Willi Geiger (judge)
Willi Geiger ( May 22nd, 1909 in Neustadt on the Wine Route, † 19 January 1994 in Karlsruhe ) was a German jurist, Judge of the Federal Court and judges of the Federal Constitutional Court.
Life
After the " seizure of power" of the Nazis law graduate Geiger joined the SA in 1933 and has been training and public relations officer. Since 1934, he belonged to the Nazi Rechtswahrerbund and the National Socialist People's Welfare. In 1937 he became a member of the Nazi party and rose in 1938 within the SA to the pack leader on.
Geiger worked as a prosecutor at the Special Court Bamberg and secured there in at least five cases, death sentences.
In 1941 he wrote a dissertation on The legal status of the font manager under the Act of October 4, 1933 in which he justified, inter alia, anti-Semitic prohibitions of Jewish journalists. " Has The provision at a stroke the overpowering, folk damaging and culture hurtful influence of the Jewish race on the field of the press removed. " In this connection he has to journalists as equivalent to the career civil servants - literally: " [ ... ] knighted for support of a public service " - and worked out that in this profession is intolerable, who " in his professional or political activity as a threat to people and the state proved " have, in particular by former" activity for the Marxist press ". That the Secretary " in principle, be of Aryan descent " should, had then been derived from Geiger directly from the party program of the NSDAP.
After the end of World War II, he was High Court Judge at the Higher Regional Court Bamberg and in 1949 Head of the Constitutional Referates in the Federal Ministry of Justice. He designed the German Federal Constitutional Court Act in the Ministry. In 1950 he was then appointed to the Federal Court, where he was president of the Senate in 1951. At the same time, he was from 1951 to 1977 Judge of the Federal Constitutional Court. His tenure was the longest of all Constitutional Court judges and was due to a provision by the Federal Constitutional Court, which came from federal courts, could serve until her retirement. In 1954, he was also an honorary professor at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer. However until 1990, he authored over 300 scientific publications.
Geiger was a member of the Catholic Student Association KDSt.V. Aenania Munich and K.D.St.V. Gothia Würzburg.
Effect
Has decisively influenced Geiger about the judgments of the Federal Constitutional Court on the basis Treaty of 31 July 1973 and the decision of the court towards the radical adoption, where he the judgment prepared by vote in his capacity as Rapporteur. He saw ( in connection with his earlier statements - see dissertation) but no need to explain the question of the loyalty of the officials in the liberal rule of law to be biased, but used instead the chance to commit his pre-democratic, authoritarian officials Picture: "The political fiduciary duty - State and loyalty to the constitution - calls for more than just formally correct, uninterested in the rest, cool, inwardly detached attitude towards the state and constitution, "she demanded, namely, that an official " in the State of which he shall serve, will feel at home - right here and now. "
Quotes
"It is for the parties directly involved objectively not possible to calculate the outcome of a dispute. [ ... ] The exact result has become quite unpredictable. [ ... ] One of the relief of the courts to provide supporting Council could be in this state of things: Make no process as possible; the extra- judicial settlement or the Toss does the dispute always faster, cheaper and in doubt as well just like a judgment. "