Camille Sachs

Camille Sachs (born May 17, 1880 in Würzburg , † August 4, 1959 in Nuremberg ) was a German lawyer . After the end of the Second World War he was appointed President of the Nuremberg-Fürth Regional Court . Under Prime Minister Hans Ehard , he worked from 1947, first as State Secretary, and later as Acting Head, in the Bavarian State Ministry for Special Tasks.

Life

After studying law at the universities of Würzburg , Berlin and Munich , Sachs worked as a public prosecutor in Pirmasens from 1907 . In 1910 he moved to Aschaffenburg , where he accepted a position as a public prosecutor . From 1914 he worked as a district judge at the Nuremberg District Court . In 1919 he became the second public prosecutor at the Nuremberg Regional Court and later a regional judge.

Camille Sachs belonged to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria , but came from a Jewish family and therefore fell under the provisions of the law for the restoration of the professional civil service . Since Sachs had already been appointed as a civil servant before August 1, 1914, he should have kept his position as a so-called "old civil servant". The Bavarian judicial administration based his dismissal from the judicial service on Section 4 of the Professional Civil Servants Act, the reason for dismissal of “national unreliability”, while at the same time his pension entitlement, which arose after ten years of service and was already reduced by various savings regulations and deductions, was reduced by a quarter. In the following years Sachs made his living as a wood turner, unskilled worker and bricklayer. During the pogrom night of November 9, 1938, members of the SA attacked and injured him in his Nuremberg apartment.

After the end of the war, Sachs was reinstated as a district judge on August 1, 1945. Four months later, on December 1, 1945, he took over as President of the Nuremberg-Fürth Regional Court. Presumably because of his work as chairman of the Spruchkammer , a bomb attempt was made on Sachs in early 1947. As a member of the SPD , he was also a member of the first post-war Nuremberg city council.

As a result of the dismissal of the State Minister Alfred Loritz Sachs was on 15 July 1947, Minister Ludwig Hagenauer in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Ehard State Secretary at the Bavarian State Ministry for Special Affairs and remained until the withdrawal of the SPD from the coalition on September 20, 1947 office. His duties included, in particular, the supervision of the Langwasser internment camp. After Hagenauer's death on July 20, 1949, Sachs temporarily headed the State Ministry for Special Tasks until its dissolution on March 31, 1950 and then took over the management of the liquidation office. He retired on December 31, 1951.

In 1952 he was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit.

His son was the Nuremberg Chief Public Prosecutor Hans Sachs , who was known for his television appearances .

literature

• Erika Bosl: Sachs, Camille. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 656 ( digitized version ).
• House of Bavarian History: History of the Bavarian Parliament 1819–2003.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Section 3 (2) GWBB of April 7, 1933, RGBl. 1933 I pp. 175-177
2. ↑ As nationally unreliable officials who had belonged to democratic or social democratic associations before 1933, Hans Bergemann / Simone Ladwig-Winters: Judges and prosecutors of Jewish origin in Prussia under National Socialism. A documentation , 2004 Cologne, pp. 137f.
3. ^ Lothar Gruchmann: Justice in the Third Reich 1933-1940. Adaptation and submission in the Gürtner era. 2nd Edition. Munich 1990, p. 62.
4. ↑ Gabriel Wetters, Tobias Lotter: Hakennuß and Zirbelkreuz. Right-wing extremism in Augsburg 1945–2000 , issue No. 2/2001 of the series of publications by the Kurt Eisner Association for Civic Education in Bavaria, p. 40.
5. ↑ 1949: Why us if they don't? National Socialist Traps ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2002 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.