- Erwin Bumke
Erwin Konrad Eduard Bumke (7 July 1874 in Stolp,
Pomerania , nowadaysSłupsk ,Poland – 20 April 1945 inLeipzig ) was the last president of the "Reichsgericht",Germany 's old ImperialCourt .Bumke's family background was Pomeranian
middle class . His father was a doctor and his mother a factory owner's daughter. His brotherOswald Bumke was one of the twentieth century's leadingpsychiatrist s.After studying in
Freiburg , Leipzig,Munich ,Berlin andGreifswald , Bumke began to work in 1907 for the Reich Justice Bureau, the later Reich Justice Ministry.As leader of Department II (criminal cases), he prepared, among other things, the Reichstag drafts for a new criminal code in 1927, which, of course, never saw the light of day. In 1930, Erwin Bumke became president of the International Criminal Law and Prison Commission. In 1929 Bumke became "Reichsgericht" president. Under his leadership, the Imperial Court declared on 25 October 1932 that the temporary removal of "Land" ministers' authority by a Reich Commissar (see
Preußenschlag ) was valid.Bumke would have been the Reich President's deputy under a law passed in December 1932, had the latter suffered a handicap or death; however, no such incapacitation on
Paul von Hindenburg 's part was ever shown to be the case. In the time of theThird Reich , Bumke was responsible for a whole series of unfair sentences, for instance, the judicial murder ("Justizmord") perpetrated againstEwald Schlitt in 1942. For this reason, Erwin Bumke's portrait is not to be found among those of former "Reichsgericht" Presidents at theBundesgerichtshof inKarlsruhe . Two days after the Americans marched into Leipzig, on 20 April 1945 – coincidentallyAdolf Hitler 's birthday – Bumke committed suicide.Works
* "Hat die erfüllte Resolutivbedingung dingliche Kraft?", Greifswalder
Dissertation 1896
* "Deutsches Gefängniswesen. Ein Handbuch", Berlin 1928.
* "Gerichtsverfassungsgesetz und Strafprozeßordnung. Mit Nebengesetzen in der vom 13. Januar 1927 geltenden Fassung; Textausgabe mit einer Einführung in die Vorschriften der Novelle vom 27. Dezember 1926", Berlin 1927.
* "Zwei Entscheidungen zu Art. 48 der Reichsverfassung", Berlin 1932.Literature
* Kolbe, Dieter: "Reichsgerichtspraesident Dr. Erwin Bumke. Studien zum Niedergang des Reichsgerichts und der deutschen Rechtspflege", Karlsruhe 1975. ISBN 3-8114-0026-6
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