Emil Bems
Emil Bems (born November 26, 1881 in Bayreuth ; † November 3, 1961 in Heidenheim an der Brenz ) was a German lawyer. At the time of National Socialism , Bems was attorney general at the Nuremberg Higher Regional Court .
biography
Bem completed by the end of his school career to study law , which he after the clerkship with the second state examination and promotion to Dr. jur. completed. During his studies he became a member of the Munich Burschenschaft Arminia in the winter semester of 1901/02 .
After completing his law degree, Bems started a civil service career and was assessor in Bavaria from 1909. First he was the second public prosecutor in Landshut from the beginning of September 1912 , from the beginning of October 1919 district judge, from the beginning of May 1920 the first public prosecutor and from the beginning of January 1924 regional judge. At the beginning of June 1930, Bems moved to the Nuremberg District Court , where he initially served as District Court Director and Head of Department and from 1934 as a member of the Board. From mid-May 1936, Bems was Senate President at the Bamberg Higher Regional Court and from March 1937 President of the Regional Court in Nuremberg-Fürth. From the beginning of October 1937 to 1945, Bems was attorney general at the Nuremberg Higher Regional Court. In addition, from September 11, 1944 until the end of the Second World War, in the absence of Ernst Emmert, he was acting provisionally for the President of the Higher Regional Court .
Bems took part in the conference of the highest lawyers of the German Reich on April 23 and 24, 1941 in Berlin , at which Viktor Brack and Werner Heyde informed about the "destruction of life unworthy of life" in the gas chambers of the T4 campaign . In this context, Bems also learned about the “pseudo-legalization of the murder of the sick” by Franz Schlegelberger .
Political activity
During the time of the Weimar Republic , Bems said he was initially a member of the DVP and later of the DNVP . Bems belonged to the paramilitary organization Stahlhelm and after its transfer to the Sturmabteilung (SA) became a member of the SA, where he achieved the rank of Hauptsturmführer. The NSDAP he joined on May 1, 1937th
After 1945
After the end of the war, Bems was questioned several times during the Nuremberg trials . He then took up residence in Heidenheim.
Fonts
- The newspaper in copyright and publishing law , 1909. (Dissertation)
literature
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
Web links
- Joachim Lilla : Bems, Emil , in: ders .: Minister of State, senior administrative officials and (NS) officials in Bavaria from 1918 to 1945 , URL: < http://verwaltungshandbuch.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/bems-emil >
- Questioning Emil Bems on January 16, 1947 (PDF; 5.3 MB) - Source: Institute for Contemporary History Munich - Berlin, archive (PDF; 983 kB)
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Gareis: The Munich fraternity Arminia - becoming and fate. Munich 1967, p. 162.
- ↑ a b Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 37.
- ^ Records of the United States Nuernberg War Crimes trials Interrogations, 1946-1949. Date Published: 1977 (PDF; 186 kB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bems, Emil |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bayreuth |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd November 1961 |
| Place of death | Heidenheim an der Brenz |