Academy for German Law

The Academy of German Law was the scientific point of reference for the work on the reorganization and training of the German law for the purposes of National Socialist ideology and instrument of jurisprudential Gleichschaltung of the Company during the period of National Socialism.

The Academy was founded on June 26, 1933 in Munich and proclaimed by the Reich Commissioner for the DC circuit of Justice Hans Frank on the German Jurists of the National Socialist Jurists Association in Leipzig on October 2, 1933. By imperial law of 11 July 1934, she became a public body of the empire, headquartered in Munich.

Organization and tasks

Institutions of the Academy were the President ( until 1942 Hans Frank, 1942-1944 Otto Thierack ), who was appointed by the Chancellor, and the Board, which supported the President in his duties and advised. The Academy consisted of ordinary, extraordinary, promotional and corresponding members. The members were appointed for a term of four years.

Specifically, the task of the Academy was mainly:

The Academy announced the "Journal of the Academy of German Law " out ( as of 1934 ).

Beginning in 1939, the Academy of German Law dealt with the development of a nation Code.

Known members were Frederick Minoux, Hermann Goering, Hans Frank, Roland Freisler, Max Hildebert Boehm, Karl Christian von Loesch, Carl Schmitt, Ernst Hugo Correll, Wolfgang Siebert, Karl Maria Hettlage Friedrich Grimm, Horst Bartholomeyczik, Werner Sombart, Eberhard Schmidt, Hans Würdinger (1903-1989) and others. Employee was the later, many years Secretary of the Interior ( and at the same time, Deputy Prime Minister ) of NRW and President of the German Sports Federation Willi Weyer 1942-1945. Chairman of a " Committee on Police Law" was Werner Order The chairman of the " Committee on Legal Philosophy " had Carl August Emge. The chairman of the " Committee on colonial law " had Axel von Freytagh - Loringhoven.

Your seat, the school had in the building built 1936-1939 by Oswald Bieber House of German Law in Munich, Ludwig Road 28

From the Academy published writings

  • Work reports
  • Yearbook ( 1.1933/34-6/7.1939/40 )
  • The Academy of German Law fonts Group Legal History German rights. Texts and translations
  • Special series of budgetary system

Archival

The files of the Academy, including the personnel files of the members are freely available in the Federal Archives in Berlin light field.

Materials

  • Werner Schubert ( ed.): Academy of German Law 1933-1945. Protocols of the committees. 1986 ff There are protocols available in 20 volumes on various committees with other subcommittees.
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