Heinz Düx

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Heinz Düx (born April 24, 1924 in Marburg ; † February 3, 2017 ) was a German lawyer , journalist and legal scholar .

Life

Düx was born the son of the master mechanic Heinrich Düx and his wife Sophie (née Beutel). After attending primary school and graduating from high school in 1942 (today Martin Luther School) , he studied law at the Philipps University in Marburg from 1942 to 1948 . In 1944/1945 his studies were interrupted due to the obligation to work in the Marburg depot and going into hiding in the Vogelsberg district in order to avoid being forced to join the Volkssturm . After 1945 he was a member of the denazification committee of the law faculty at the Philipps University in Marburg, together with the Romance scholar Werner Krauss and the economist Joachim Grunau .

He passed the 1st state examination on November 21, 1946 with the grade examination “good”. In January 1948 he received his doctorate under Heinrich Freiherr von Minnigerode with a thesis on the subject of "The free trade union movement, its nature and its influence on legal development from the foundation to the outbreak of World War I". Düx passed the 2nd state law examination on November 24, 1950 with the grade examination “good”. As a lawyer or judge in the Hessian judicial service, Düx was busy all his life with the legal processing of the crimes of German fascism .

Düx became a judge in 1954. Since he had opposed the appointment of a former Hitler Youth leader as presiding judge in a reparation chamber , he was disciplined. As a result, he fell on the Hessian Attorney General Fritz Bauer . From 1960 to 1963 he was an examining magistrate in political criminal matters at the Frankfurt am Main regional court, dealing with the Auschwitz and euthanasia proceedings, the investigations of which Bauer led. Since Düx was not granted permission to visit the Auschwitz concentration camp for nine months, which was requested in this context, Düx visited the crime scene privately at his own expense. Düx heard 200 witnesses and was able to complete the preliminary examinations after only one year, on October 19, 1962, so that the Auschwitz trials could be carried out from 1963 to 1965. The Hessian Justice Minister Karl Hemfler appointed Düx on December 24, 1970 as Senate President at the Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt am Main . He took over a civil senate, which mainly dealt with reimbursement and compensation issues for the Nazi victims. In 1987, Düx was summoned as an expert to the Interior Committee of the German Bundestag when the expansion of the group of persons entitled to compensation under the Federal Compensation Act (BEG) was being discussed. He complained about the discrimination against many groups of victims. Düx's recommendations were not followed.

Düx was co-founder together with Wolfgang Abendroth and Helmut Ridder and from 1973 to 1991 co-editor and author of the journal Demokratie und Recht . As a critical commentator on West German history and the present, Düx also published articles and a. in the anti-fascist weekly newspaper “ die tat ” and in the “bulletin” of the Franconian Circle headed by Renate Riemeck (Free Association of Members of Intellectual Professions in the Federal Republic, Member of the World Federation of Scientists) and in book publications. Translations are available in English, French and Polish.

In 1973 Düx was a participant in the World Congress of Peace Forces in Moscow. In 1975 and 1982, the Hessian CDU unsuccessfully initiated disciplinary proceedings in the state parliament with the aim of impeachment. In 1987, 1989 and 1995, Düx was heard as an expert on the legal and interior committee of the German Bundestag. In 2013, Düx was a speaker at the 2nd symposium “Responsibility of Jurists” in the jury court room of the Nuremberg-Fürth regional court as part of the conference “The Rosenburg. The Federal Ministry of Justice and its handling of the past ”.

Düx's estate is kept in the Marburg city archive.

Memberships

From 1945, Düx was a member of the KPD , as well as a member of the trade union ÖTV today ver.di , the SPD , the Association of the Persecuted of the Nazi Regime / Association of Antifascists (VVN / BdA), the Fédération Internationale des Résistants (FIR) and the association democratic lawyers (VdJ) . In the VVN / BdA and the VdJ he was a member of the presidium and the board of directors.

Since his son Henry Düx (1947–2007), who temporarily worked in Rupert von Plottnitz's office, he also became a lawyer.

Fonts (selection)

  • The protectors of the willing executors. Political interior views of the Federal German judiciary . Published by Friedrich-Martin Balzer, Bonn 2004, ISBN 3-89144-354-4 , 2nd edition 2013.
  • Justice and Democracy. Claim and Reality in West Germany after 1945 . Collected Writings 1948–2013. Published by Friedrich-Martin Balzer, Pahl-Rugenstein, Bonn 2013, ISBN 978-3-89144-467-2 .
  • The complete work . Published by Friedrich-Martin Balzer, CD-ROM, Bonn 2013, ISBN 978-3-89144-504-4 .

literature

  • Sylvia Düx, “A good friend”. In: My father. Women talk about the first man in their life. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1979, pp. 33-39.
  • Friedrich-Martin Balzer: Against German injustice. The lawyer, publicist and anti-fascist Heinz Düx campaigned against professional bans and armaments. As examining magistrate in the first Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt, he wrote legal history . In: Junge Welt . No. 207 , September 6, 2013, p. 10–11 ( online [accessed September 6, 2013]).
  • Friedrich-Martin Balzer (Ed.): Heinz Düx, Justice and Democracy. Claim and Reality in West Germany after 1945. Collected Writings (1948–2013) . Pahl-Rugenstein Verlag, Bonn 2013.

Movie

  • The lone fighter. Judge Heinz Düx. A film by Wilhelm Rösing / Bremen. Commissioned by the Historisches Museum Frankfurt / Bibliothek der Alten © 2011, 79 minutes Wilhelm Rösing Film

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Heinz Düx: Obituary notice: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved February 13, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Marburg City Archives - inventory N 5 Düx, Heinz. In: Archive Information System Hessen. Retrieved March 28, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Düx, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, journalist and legal scholar
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg
DATE OF DEATH 3rd February 2017