduled associate professor, where he was appointed personal professor in 1928 and at the end of September 1933 full professor for labor, civil and civil procedural law. Groh was dean of the law faculty in 1930/31 and again in 1933 .

Groh had been a member of the SA since 1933 . In 1937 he also joined the NSDAP . He was also a member of the Nazi teachers' association and district chairman of the Nazi legal guardian association .

In October 1933 he became rector of the University of Heidelberg and held this office until March 1937. He immediately appointed other National Socialists to important university offices and changed the majority in the university's senate. He also switched the science faculty into line and pushed supporters of the regime such as August Seybold through against politically neutral applicants. The famous Heidelberg asparagus meal also falls during his term of office, during which he, as rector, accepted the Saxon-Prussians' apology after disturbances during a "peace speech" broadcast by Adolf Hitler on the radio.

From spring 1937 to 1941 he was full-time (initially under Otto Wacker ) deputy director and consultant at the science department in the Reich Ministry of Education . At the beginning of October 1939 he was appointed full professor at the University of Berlin . After a visiting professorship in Budapest , Groh worked again as a part-time advisor in the Reich Ministry of Education from 1942 to 1945.

At the end of the war, Groh was bombed out and released from his position as a professor. In the denazification process , he was classified as "exonerated". From 1948 he lived with his wife in Karlsruhe. He died on January 15, 1964.

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  1. ^ Klaus Rüther, list of members of the Corps Suevia zu Freiburg im Breisgau 1815-2010 , Freiburg 2010, p. 135
  2. ^ A b Wolfgang U. Eckart , Volker Sellin , Eike Wolgast The university management , in this. (Ed.) The University of Heidelberg under National Socialism . Heidelberg, Springer 2006, pp. 5-55, pp. 15f.
  3. ↑ a b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 202
  4. ^ Ute Deichmann botany and zoology , in: Wolfgang U. Eckart, Volker Sellin, Eike Wolgast (eds.) The University of Heidelberg under National Socialism . Heidelberg, Springer 2006, pp. 1193-1211, here p. 1209
  5. ↑ Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon for National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , p. 64
personal data
SURNAME Groh, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Groh, Jakob Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1964
Place of death Karlsruhe