Wilhelm Menges

Wilhelm Menges (* 13. May 1894 in the Grand-Linden ; † 15. November 1963 in Karlsruhe ) was a German Reichsgerichtsrat and judge at the Federal Court .

Life

Menges, son of a forester, was a Protestant. He took part in the First World War as a lieutenant in the reserve. He passed the first state law examination in 1918 “on the whole good” and the second in 1921 “quite good”. On May 23, 1921 he was appointed court assessor in the Hessian civil service. In October 1921 he was appointed Ministerialamtmann with the designation Justizrat in the Hessian Ministry of Justice. In December 1928 he was appointed permanent laborer, leaving the official title of Justice Council. In August 1930 he was promoted to lecturing council with the title of senior judicial councilor. On April 1, 1934, he became district court director and was left in the justice department of the Hessian State Ministry. For the New Year 1935 he was transferred to the Darmstadt Higher Regional Court as an assistant judge . Three months later he came to the Reichsgericht as an assistant judge . He was appointed Reich judge on April 1, 1937. There he worked in the Second Criminal Senate. On December 1, 1939, he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 7,287,022). At the end of January 1940 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht as a lieutenant in the reserve and promoted to captain in 1941. After Friedrich Karl Kaul , he was assigned to the 2nd Civil Senate in the cast lists from 1941 . In the Federal Republic of Germany he came to the Federal Court of Justice on May 29, 1953. Until his retirement on May 31, 1962, he was again active in the 2nd Criminal Senate.

Honors

• April 20, 1938 Silver Medal of Honor

Fonts

• Indebted self-defense and indebted emergency , Diss. Jena 1921.

literature

• Klaus-Detlev Godau-Schüttke : The Federal Court of Justice - Justice in Germany , Berlin 2005, p. 159; ISBN 3-922654-66-5 .
• Friedrich Karl Kaul , History of the Reichsgericht , Volume IV (1933–1945), East Berlin 1971, p. 282.