Erich Wandschneider

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Erich Wandschneider (center) in 1947 as Defense Counsel for Curt Rothenberger in the Nuremberg legal process ;
between Alfred Schilf (left) and Heinrich Grub

Erich Wandschneider (* 1899 ; † June 25, 1956 ) was a German lawyer and a well-known German criminal defense attorney .

Life

Wandschneider worked as a lawyer in Hamburg from 1926. Together with Robert Gärtner, he ran a law firm from April 1, 1926 in Hamburg's old town, Ferdinandstrasse 25. He was chairman of the Conservative People's Party in Hamburg. In the Reichstag election in 1930 he ran unsuccessfully for the Conservative People's Party in Hamburg at number 7 on the list. From April 1, 1931, he practiced his practice alone from his office at Mönckebergstrasse 7 in the Levantehaus . In 1932 Wandschneider ran unsuccessfully as the top candidate of the People's Conservative Association of Hamburg for a seat in the Hamburg Parliament . He later became a member of the NSDAP . During the time of National Socialism he took on mandates for representatives of the Confessing Church , for socialists and communists such as Fiete Schulze and in 1934 Ernst Thälmann .

After the Second World War he defended Curt Rothenberger in the Nuremberg legal process , the Nazi propaganda film director Veit Harlan and Ludwig Hahn , the commander of the security police and SD in Krakow and Warsaw , who was jointly responsible for the final evacuation of the Warsaw ghetto in 1943 . He also took over the mandate for the former Krupp board member Heinrich Korschan in the Nuremberg Krupp trial .

“I fight for the rights of the threatened person - no matter what their political stance is. I did it under the Nazis and I'm doing it again now "

- Erich Wandschneider, 1949

Erich Wandschneider died at the age of 58 after a short, serious illness. His son Hajo Wandschneider took over his office in Hamburg .

literature

  • Stefan König: From the service of law. Lawyers as criminal defense attorneys under National Socialism. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1987, ISBN 3-11-011076-8 , pages 80, 82, 84; limited preview in Google Book search

Web links

Commons : Erich Wandschneider  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth and death year given in the context of Curt Rothenberger's defense in: Hubert Seliger: Politischeanwälte? The defenders of the Nuremberg trials. Zugl. Diss. Univ. Augsburg 2014. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2016.
  2. ↑ a b Erich Wandschneider † ; Obituary in the Hamburger Abendblatt from June 26, 1956.
  3. ↑ Hamburg address book 1926. P. 1097 – II.
  4. ↑ Hamburger Anzeiger (morning edition) of April 2, 1926.
  5. ↑ Hamburger Nachrichten of July 31, 1930, page 1
  6. ↑ Hamburg Correspondent and New Hamburg Stock Exchange Hall of April 3, 1931, p. 4, see there advertisement / advertisement
  7. ↑ Hamburger Anzeiger (edition A, large edition) of April 8, 1932, No. 163, year 1932, page 1
  8. ↑ Ingrid Buchloh: Veit Harlan: Goebbels' star director. Schöningh, 2010, p. 189; limited preview in Google Book search
  9. ↑ Susanne Schott : Curt Rothenberger - a political biography , dissertation Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg 2001, DNB 963239597 , pp. 162-169
  10. ↑ Veit Harlan has the final word , Hamburger Abendblatt, 16 April 1949
  11. ↑ Kim C. Priemel, Alexa Stiller: NMT: The Nuremberg Military Tribunals between History, Justice and Righteousness. Hamburger Edition 2013, ISBN 978-3-86854-278-3 , p. 782 f .; limited preview in Google Book search
  12. ^ Dances of Death in Scheffelstrasse. . Der Spiegel 15/1949, April 9, 1949, pp. 4-5.
personal data
SURNAME Wall tailor, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 1899
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1956