Friedrich Litten

Fritz Julius Litten ( born February 22, 1873 in Elbing, † February 1940 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) was a German lawyer and university professor in Königsberg.

Life

Born as the son of Joseph Litten, the head of the Jewish community in Königsberg (1899-1906), and his wife Marie, sister of Ludwig Lichtheim, Fritz Litten was Protestant. He went to high school in Elbing, Königsberg and Hohenstein. After leaving school in 1891 he studied law at the Universities of Leipzig, Freiburg and Königsberg. In 1894 he passed the state examination. In 1895 he received his PhD at the Friedrich -University Halle Dr. iur ..

He then served as a one-year volunteer in the Prussian army. The first part of graduating, he attended in Halle. At the same time, he specialized in philosophy of law and civil law. For the second part of the clerkship Litten moved to the Oberlandesgericht Konigsberg, where he 1900 State Examination took off.

In 1903 he habilitated in hall of Roman Law and German Civil Law. Reported in agricultural law, Litten was 1906 Associate Professor and in 1908 Full Professor of Roman Law and Property Law at the Albertus University. As a reserve officer, he took part in the First World War. In the Ypres Salient wounded and awarded the Iron Cross 1st class, he was dismissed as captain.

The lectures of the national-conservative high school teacher enjoyed lively popular. In his house frequented the tops of the Konigsberg Company. In 1925/26 he was rector of the Albertus University.

After 1933, removed from office by the Nazis, Litten moved to Berlin. The ISK - exile community helped the Litten to flee to London. Supported by the Commitee for non- aryan Christians of the Church of England was able to accommodate him as a guest in the Thompson Memorial Home in Belfast in Northern Ireland. He died of a second flu.

The marriage to Irmgard Litten born Wüst came from three sons, including Hans Litten, who died in 1938 at the Dachau concentration camp.