August Guth

August Guth (born November 19, 1884 in Görlitz , † December 26, 1945 in special camp No. 1 Mühlberg ) was a German judge .

Life

Guth was the son of a Protestant watchmaker. He passed the first state law examination in 1908 with the grade “sufficient”, the second in 1913 with “sufficient”. In 1913 he became a court assessor. In the First World War he was deputy paymaster . From March 24, 1919 to May 31, 1920 he was on leave to work at the settlement office of the Warsaw General Government in Berlin. From March 1921 he was a local judge at the Berlin-Mitte District Court, but he did not start work there until New Year's Day 1923. In 1928 he became a member of the chamber judge . On May 1, 1933 , he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 3,017,600) and was block leader from summer 1935 . On September 1, 1938, he came to the Reich Court . He was in the III. and I. Criminal Senate. On September 28, 1944 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . He nominally returned to the Reichsgericht on April 26, 1945. He was no longer assigned to a Senate.

Honors

• Loyalty Medal for 25 years

literature

• Friedrich Karl Kaul : History of the Reichsgericht. Volume IV: 1933-1945. East Berlin 1971, p. 273.
• Initiative group Lager Mühlberg e. V. (Ed.): Book of the Dead - Special Camp No. 1 of the Soviet NKVD, Mühlberg / Elbe. , Mühlberg / Elbe, 2008, p. 83, ISBN 9783000269998