Wilhelm Kregel

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Wilhelm Kregel (born February 20, 1909 in Rümelingen , Luxembourg; † June 3, 1994 in Verden ) was a German judge and sports official. From 1970 to 1974 he was President of the German Sports Association .

Life

Education and legal career

Wilhelm Kregel grew up in Verden. He studied law and received his doctorate in Marburg in 1931 with a civil law thesis on "tenant interference claims against third parties". Then he was a trainee lawyer, assessor and, from 1938, finally a district judge in Hannover . In 1943 he moved to Celle as an appellate judge .

From 1940 until the end of the war he served in the Wehrmacht , most recently as captain of the reserve. He was wounded six times.

Kregel returned to the judiciary in 1947 after serving as a soldier in World War II. From 1951 to 1956 he was a judge at the Federal Court of Justice. As an associate senate judge, he was involved in the judgments of January 7, 1956 (IV ZR 211/55 and IV ZR 273/55), in which Nazi injustice against Sinti and Roma was justified between 1940 and 1943. The reasons for the verdict are cited as an example of continued National Socialist or racist thinking in the Federal German judiciary. In 2015, the BGH President Bettina Limperg spoke of “unjustifiable jurisprudence” in relation to these judgments, for which “one can only be ashamed”.

From 1956 to 1966 Kregel served as President of the Verden Regional Court , then as President of the Celle Higher Regional Court until his retirement .

Gymnast and sports official

Kregel was a member of the gymnastics club in Hanover from 1931 and of the gymnastics community in Osterwieck (Harz) in the summer of 1933 . From 1947 he belonged to the men's gymnastics club in Celle . During his time as a federal judge, in 1953 he co-founded the Academic Gymnastics and Sports Association (ATSV) Karlsruhe .

From 1964 to 1978 Kregel was President of the German Gymnastics Federation and from 1970 to 1974 President of the German Sports Federation. During his term of office, he campaigned for the strengthening of the Federal Committee for Competitive Sport and aimed for greater centralization of top-class sport. He resigned from this post shortly before the German-German sports protocol was concluded in 1974 as part of the domestic policy of détente .

Honors

For his services to sport in Lower Saxony , he was included in the Lower Saxony Sports Honor Gallery of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Adolf Metzner: “What I do, I do completely” - A visit to Dr. Kregel, the President of the German Sports Confederation. In: Die Zeit , September 25, 1970.
  2. ↑ a b c Entry "Kregel, Wilhelm" in Munzinger Online / Personen - Internationales Biographisches Archiv 18/1975 from April 21, 1975, accessed on September 14, 2016.
  3. ^ Federal Court of Justice ruling v. 07.01.1956, Ref .: IV ZR 273/55
  4. ↑ Klaus-Detlev Godau-Schüttke: From denazification to renazification of the judiciary in West Germany. In: forum historiae iuris , June 6, 2001, p. 22, Rn. 93.
  5. ^ President of the Federal Court of Justice Limpert visits the documentation center. Documentation and Cultural Center of German Sinti and Roma, March 13, 2015.
  6. ↑ Arnd Krüger (1975). Sport and politics. From gymnastics father Jahn to state amateur. Hanover: torchbearers
  7. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 43, March 9, 1973.
personal data
SURNAME Kregel, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and sports official
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Rumelange , Luxembourg
DATE OF DEATH June 3, 1994
Place of death Verden