Anton Baumgartl

Anton Baumgartl (born April 30, 1906 in Zebau , Austria-Hungary , † November 3, 1992 in Regensburg ) was a lawyer , SS-Sturmbannführer and SS judge .

Life

In Prague, Baumgartl studied law at the Charles University in Prague . From July 1, 1932, he worked in the office of the lawyer Friedrich Hassold in Mies . Hassold was a member of the German National Party (DNP) and had a seat in the parliament of Czechoslovakia . Baumgartl and Hassold founded the Grenzlandjugend of the DNP as early as 1931, in which Baumgartl assumed the position of Gauleiter. Baumgartl had been a member of the Sudeten German Party (SdP) since March 25, 1938, and after the Sudetenland was " annexed" to the German Reich , he joined the NSDAP on November 1, 1938 .

Baumgartl worked as an assessor at the German district court in Mies from January 24, 1940. From April 23 to September 29, 1940, he served as a member of the SS with a skull standard in Warsaw . Briefly in Mies, Baumgartl returned to Warsaw on December 15, 1940 with the rank of SS-Untersturmführer and SS reserve judge.

After being promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer, Baumgartl took up a job at the police court in Dresden , and he was also assigned to an SS field court at the front. He was appointed court assessor on March 31, 1941. The promotion to the District Court Council took place formally at the District Court in Mies on March 1, 1943. After the German occupation of Hungary he worked as an SS judge in Budapest .

After the war he was searched internationally in the Alphabetical index of war criminals by the United Nations War Crimes Commission . In the 1960s he worked as a councilor at the district court of Regensburg .

literature

• Československý Svaz Protifašistických Bojovníků: criminals in judges ' robes . Documents on the criminal activities of 230 Nazi judges and prosecutors on the occupied territory of the Czechoslovak Republic who are currently serving in the West German judiciary. Orbis, Prague 1960.
• Norbert Podewin (ed.): Braunbuch - war and Nazi criminals in the Federal Republic and in Berlin (West). With a critical appreciation and a conversation with the head of the working group at the time, Gerhard Dengler . Reprint of the 1968 edition (3rd edition). Edition Ost published by Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1968, ISBN 3-360-01033-7 .