Auditor (military)
Auditors were members of the military justice system.
Germany
First mentioned in Gustav Adolf's Martial Law, the military judicial officers in Germany had to conduct the civil and court martial investigations, to act as prosecutors , defense lawyers or judges in court and court martial and to serve as a legal adviser to the military commanders in general .
There were garrison , division , corps , field, and governorate auditors . Otto von Oehlschläger was General Auditor of the Prussian Army and the Imperial Navy before he became the second President of the Imperial Court . Ferdinand Perels was an auditor for the Imperial Admiralty .
From 1900 the auditors were called the judge- martial and senior judge-judge. According to the Reich Military Law Section 7, Paragraph 1 of May 2, 1874, only those who had acquired the qualification to hold the office of judge in one of the German federal states could become judges .
Austria-Hungary
In the Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces , the designation was auditor with the preceding rank. (e.g. lieutenant colonel auditor)
Switzerland
Nowadays, the public prosecutors in the Swiss military justice system still carry the title of auditor .
Auditors and Literature
Christian Dietrich Grabbe , the playwright from Vormärz , was an auditor in Detmold for eight years .
The affair of Adolf Hofrichter 1909 in Vienna took Maria Fagyas the template for its filmed novel "The lieutenant and his judges" (New York 1970). A central figure is the captain auditor Kunze.
See also
Individual evidence
literature
- Maren Lorenz , The Wheel of Violence: Military and Civilian Population in Northern Germany after the Thirty Years War (1650-1700) , Cologne a. Weimar 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-11606-4 . On auditing pp. 110–116.