Erich Schmidt-Leichner

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Erich Schmidt-Leichner (born October 14, 1910 in Berlin ; † March 17, 1983 ) was a German criminal defense attorney .

Life

Erich Schmidt-Leichner studied from 1929 jurisprudence at the University of Berlin , where he worked as an assistant and in 1934 "in its significance for the intent in criminal wrongdoing and error" on his doctorate . He passed both state law exams with distinction. In 1937 he became senior assessor, in 1938 court assessor, in 1940 district judge and in 1943 chamber judge. From May 1941 Schmidt-Leichner worked in the criminal legislation department of the Reich Ministry of Justice .

From 1947 he was involved as a defender in the Nuremberg trials . He was an employee of other defense lawyers in the Flick trial and the IG Farben trial ; In the Wilhelmstrasse trial against leading members of the Foreign Office, he appeared as an independent defense attorney. In 1949 he settled as a lawyer in Frankfurt am Main and was admitted as a criminal defense lawyer at the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court . In the same year he refused to be reactivated as a judge.

He published in the Neue Juristische Wochenschrift and in the lawyer newspaper . Media notoriety he gained the early 1960s as a set-back of Werner Heyde in the process to the T4 before the District Court Limburg an der Lahn , which his client withdrew from suicide. From October 1966 he represented Franz Six as a suspect in the Berlin investigations against members of the Reich Security Main Office . In 1978 he was also active as a defender in the trial of the death of Anneliese Michel .

In April 1966, as one of 17 lawyers and the political scientist Hans Buchheim, he took part in a conference in Königstein im Taunus that dealt with the question of how the criminal justice system should deal with Nazi crimes. The results were presented in September 1966 at the 46th German Lawyers' Conference in Essen.

He was a member of the German Lawyers' Association and speaker of its "summer course", which dealt with criminal procedure law and revision law and took place every year abroad, as well as a member of the German Criminal Defense Association, founded in 1974 and from the mid-1970s until his death at the age of 72 its chairman.

Fonts

  • Erich Schmidt-Leichner: Consciousness of injustice and error in their meaning for intent in criminal law . Kurtze, Breslau 1935.

literature

  • Rainer Hamm , Walter Matzke (Hrsg.): Festschrift for Erich Schmidt-Leichner on the 65th birthday . Beck, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-406-06318-7 .
  • Walter Lewald: Erich Schmidt-Leichner on his 70th birthday In: New legal weekly magazine. Volume 33 (1980), Issue 47, Page 2565.
  • Hubert Seliger: Political lawyers? : the defenders of the Nuremberg trials . Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2016 ISBN 978-3-8487-2360-7 , p. 551

media

  • Reinhart Holl: Article 2: Heyde trial. Analysis of the reasons for the postponement of the date for the trial against Werner Heyde (head of the adult euthanasia campaign, campaign T4). With a statement from Lauritz Lauritzen (Hessian Minister of Justice) . In: Panorama . Norddeutscher Rundfunk , Hamburg December 2, 1963.
  • Fritz Schenk , Emil Obermann : Article 2: Public opinion on the problem of the limitation period. Representative survey and panel discussion with Lauritz Lauritzen (Hessian Minister of Justice) and Erich Schmidt-Leichner (defense attorney) . In: Report . No. 85 . Süddeutscher Rundfunk , Stuttgart March 15, 1965.
  • Rolf Bickel, Dietrich Wagner: The public prosecutor Joachim Kügler in an interview on the Auschwitz trial . Statements on the preliminary investigation, the search for the accused, his impression of Fritz Bauer , the significance of the trial for the public and personal, emotional experience of the trial . Hessischer Rundfunk , Frankfurt am Main June 25, 1993.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Köbler: Who was who in German law. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 4, 2007 ; Retrieved June 16, 2007 .
  2. Lutz Hachmeister: The enemy researcher. The career of SS leader Franz Alfred Six. Beck, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-43507-6 , pp. 341 .
  3. People in court: they are all obsessed. In: zeit.de . April 21, 1978. Retrieved April 11, 2016 .
  4. At the limits of the law. Talks with lawyers about the prosecution of Nazi crimes . In: Thomas Horstmann, Heike Litzinger (Hrsg.): Scientific series of the Fritz Bauer Institute . tape 14 . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-593-38014-5 .
  5. ^ Regina Michalke: History of the German Criminal Defense Association November 7, 2005, accessed on June 15, 2007 .

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