About Erwin Bumke
Erwin Konrad Eduard Bumke was the last president of the Reichsgericht, the supreme civil and criminal court of the German Reich, serving from 1929 to 1945. As such, according to the Weimar Constitution, he should have become acting President of Germany upon the death of Paul von Hindenburg in August 1934, and thus the acting Head of State of Nazi Germany. The Law Concerning the Head of State of the German Reich, passed by the Hitler cabinet, unconstitutionally prevented that by combining the presidency with the chancellorship, making Adolf Hitler the undisputed ruler of Germany. Following the Nazi takeover, Bumke extensively cooperated with the Party in establishing a Verbrecherstaat. He joined the Nazi Party in 1937 and was awarded the Golden Party Badge the next year. His brother Oswald Bumke (1877–1950) became a noted psychiatrist. In 1930, Bumke became president of the International Criminal Law and Prison Commission. Bumke became responsible for several unjust and racist verdicts.
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