Egbert White

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Egbert Weiß (born January 25, 1931 in Berlin ) is a German lawyer . He was a judge at the Supreme Court for over 21 years . He became publicly known for his involvement in criminal proceedings with a political background. For decades he has also worked as a student historian , mainly through student associations .

School and study

White was a student at the Hermann Löns High School in Berlin-Neukölln . During the Second World War , in which his father Herbert Weiß fell as a major in the reserve in 1945 , he was sent to the Kinderlandverschickung boarding schools in West Prussia (1941), Slovakia (1942), Upper Carniola / Slovenia (1943–1944) and Carinthia (1944–1944). 1946). In the post-war period he went to what would later become the Albert Schweitzer School (Berlin-Neukölln) until he graduated from high school in 1949 . He then worked for a year in the youth emergency service and in civil engineering . At the same time, he took evening classes at the German Political College .

In the 1950/51 winter semester, Weiß began to study law at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen . In November 1950 he became a fox in the Corps Lusatia Leipzig , which had succeeded the Corps Misnia IV in Erlangen . After three active semesters, he moved to the Free University of Berlin . In the summer semester of 1952 he was still active in the Corps Marchia Berlin to help it rebuild. When the Corps Lusatia moved from Erlangen to Berlin in April 1958, he was once again active as an active member. He passed the two state law exams in 1954 and 1958.

Berlin judicial service

On April 1, 1959, he joined the judicial service of the state of Berlin (West) as a court assessor . He was mainly used in criminal matters ; he was with the public prosecutor's office for a year . On November 1, 1962, he became a district judge at the Berlin district court .

Nazi trial

As a member of the jury , he was involved in the politically controversial acquittal of Hans-Joachim Rehse , the former judge of the chamber judge and assessor at the People's Court . Citing the case law of the Federal Court of Justice , the jury acquitted Rehse on December 6, 1968, who had participated in the death sentences of the People's Court in 1943 and 1944 for “ favoring the enemy ” and “ degrading military strength ”, of the charge of murder and attempted murder in the seven accused cases . As rapporteur , Weiß drafted the written reasons for the judgment .

Terrorist trials

Subsequently appointed examining magistrate I at the regional court, in 1970/71 he conducted, among other things, the preliminary investigation against Ulrike Meinhof and other members of the Red Army faction for attempted murder in connection with the liberation of the prisoner Andreas Baader . Appointed a member of the Chamber Court Council on May 1, 1972, he was active in several criminal panels of the Chamber Court, mainly in revision matters. As a judge of the 1st Criminal Senate, he was involved in first-instance state security matters . In the terrorist trials, they particularly affected members of the Red Army Faction and the June 2nd Movement as well as agents of the GDR Ministry for State Security .

The series of proceedings against members of criminal and terrorist organizations before the Court of Appeal began in 1972/73 with the criminal case against Horst Mahler for serious robbery , in which Weiss participated as a reporter. In the criminal case against Ralf Reinders , Till Meyer and other members of the June 2nd Movement for the kidnapping of the CDU state chairman Peter Lorenz and the murder of the President of the Supreme Court Günter von Drenkmann in 1978/80, he was deputy chairman of the Senate for decisions on the execution of pre- trial detention mainly responsible for post control.

Two resolutions by which Weiss had forbidden the delivery of mail to the imprisoned co-defendant Fritz Teufel were made public. Fritz Teufel set a "monument" for him in the fun guerrilla . In the fairy tale of Ali and Fatima , white is immortalized as the evil vizier “Egbert dirt horse, also a terrifying sword”. He ensures security and order, whispers bad things to the sick king and is punished by the mighty fate "to the court of justice in Berlin, where he has to mess with the accused until he has a heart attack" .

Proceedings on their own behalf

The “memorial plaque episode” triggered by Weiß caused a stir: on June 8, 1989, demonstrators in West Berlin welcomed a “total objector” who had been legally convicted in Hamburg as “50,000. Military service refugee, "insulted the Bundeswehr and called for action against Berlin companies that worked for the armaments industry . They gathered in front of the building of the Chamber Court and the 5th Criminal Senate of the Federal Court of Justice on Witzlebenstrasse, where the Reich Court Martial had resided until 1943 . Accompanied by speeches by the Vice-President of the Berlin House of Representatives , Hilde Schramm , and the District Mayor of Charlottenburg , they unveiled a wooden plaque, the inscription of which referred to the conscientious objectors and resistance fighters who had once been sentenced by the Reich Court Martial. This provisional memorial plaque, which was later to be replaced by a metal one, was placed on a protruding wall next to the entrance to the court without the permission of the landlord. Weiß saw this as an abuse of the office building for unjustifiable political purposes, so the next day he removed the wooden panel that had been left behind, had it shredded by a nearby construction worker and put the parts in a dumpster. Newspaper reports on this caused the Justice Senator Jutta Limbach to initiate formal disciplinary proceedings against Weiss ; but it was unsuccessful in both instances. The Political Department of the Public Prosecutor's Office at the Regional Court initiated an investigation against Weiss for property damage, which they discontinued on the grounds that the accused could have assumed that the wooden panel that had been left behind was “abandoned”. Even after the Unusual Measures Bureau complained about his ownership of the board, the prosecution stuck to its decision.

Treason proceedings

For the daughter of the journalist Carl von Ossietzky , who was sentenced to one year and six months in prison by the Reichsgericht in the Weimar Republic in 1931 for betraying military secrets, the lawyer Heinrich Hanover submitted an application to the higher court to reopen the proceedings. As rapporteur, Weiß participated in the decision of the 1st Criminal Senate of July 11, 1991, which rejected the application for reopening as inadmissible.

In 1993, Weiß retired.

Honorary and secondary positions

From 1961 to 1993 White was in the Berlin Voluntary Police Reserve , since 1968 as a Hundred Leader .

From 1975 to 1977 he was a member of the Berlin Court of Honor for Lawyers .

Student historian

Weiß has been involved in student history for decades . His publications deal primarily with the Leipzig and Berlin student associations . The focus is on the scale length , the duel and the history of the University of Leipzig . He worked on the role of corps students in the escape aid of the Fuchs group in West Berlin .

Then and now

  • Lusatia versus NSDStB. The discussion with the NS student union Leipzig 1934 , Vol. 17 (1972), pp. 145–153.
  • with Max Küstner: The duel at Connewitz in 1828 before the Leipzig University Court . Excerpts from the university files. 18: 98-101 (1973).
  • The general student committee Leipzig 1911 - Corps student university policy before the 1st World War . 19: 104-110 (1974).
  • Corps Misnia IV
    • Part 1: The Constitution of Comradeship Margrave of Meissen. A contribution to the history of the Corps Misnia IV in Leipzig . 19: 122-140 (1974).
    • Part 2: Leipzig scale lengths in World War II. Continuation of the history of the Corps Misnia IV Leipzig [1942–1944] . 20: 60-77 (1975).
    • Part 3: Leipzig corps life in World War II. Continuation of the history of the Corps Misnia IV [1944/45] . 21: 137-152 (1976).
  • Fraternity ideas in the corps. A contribution to the 160th anniversary of the Wartburg Festival . 22: 89-98 (1977).
  • Pastor [Wilhelm] Henniger's beard. A corps student in the Baden Revolution of 1849 . 26: 83-87 (1981).
  • Collective tyranny of the Order? 27: 259-261 (1982).
  • The Leipziger SC and the "Lolamannen" . 27: 261-263 (1982).
  • Lusatian in the War of Liberation 1813/15 . 29: 11-16 (1984).
  • From the history of the Corporationsring Berlin
    • Part 1: The Period of Persecution [1948–1956] . 31: 81-101 (1986). - Addendum in Vol. 32 (1987), p. 283.
    • Part 2: The prime until the university crisis [1957–1967] . 32: 59-86 (1987). GoogleBooks
    • Part 3: The corporation ring in the student revolt [1967/68] . 33: 153-181 (1988).
    • Part 4: The CR during the higher education reform [1968–1974] . 35: 219-248 (1990).
  • Charged to the Lusatia Leipzig around 1825. A contribution to student uniform studies . 32: 187-189 (1987).
  • Corps students in the pre-March period - "persecuted" and "persecutor" . 33: 47-63 (1988) and 34 (1989), 264 f.
  • Corps students in the Paulskirche . Special edition 1990. GoogleBooks
  • Frankfurt and Berlin Märker 1811 . 37: 186-187 (1992).
  • Berlin Unitist Lodge? A wrong lead . 37: 188-191 (1992).
  • Corps students in the Reichstag of the North German Confederation. A contribution to the 130th anniversary . 42: 9-40 (1997).
  • A clarification on the Leipzig beer state . Vol. 45 (2000), pp. 19-21.
  • Carl Hoerder-Credé as a Leipzig Westphalian . Vol. 46 (2001), p. 347 f.
  • When was the SC in Erlangen reconstituted? Vol. 48 (2003), p. 347.
  • The pistol duels of the Leipziger Lausitz in the 19th century . Vol. 50 (2005), pp. 161-189.
  • The Leipzig University Jubilee 1809. A contemporary report . Vol. 54 (2009), pp. 17-51.
  • Scale lengths with changing weapons in Leipzig and Jena . Vol. 54 (2009), pp. 71-83.
  • A Leipzig prison picture as “world heritage ”. Vol. 55 (2010), pp. 447-450.
  • The Berlin SC-Pauk-Comment as the engine of the weapon student's new beginning in Central Germany . Vol. 56 (2011), pp. 349-368.
  • Corps students in the Leipziger Karzer. Perpetrators and witnesses before the University Court 1862–1879 . Vol. 61 (2016), pp. 251-272.

German corps newspaper

  • The university policy mandate of the Kösener Corps . 3/1969, pp. 148-150.
  • Corps student public relations - why, how and by whom? . 1/1971, pp. 17-20 and 2/1971, p. 115.
  • Flyer advertising principles . 1/1974, pp. 18-24 and 1/1978, pp. 3-8.
  • Tasks of the newspaper of a corps , 4/1977. Pp. 126-129.
  • German answer from a Saxon Wenden. For the 160th birthday of the Lausitzer Wendenführer Immisch . 1/1980, p. 15 and 2/1981, p. 92.
  • Don't be afraid of Walter Bloem! 2/1993, p. 19 f.
  • In the footsteps of Karl May. The crimson Methuselah . Der Corpsstudent 4/1995, p. 214; also reprinted in the KMG-Nachrichten of the Karl-May-Gesellschaft No. 110, December 1996, pp. 18-20.

See also: Deutsche Corpszeitung

The convent

  • To the practice of corps student actions . Vol. 19 (1968), pp. 279-283.
  • The resurrection of the Berliner SC after the Second World War . Vol. 25 (1974), pp. 44-46.
  • In a losing position - a corps student as president of the GDR regional chamber ( Reinhold Lobedanz ). Vol. 26 (1975), pp. 17-19.
  • Eduard von Siebold as a corps student . Vol. 27 (1976), p. 141.
  • New start for corporate students in 1946 in Erlangen . Vol. 28 (1977), pp. 39-41.

Others

  • Corps students in the Paulskirche , in: Studenten-Kurier 2/1998, pp. 7–11.
  • Corps students on the way to German unity - from St. Paul's Church to the First Reichstag , in: Rolf-Joachim Baum (ed.): We want men, we want action! German corps students from 1848 to today (commemorative publication for the 150th anniversary of the KSCV). Siedler, Berlin 1998, pp. 84–110.
  • Richard Wagner's unsuccessful Contrahagen , in: Studenten-Kurier 1/2007, pp. 3–4.
  • Leipzig student duels in the 19th century - a foray through the annals of the Lusatia , in: Face up - and stand! Festschrift for Klaus Gerstein, ed. by Sebastian Sigler , 2nd revised edition under the title: The Lectures of the 70th Student History Conference Berlin 2010 . Contributions to German student history, Essen 2012, ISBN 978-3-939413-30-1 , pp. 157–171.
  • with Hans Lipp and Helmut Weiß: Active in the monarchy. Leipzig Corps students 1807–1918. CVs of the Leipziger Lausitzer. Festschrift for the 210th Foundation Festival of the Corps Lusatia, Leipzig 2017 . Publishing house Schmidt, Neustadt an der Aisch 2017. ISBN 978-3-96049-017-3 .

Lectures

Honors

literature

  • Egbert Weiß, EM of the Lusatia Leipzig . Deutsche Corpszeitung 2/1978, p. 59.
  • Hans Nehlep: Egbert Weiß , in: Friedhelm Golücke : Author's lexicon for student and university history . SH-Verlag, Cologne 2004, p. 346.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annemarie Nagel: Jugendnot Einsatz in Kreuzberg (2002) .
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 87/1118; 91/732.
  3. ^ Reprinted by Jörg Friedrich : acquittal for the Nazi judiciary. The judgments against Nazi judges since 1948. Documentation . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1983, pp. 463-486.
  4. ↑ Resolution of November 2, 1978 in: DER SPIEGEL (November 13, 1978)
  5. ↑ Resolution of February 6, 1979 in: Communications of the Notgemeinschaft for a free university, "University of Applied Sciences for Economics under hammer and sickle - V", Berlin, May 1979.
  6. ↑ Fritz Teufel , Robert Jarowoy: Fairy tales from the fun gerilja . Libertarian Association and Roter Funke Verlag, Berlin 1980.
  7. ^ Reports in daily newspapers in Berlin: taz of June 9, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16, 1989; July 8 and 10, 1989; September 2 and 29, 1989, October 18, 1989 and February 28, 1990. Der Tagesspiegel of June 10, 13, 14, 15 and 20, 1989; July 6, 7 and 8, 1989, September 27, 28 and 29, 1989, October 18, 1989 and February 28, 1990.
  8. ↑ Juristische Rundschau (JR) 1991, p. 479; Neue Juristische Wochenschrift (NJW) 1991, p. 2505; confirmed by the Federal Court of Justice on December 3, 1992 (NJW 1993, p. XIII).
  9. ↑ Murder bandits, agents and provocateurs (M. Eggers, 2001) ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 62 kB). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hannovera.org
personal data
SURNAME White, Egbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, judge at the higher court, student historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin