Alexander Fyodorowitsch Wolchkov

from left: Alexander. F. Woltschkow, IT Nikittschenko and Norman Birkett

Alexander Fjodorowitsch Woltschkow ( Russian Волчков Александр Фёдорович , * 1902 , † 1978 ) was a Soviet lawyer, colonel of the judiciary and deputy Soviet representative at the International Military Tribunal at the Nuremberg trial of the major war criminals .

Life

As Arkadij Poltorak writes in his book The Nuremberg Epilogue , Aleksander Fjodorowitsch was his colleague in the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs. Volchkov was employed in the prosecution for many years and also worked in the Soviet embassy in Great Britain. Since he dealt with questions of international law, he was also active as a lecturer in the pre-war years and found himself, like Poltorak, in the role of an executor of military justice during the Second World War. Thanks to his knowledge in the field of international law and his knowledge of English, Wolchkov got the post of deputy representative of the Soviet Union at the international war tribunal in Nuremberg.

It is also known that Alexander Wolchkov and Iona Nikittschenko always wore military uniforms during the sessions of the tribunal. The other members of the tribunal tried in vain to convince them to put on judge's robes. Both Nikittschenko and Wolchkov responded to the demands that military clothing should be the unique selling point of a judge at the international court. Volchkov as well as Nikittschenko were often referred to as “judges with a hard line” in the course of the trial, as they were among those lawyers who did not accept any compromises.

Wolchkov became a member of the Soviet College of Foreign Justice in the 1960s and 1970s.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans-Christian Täubrich, Dr. Alexander Schmidt: Catalog to Memorium Nuremberg Trials . Ed .: Museums of the City of Nuremberg. Nuremberg 2011, p. 54 .

Web links

Commons : Alexander Volchkov (judge)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files