Egon Kubuschok

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Egon Bernhard Edmund Kubuschok (born November 12, 1902 in Rosenberg, Upper Silesia , † August 27, 1981 in Bad Honnef ) was a German lawyer . Kubuschok became known as the defender of Franz von Papen and the Reich government at the Nuremberg trial of the main war criminals in the context of the Nuremberg trials in 1945/1946.

Life

Kubuschok was the son of the doctor Rudolf Kubuschok and his wife Gertrud, nee Stober. In his youth he attended the Johannes-Gymnasium in Breslau , where he passed his Abitur at Easter 1922. Kubuschok then studied law at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Breslau for six years, with interruptions in favor of commercial activities . After he had passed the legal trainee exam at the Higher Regional Court in Breslau on June 6, 1928 , he worked as a trainee lawyer at the public prosecutor's office in Oels and at the local and regional court in Breslau from June 23, 1928 . In addition, he received his doctorate with a thesis on ownership to Dr. jur. Kubuschok passed the oral doctoral examination on July 10, 1928.

After completing his legal preparatory service, Kubuschok settled in Wroclaw as a lawyer specializing in criminal law.

During the Second World War , Kubuschok distinguished himself as a defender of Czech resistance fighters before the National Socialist People's Court . Among other things, he defended Václav Kropáček , a death sentence member of the resistance group Obrana národa ; After his defense, Kubuschok was excluded from the National Socialist Lawyers 'Association (the German Lawyers' Association during the Nazi era).

After the victorious Allied powers of the Second World War had already announced their intention during the war to bring war criminals on the side of the Axis powers to account for their crimes , they began their preparations in the summer of 1945, a few months after the end of the war in Europe with regard to the former leadership of the collapsed German Reich : For this purpose, certain leading individuals and institutions of the Nazi state were selected on the basis of the London statute , against whom a few months later in the course of a "trial against the main war criminals" Charges should be brought before a military tribunal made up of representatives of the four victorious powers. Among them was the former Chancellor Franz von Papen . This was particularly criticized for his role in the formation of the Hitler government in the spring of 1933 and his work as Vice Chancellor (1933–1934) and diplomat (1934–1944) in the service of the Nazi state.

The defendants were allowed to choose their own defense counsel as part of the trial against the main war criminals - which marked the start of the Nuremberg trials. Papen then decided on the recommendation of his friend, the Silesian magnate Friedrich von Schaffgotsch, whose lawyer Kubuschok had been for years, for Kubuschok as his defense lawyer.

Kubuschok stood by Papen throughout the length of the major war criminals trial, which lasted from October 1945 to September 1946. In addition to defending Papen, he also took over the defense of the Reich government, which, as a legal entity , was also charged by the victorious powers on suspicion of being a criminal organization. While at the end of the trial 19 out of 22 accused individuals and almost all accused organizations were found guilty, Kubuschok was able to obtain acquittals for von Papen and for the organization “Reichsregierung”. In his memoirs, Papen consequently stated that by choosing Kubuschok as defense attorney, he had "made an excellent move". He was an “excellent defense attorney”, whose “clear, penetrating mind and quick comprehension” enabled him to deal with every situation in the course of the trial.

In 1948 Kubuschok took over the defense of the banker Karl Rasche as part of the Wilhelmstrasse Trial . In October 1970, Dr. Kubuschok received the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class, from Bonn's district court president Hugo Dieckmann. After the war, Kubuschock campaigned with great personal commitment for the release of political prisoners in the states of the Eastern Bloc.

Kubuschok later settled in Bad Honnef , where he died on August 27, 1981.

Fonts

  • The fruit acquisition of the non-owner under civil law , 1930. (Dissertation)
  • with Rudolf Weißstein: Right of restitution of the British and American zones. Commentary on Military Government Act 51 , 1950.

literature

  • Ralf Ahrens: The Dresdner Bank 1945–1957. Consequences and continuities after the end of the Nazi regime. Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-58303-8 .
  • Drexel A. Speaker: Inside the Nuremberg Trial. A Prosecutor's Comprehensive Account. Volume 1 and 2. University Press of America, Lanham / New York / Oxford 1999, ISBN 0-7618-1284-9 .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ 3. Kubuschok was Franz von Papen's lawyer. Federal Cross of Merit for Dr. Kubuschok - Helpers for political prisoners, in: General-Anzeiger Bonn (27.10.1970)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ES: KROPÁČEK Václav . Biography in: Vojenské osobnosti československého odboje 1939–1945 , publication of the Historical Military Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the Czech Republic, AVIS, Prague 2005, p. 153, online (archived) at: vojenskaakademiehranice.ic.cz / ...
  2. ↑ Franz von Papen: Der Truth ein Gasse , 1952, p. 627.
personal data
SURNAME Kubuschok, Egon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kubuschok, Egon Bernhard Edmund (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Rosenberg, Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1981
Place of death Bad Honnef