Dr. Richard Katzenstein - President of the Senate at the Higher Regional Court of Celle

Dr. Richard Katzenstein (1878-1942) had been president of the senate (equivalent to a present-day chairman of the senate) at the Higher Regional Court of Celle since 1929. In 1933, the then president of the Higher Regional Court pleaded with the Prussian Ministry of Justice for his removal, or alternatively his transfer to a district court as a simple judge, because the people of Celle could not stand a Jewish chairman of the senate. Katzenstein was then initially transferred to the Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg district court. He was only able to work there for one day because the NSDAP staged a crowd in front of his new apartment and the local police refused him any protection. He was immediately suspended and forced to retire. Katzenstein and his family managed to flee to Palestine.

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