Benno Erhard

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Benno Erhard's candidate poster for the 1980 federal election

Benno Karl Erhard (born February 22, 1923 in Langenschwalbach, today Bad Schwalbach ; † November 1, 2011 ibid) was a German lawyer and politician ( CDU ). From 1983 to 1987 he was Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister of Justice .

education and profession

Benno Erhard, who was a Roman Catholic , was the son of a lawyer . After graduating from high school , he was initially obliged to serve in the Second World War and was taken prisoner by the French, from which he was released in 1946. In 1948/49 he completed an agricultural apprenticeship. He then studied law at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz . In 1956 he passed his second state examination and worked as a lawyer and since 1964 also as a notary .

Erhard had been a member of the Catholic student association VKDSt Hasso-Rhenania Mainz in the CV since 1950 .

Political party

Erhard was a member of the CDU and was from 1962 to 1966 and from 1977 district chairman of the CDU Hessen-West.

MP

Erhard was a member of the Hessian state parliament from 1954 to 1965 . Since 1957 he was also a member of Bad Schwalbach's city ​​council .

From 1965 to 1987 he was a member of the German Bundestag . Erhard was 1969-1994 member of the Judicial Appointments Committee , 1978-1980 Chairman of the Working Group justice and home affairs and from 1980 to 1982 the working group right of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group . From October 4, 1982 to November 3, 1983 Erhard was deputy chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group and from March to November 1983 chairman of the electoral committee.

Benno Erhard has always entered the Bundestag as a directly elected member of the constituency of Limburg or Rheingau-Taunus - Limburg .

Defense attorney in the first Frankfurt Auschwitz trial

During the first Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt from 1963 to 1965, Erhard acted as defense counsel for former SS member Hans Stark . From 1940 to 1943, Stark worked in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp as a block leader and in the camp Gestapo and committed the most serious crimes during this time. He killed countless prisoners on his own initiative and played a leading role in the first gassings with Zyklon B in the main camp. Although Stark was heavily incriminated by testimony during the trial and did not deny the crimes in his closing remarks, Erhard pleaded for acquittal and called the Auschwitz trial in his closing argument a "show trial".

Public offices

On November 3, 1983, he was appointed Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Justice in the Federal Government led by Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl ( Kohl II cabinet ). After the federal election in 1987 , he left office on March 12, 1987.

Honors

literature

  • Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 , p. 241–242 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
  • Jochen Lengemann: MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 122.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Participants in the process. Retrieved June 11, 2020 .
  2. ^ Tape recording of the 1st Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial. Retrieved June 11, 2020 .
  3. ^ Tape recording of the 1st Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial. Retrieved June 11, 2020 .
  4. ^ Tape recording of the 1st Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial. Retrieved June 11, 2020 .
  5. ^ Tape recording of the 1st Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial. Retrieved June 11, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 71, April 11, 1973.
personal data
SURNAME Erhard, Benno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Erhard, Benno Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Langenschwalbach
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 2011
Place of death Bad Schwalbach