Wilhelm Walther (lawyer)
Wilhelm Walther (born September 9, 1887 in Weilheim an der Teck ; † 1961 ) was a German lawyer and President of the Bavarian Constitutional Court .
Life
The son of a pharmacist from Franconia graduated from high school and studied law from 1905 to 1910 at the universities of Munich, Berlin and Erlangen. After passing both state examinations in law, he joined the Bavarian civil service in 1913 as a court assessor at the Munich II public prosecutor's office. After his participation in the First World War and his release from English captivity at the end of 1919, he worked from 1920 to 1927, first as a public prosecutor and later as a local judge in Kempten . In 1927 he was transferred to Traunstein, where he was promoted to the regional judge in 1931. From 1934 to 1938 he worked as a senior public prosecutor in Kaiserslautern and on March 1, 1938, he came to the Munich II regional court as regional court director . Walther was not a member of the NSDAP , but due to his work as chief prosecutor between 1934 and 1938, on the instructions of the US military government on July 25, 1945, he was temporarily banned from further judicial activity. According to the decision of the Spruchkammer München II a on July 4, 1946, he was classified as not affected by the Law for the Liberation from National Socialism and Militarism (BefrG). After the final termination of his arbitration chamber proceedings on March 10, 1947, he became President of the Senate at the Munich Higher Regional Court on June 1, 1947 and, two years later, on May 1, 1949, President of the Higher Regional Court in Nuremberg . On August 7, 1953, he was elected President of the Bavarian Constitutional Court by the Bavarian State Parliament. He won against the candidate of the CSU-SPD government, the Munich Higher Regional Court President Josef Wintrich . Walther retired on October 1, 1956.
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- Entry "Walther, Wilhelm" in Munzinger Online / Personen - Internationales Biographisches Archiv, ( [1] , accessed on January 13, 2020)
- The minutes of the Bavarian Council of Ministers 1945-1962 The Ehard III cabinet. Protocol No. 118, footnote 62
Individual evidence
- ↑ Werner Reutter: State Constitutional Courts: Development - Structure - Functions. Pp. 60-61
Friedrich Welsch (1947–1953) | Wilhelm Walther (1953–1956) | Ernst Holzinger (1956–1959) | Sigmund Elsäßer (1959–1966) | Georg Bäurle (1966–1973) | Wilhelm Lossos (1973–1980) | Hans Domcke (1980–1985) | Leo Parsch (1985-1992) | Hildegund Holzheid (1992–2001) | Edda Huther (2001-2005) | Karl Huber (2005–2015) | Peter Küspert (since 2015)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Walther, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German judge and President of the Bavarian Constitutional Court |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 9, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weilheim an der Teck |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1961 |