Alfred Strauss

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Alfred Strauss , also Strauss (born August 30, 1902 in Munich ; † May 24, 1933 in Dachau concentration camp ) was a German lawyer .

Live and act

Strauss was the son of the lawyer and Munich city councilor for the DDP Adolf Strauss and his wife Margarete. After attending school, he studied law at the Universities of Göttingen and Munich . 1924 doctorate he in Goettingen to the Dr. rer. pole. and in 1931 in Halle as Dr. jur. After passing the Great State Examination, he lived as a lawyer in Munich from 1928. His address was there at Goethestrasse 43.

A few weeks after the National Socialists came to power on January 30, 1933 and immediately after the Bavarian government came under the control of the NSDAP in March 1933 , Strauss was taken into protective custody on March 27, 1933 for "unscrupulous professional practice" . Reinhard Weber points out that this measure was “an act of revenge by the new Justice Minister Frank ”, with which Strauss is said to have had professional clashes in the past.

On April 21, the Bavarian Political Police asked whether Strauss should continue to be held in protective custody, as "a criminal act [...] could not be proven".

On May 11, 1933, Strauss was transferred to the Dachau concentration camp . There he was repeatedly mistreated and finally shot by SS man Johann Kantschuster on May 24, 1933 . According to the report of the investigating public prosecutor's office, Kantschuster gave the following description of the incident:

“He himself [Kantschuster] had to resign; Strauss went further. Suddenly Strauss jumped away to get into the bushes about 6 m from the mule path. When he noticed this, he had sent shots at the fugitive from a distance of about 8 m 2, whereupon Strauss collapsed dead.

The investigation by the public prosecutor, headed by Chief Public Prosecutor Karl Wintersberger, revealed death from cerebral palsy as a result of a bullet and a bullet in the right hemisphere. In addition, numerous traces of severe abuse were found when the body was opened (welts in the lumbar and buttock areas and blood underflow on the left abdominal wall). Since Kantschuster's allegations that Strauss had tried to escape were not very credible due to numerous circumstantial evidence - Strauss was only wearing slippers at the time of his alleged escape - an investigation was initiated against him. Since the Political Police under Heinrich Himmler seized the files, further official acts were no longer possible. The proceedings were finally discontinued due to the Bavarian ordinance on granting impunity of August 2, 1933.

Strauss' mother was deported east with the first Munich Jews on November 20, 1941 . On November 25, 1941, she and several thousand other people were shot in Kaunas , Lithuania .

Strauss' killing was discussed in the Nuremberg trial of the major war criminals , and the report was put on record as Document US-450.

After the end of the Second World War , eleven investigations were initiated against the murderer von Strauss, Johann Kantschuster, who was missing at the end of the war, including those relating to crimes in the Dachau concentration camp.

Fonts

  • The development of the stock corporation in Bavaria up to 1871 , Göttingen 1924. (Dissertation)

literature

  • Reinhard Weber: The Fate of Jewish Lawyers in Bavaria after 1933 . Munich 2006, p. 53 f.
  • Hans Lamm: From Jews in Munich. Munich 1958, p. 339
  • Helga Pfoertner: Living with history. Memorials, memorials, places of remembrance for the victims of National Socialism in Munich 1933–1945. Volume 2, Munich 2003, p. 16, p. 77
  • Simone Ladwig-Winter, Federal Bar Association : Lawyer without rights. Fate of Jewish lawyers in Germany after 1933. Berlin 2007, p. 103
  • The trial of the major war criminals before the International Military Tribunal. Vol. 3/4, Nuremberg 1947, p. 213
  • Oskar Maria Graf: Speeches and essays from exile. Munich 1989, p. 36
  • Complaint by the Public Prosecutor of the RA's murder. Strauss (Munich) , printed by: Hans Lamm (Hrsg.): Von Juden in München: a memorial book . Munich: Ner-Tamid-Verl. 1958 p. 339

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard Weber: The fate of Jewish lawyers in Bavaria after 1933 , 2006, p. 53.
  2. ↑ The Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, November 14, 1945 - October 1, 1946. Minutes of the trial. Nuremberg 1947, Volume 3, p. 213
  3. ↑ Edith Raim: West German investigations and trials on the Dachau concentration camp and its satellite camps , in: Ludwig Eiber , Robert Sigl (ed.): Dachauer Trials - NS crimes before American military courts in Dachau 1945 - 1948 , Göttingen 2007, pp. 225f., P. 222
personal data
SURNAME Strauss, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strauss, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1933
Place of death Dachau concentration camp