Alfred Zmeck

Alfred Zmeck (born February 27, 1899 in Vienna ; † 1971 ) was an Austrian-Czechoslovakian lawyer and judge at the People's Court in Berlin .

During the First World War he served in the Austrian army . After the end of the war he took the citizenship of Czechoslovakia . After studying law in Prague , he established himself as a lawyer.

Politically he was active from 1919 to 1930 as a member of the German National Party . On November 1, 1939, he joined the NSDAP ( membership no. 6.885.511) and was accepted into the German judicial service in the same year. At his place of work in Nuremberg , he was an investigating judge at the People's Court from January 8, 1941, and became an assistant judge there on November 1, 1941. From autumn 1942, at the latest, he was involved in drafting death sentences as a judge at the People's Court.

After the end of the Second World War , the Extraordinary People's Court in Budweis sentenced him to forced labor for a period of twenty years. During his imprisonment his family received financial support in accordance with the pension payments at the time in accordance with Article 131 of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany .

After he was released from prison in 1955, he too could receive a transitional salary. When it became known that he had illegally participated in many death sentences while he was serving at the People's Court, he was refused pension payments on July 18, 1961. All objections to this decision were rejected with the judgment (Az .: 242 III 65) of the Bavarian Administrative Court of April 28, 1967. There is no evidence as to whether Zmeck was ever prosecuted in Germany.

credentials

• Heinz Hillermeier (Ed.): On behalf of the German people - death sentences of the People's Court . Darmstadt 1980
• Günther Wieland : That was the People's Court . Berlin 1989.