Ludwig Stenglein

Stenglein was the son of auditing commissioner Johann Georg Stenglein and his wife Luise, née Stiegler. He had been a member of the Corps Palatia Munich since 1891.^{[2][3][4][5][6]}

He began his legal career as a third-level public prosecutor (Staatsanwalt) in Landshut in 1898. He was promoted to second-level public prosecutor in Passau in 1901. In 1905, he became a judge (Landgerichtsrat) at the regional court in Ansbach. By 1913, he had advanced to the position of senior district judge (Oberamtsrichter) in Nuremberg, where he became a local court judge (Amtsgerichtsrat) in 1919.

In 1923, Stenglein was appointed as the supervising senior public prosecutor (dienstaufsichtsführender erster Staatsanwalt) in Munich. He moved to Bamberg in 1926 to serve as president of the regional court (Landgerichtspräsident). By 1928, he had returned to Munich as president of the Munich I Regional Court. In 1933, he was appointed senate president (Senatspräsident) at the Bavarian Supreme Court [de] (Bayerisches Oberstes Landesgericht) in Munich.^[7]

Stenglein's career ended under political pressure from the new Nazi regime. On 1 January 1934, he was advised to retire because he had intervened with the Ministry of Justice against the politically motivated forced retirement of his colleague, prosecutor Martin Dresse, and had taken responsibility for Dresse's conduct. He was told that if he wished to show solidarity with Dresse, he could leave as well and was at liberty to submit a pension request.^[8] Following his retirement, he and his wife lived in Mehlem, a district of Bad Godesberg, from mid-1935.

Stenglein was a member of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) from 1 May 1933 until August 1936. His membership lapsed because he was removed from the party rolls for failure to pay dues.^[9]

Stenglein died in Cologne-Lindenthal on 12 November 1936. He was initially buried at Cologne's Melaten Cemetery on 14 November 1936. His remains were reinterred at the Nordfriedhof in Munich on 30 March 1954.