Barbara Just-Dahlmann

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Barbara Just-Dahlmann with Willy Brandt , receiving the Theodor Heuss Medal in 1970

Barbara Just-Dahlmann (born March 2, 1922 in Posen ; † July 27, 2005 in Mannheim ) was a German lawyer and author.

Life

After studying at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , where she was also Erik Wolf's assistant , Barbara Dahlmann received her doctorate in 1944 on the influence of foreign criminal law on the Polish penal code. In 1954 she became a public prosecutor in Mannheim, later a senior public prosecutor.

Due to her knowledge of Polish , Just-Dahlmann, who came from Poznan, was seconded to the Central Office for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes in Ludwigsburg to translate Polish witness statements, and thus gained deep insights into the injustice system of National Socialism. As a result, she sharply criticized the sluggish persecution of Nazi criminals and mild sentences. She became chairwoman of the German-Polish Society in Mannheim and, as a Protestant, was committed to the reconciliation of Christians and Jews. Her speech reached nationwide attention at a conference of the Evangelical Academy Loccum in 1961, in which she described the difficult conditions for prosecuting Nazi perpetrators.

At the German Juristentag in 1968, she was the first female public prosecutor to initiate the discussion on the reform of sexual criminal law with a sensational lecture .

In 1980 she moved to the Schwetzingen district court and became the first woman in Baden-Württemberg to be the director of a district court. For six years she was the federal chairwoman of the Protestant Academic Union in Germany .

Barbara Just-Dahlmann was married to Helmut Just, a judge at the Mannheim Regional Court .

She published several books, some with autobiographical features.

Awards

Barbara Just-Dahlmann was awarded the Theodor Heuss Medal in 1970. In 1980 she received the Moses Mendelssohn Prize , in 1985 the Hedwig Burgheim Medal and in 1989 the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class and the medal of the main commission for the prosecution of Nazi crimes in Warsaw.

Works

  • The Influence of Foreign Criminal Laws on the Polish Criminal Code , Freiburg, 1944.
  • Diary of a public prosecutor , Stuttgart: Radius-Verlag, 1979. ISBN 3-87173-541-8
  • Simon , Stuttgart: Radius-Verlag, 1980. ISBN 3-87173-562-0
  • The Creator of the world will probably have to allow it: Jewish. Poetry after Auschwitz , Stuttgart: Radius-Verlag, 1980. ISBN 3-87173-571-X
  • From all over the world: Israel - promise, fate, etc. Future , Stuttgart: Radius-Verlag, 1982. ISBN 3-87173-609-0
  • And said to the judges: See what you do ...: human. Stories , Freiburg: Herder, 1983. ISBN 3-451-19977-7
  • The compass of my heart: Encounter with Israel , Freiburg: Herder, 1984. ISBN 3-451-20261-1
  • The missing registration certificate or: it is not enough just to do your duty , Freiburg: Herder, 1986. ISBN 3-451-20818-0
  • with Helmut Just: Die Gehilfen: Nazi Crimes and Justice after 1945 , Frankfurt: Athenaeum, 1988. ISBN 3-610-08473-1

Web links

Commons : Barbara Just-Dahlmann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Profile at autoren-bw.de
  2. ^ Dissertation in the catalog of the Freiburg University Library
  3. ↑ Bumke was silent . In: Der Spiegel . No. 51 , 1961 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Reconciliation of the victims? In: Die Zeit , No. 13, 1988
  5. ^ Klaus Laubenthal : Sexual crimes . Berlin 2000, page 6, paragraph 12 and footnote 21; also Werner Sarstedt : Foreword to Barbara Just-Dahlmann: "Diary of a public prosecutor"
  6. ^ Holger Radke, Günter Zöbeley: The courts in the district court district of Mannheim . (PDF; 755 kB) In: Michael Lotz (Red.), Werner Münchbach (Hrsg.): Festschrift 200 years of Badisches Oberhofgericht - Oberlandesgericht Karlsruhe . Karlsruhe 2003
personal data
SURNAME Just-Dahlmann, Barbara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dahlmann, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Poses
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 2005
Place of death Mannheim