Clemens von Jagow

Clemens Eugen Matthias von Jagow (born February 14, 1903 in Garches near Paris; † July 9, 1993 in Lübeck ) was President of the Lübeck Regional Court from 1956 to 1968.

Life

Clemens von Jagow was a son of Eugen von Jagow (1849-1905).

Jagow joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 . In 1937 he was appointed regional judge in Lübeck. The President of the Regional Court, Günther Rischau, attested that he was busy as a party judge who would stand on the ground of the movement . After the start of the war, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht from September 2, 1939 to July 1, 1940 .

After leaving the Wehrmacht, he took up a position as an assessor at the special court in Kiel on February 16, 1942 . He was then appointed assistant judge at the Kiel Higher Regional Court, and from July 1942 he also worked as a personnel officer for the President of the Higher Regional Court, Karl Martin . Jagow was considered a "special favorite" of both the NSDAP and Martins. The British military government ordered in July 1945 that he had to leave the judicial service.

After he was classified as a " fellow traveler " in the course of the denazification in July 1948 , he was able to take up a position in the judicial service again on the recommendation of the Higher Regional Court President Gottfried Kuhnt . In the course of the so-called "review" in December 1948, he was called "exonerated". State Secretary Praetorius in the Ministry of Justice of Schleswig-Holstein advocated a position in the judicial service with the British that would have corresponded to the previous conditions in the Nazi regime.

Jagow was able to return to the judiciary on March 1, 1949, as a district judge for life. On the basis of a decision by Justice Minister Rudolf Katz , Jagow was confirmed as district court director on January 1, 1950. The then Justice Minister Waldemar Kraft appointed Jagow to the Ministry of Justice in 1952 to take over the personnel department, which he headed until 1956. However, Jagow had assured himself that he could become president of the district court if this position were no longer filled.

As a result of this assurance he was able to serve as President of the District Court in Lübeck on October 1, 1956, until 1968. During this term of office he was elected in 1959 as chairman of the regional association of judges' associations in Schleswig-Holstein, with which he also had a seat on the board of the German Judges Association .

Jagow is considered a possible accomplice in the so-called Heyde / Sawade affair. The psychiatrist Werner Heyde , who was wanted by the police for his involvement in the National Socialist murders of the sick, the T4 campaign , had prepared expert reports for Schleswig-Holstein courts under the false name Fritz Sawade between 1952 and 1959 . Several members of the judiciary were aware of Sawade's true identity. After Heyde's arrest in November 1959, no investigations into Jagow took place.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ This assessment in: Klaus-Detlef Godau-Schüttke: The Heyde / Sawade affair. How lawyers and medical professionals covered the Nazi euthanasia professor Heyde after 1945 and remained unpunished. Nomos-Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 2001, ISBN 3-7890-7269-9 , p. 117.
2. ^ Godau-Schüttke, Heyde / Sawade affair , pp. 117ff.

literature

• Norbert Podewin (ed.), Braunbuch - War and Nazi criminals in the Federal Republic and Berlin (West) , reprint from 1968, Berlin 2002
• Klaus-Detlev Godau-Schüttke: Denazification of judges and public prosecutors of the special court Altona / Kiel. In: Robert Bohn , Uwe Danker (Hrsg.): Standgericht der Inner Front. The special court Altona / Kiel 1932-1945. Hamburg 1998.
• Genealogical manual of the nobility , volume 106 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1994, ISSN  0435-2408