Erwin Bumke, Polish-German jurist and politician (born 1874)

Erwin Bumke

German Nazi politician

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…