Berchtesgaden District Court

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The Berchtesgaden District Court was a district court founded in Berchtesgaden in 1862 , which was responsible for the Berchtesgaden district office established in the same year and, from 1939, for the Berchtesgaden district. It was dissolved together with the Bad Reichenhall District Court in 1975 as part of the regional reform in Bavaria . Both districts were transferred to the district court of Laufen in December 1975 , the area of ​​responsibility of which has since extended over the newly formed district of Berchtesgadener Land in 1972 .

The Berchtesgaden District Court still had its first seat together with the Berchtesgaden District Office in the former court judge's house and from 1868 until its dissolution in 1975 in a part of the Franciscan monastery in Berchtesgaden.

Known processes

Court decisions on prominent Nazi representatives and their relatives

The district court of Berchtesgaden officially declared Martin Bormann dead on March 10, 1954. The discovery of the body in 1972 confirmed this decision.

By decision of the District Court of Berchtesgaden on October 25, 1956 (II 48/52), the time of Adolf Hitler's death was set as "April 30, 1945, 3:30 p.m.". The time of death of Eva Braun , who was married to Eva Hitler at the time , was determined by a decision of the Berchtesgaden District Court of January 17, 1957 (Ref .: II 2/57) to April 30, 1945, 3:28 p.m. This means that her official time of death is two minutes before Hitler's.

The Berchtesgaden District Court was also involved in the dispute over Adolf Hitler's legacy .
In a judgment of the Munich District Court on February 17, 1960, Paula Hitler was awarded two thirds of her brother's estate. However, she died a few months later, in June 1960, at the age of 64. The Free State of Bavaria was responsible as the administrator of the inheritance, as Hitler was registered with his residence there. For this reason, the copyrights to Hitler's “ Mein Kampf ” were transferred to the state of Bavaria , with the exception of the USA. It has been estimated that royalties could potentially amount to 20 million euros.
After the death of Paula Hitler, the legacy passed to the two children of her half-sister Angela Hammitzsch by a court order of the Berchtesgaden District Court on October 25, 1960: Leo Raubal and Elfriede Hochegger. Neither they nor their relatives following them in the line of succession have litigated against the Free State of Bavaria, for example to obtain the copyrights to “ Mein Kampf ” and the royalties resulting from it.

Examination of witnesses to the Eichmann trial

As part of the Eichmann trial , Theodor Horst Grell was heard as a defense witness - Eichmann's defense attorney was Robert Servatius - on June 14, 1961 before the Berchtesgaden District Court, since Grell was domiciled there. At that time Grell described himself as a retired lawyer. Grell also stated that the testimony given at the Nuremberg trials in 1948 was untrue in that all the blame was placed on the Nazi officials, who were dead or presumably dead at the time.

District Court Boards

All board members of the former Berchtesgaden District Court are listed below with their respective titles, as far as known:

  • 1862–1893: Ignatz Freiherr von Barth-Hamating, district judge and chief magistrate
  • 1893–1909: Georg Martin, Higher Regional Court Councilor
  • 1909–1929: Eckhart Freiherr von Aufseß, District Court Councilor
  • 1929–1929: Josef Albertus, from April 1 to October 31, 1929 as District Court Judge
  • 1929–1930: Heinrich Stephanus
  • 1930–1932: Hermann Weinkauff (1894–1981), chief magistrate, later first president of the Federal Court of Justice .
  • 1932–1937:? Strebel
  • 1937–1963: Heinrich Stephanus
  • 1963–1975: Oswald Senft

Trivia

Rudolf Müller (politician, 1912) (1912–2009), who later became the district administrator of the Berchtesgaden and Berchtesgadener Land districts , began his career in the early 1940s as a trainee lawyer at the Berchtesgaden District Court.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Hellmut Schöner (ed.), A. Helm : Berchtesgaden in the course of time. Reprint from 1929. Association for local history d. Berchtesgadener Landes. Berchtesgadener Anzeiger and Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1973, pp. 6-8.
  2. ↑ a b c Hellmut Schöner (ed.): Berchtesgaden in the course of time. Supplementary volume I, Association for Local Studies d. Berchtesgadener Landes, Verlag Berchtesgadener Anzeiger and Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-87490-528-4 , pp. 53-54
  3. ↑ As part of the regional reform in Bavaria, the law on the organization of ordinary courts in the Free State of Bavaria (GerOrgG) of April 25, 1973 (GVBl p. 189) came into force for the courts .
  4. ^ Draft law of the state government on the organization of the ordinary courts in the Free State of Bavaria (GerOrgG) of February 14, 1973, LT-Drs. 7/3763 (PDF; 1.6 MB)
  5. ↑ Katja Anslinger, Burkhard Rolf: The case of Martin Bormann . Institute for Forensic Medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, PDF document, accessed on February 18, 2010.
  6. ↑ Bormann's skeleton clearly identified . In: Der Spiegel . No. 19 , 1998, pp. 230 ( online ).
  7. ↑ Sea grave for Nazi bigwig Martin Bormann . Spiegel-online from August 28, 1999, accessed on August 28, 2009
  8. ↑ See also Ulli Kulke on the date and circumstances of Hitler's death : The second death of Adolf Hitler in Die Welt of October 25, 2006
  9. ↑ "Letter from the Bavarian Ministry of Finance to the author", in: Wolfgang Zdral: "Die Hitlers. The unknown family of the Führer ”, Lübbe Verlag, 2008, p. 236
  10. ↑ Dr. hc Hermann Weinkauff ( memento from January 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), online at bundesgerichtshof.de

Coordinates: 47 ° 37 ′ 47 ″  N , 13 ° 0 ′ 6 ″  E