Ernst Emmert

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Ernst Emmert (born February 26, 1900 in Kitzingen , † January 22, 1945 near Glogau ) was a German lawyer and National Socialist.

Life

At the age of 17, Emmert joined the replacement battalion of the 17th Infantry Regiment “Orff” of the Bavarian Army as a volunteer during the First World War . Only in November 1918 did he return to Ansbach with his regiment for demobilization . Until July 1921 he was active in several volunteer corps, u. a. in the Freikorps Oberland .

Emmert studied a. a. at the Friedrich-Alexander-University law. In 1920 he became a member of the Corps Bavaria Erlangen and passed the first state examination in law in Erlangen in 1923. He completed his legal clerkship in Ansbach , Fürth and Munich . In December 1926, he completed his second state examination, and received his doctorate for Dr. jur. At the beginning of June 1927 he was taken on as an assessor in the Bavarian judicial service and worked in Ingolstadt, Hengersberg and Munich. At the beginning of August 1929 he became a district attorney in Pfaffenhofen, at the beginning of September 1931 a district judge in Erlangen, and in November 1933 a senior magistrate in Heidenheim a. H. and at the beginning of February 1936 regional judge at the regional court in Nuremberg-Fürth, where he became higher regional judge and member of the judicial examination office at the Nuremberg Higher Regional Court in October 1938 . In July 1942 he was appointed President of the Senate . After he was temporarily employed in the Reich Ministry of Justice (Department I) from May 17, 1943 , he became President of the Nuremberg Higher Regional Court on July 1, 1943 .

In November 1943 Emmert became an honorary senator at the University of Erlangen .

Emmert first joined the NSDAP in 1923 and took part in the Hitler putsch . From 1929 he was active again for the party and the SA in Pfaffenhofen. He joined the SA on March 3, 1933 and the NSDAP on March 24, 1933 (No. 3,070,745). From November 1933 he was the leader of the SA Storm 11/13 and was promoted to Standartenführer within the SA.

In the National Socialist Lawyers' Association he was for a long time "Gaupressewart". Later he was appointed by the Reich Minister of Justice Thierack as "Gauwalter" of the National Socialist Lawyers' Association for the Gau Franconia .

After several reserve exercises , he was promoted to lieutenant in the reserve on March 21, 1938 and took part in World War II from September 1939 . As first lieutenant and leader of the 1st Battalion of the 282 Infantry Regiment, he deviated from his mission in October 1941 and gained strategic advantages in the east by taking Gorky . For this he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on December 31, 1941 . Captain and battalion commander since 1942 , he was seriously wounded near Bekrino in August 1942 and was transferred home.

From July 1, 1943 to January 22, 1945 Emmert was President of the Higher Regional Court in Nuremberg. Since July 25, 1944, commander of the 55th Grenadier Regiment, he was released from the Wehrmacht on September 10, 1944 at his request . The OLG position was initially not filled, but was temporarily transferred to the Public Prosecutor Emil Bems from September 11, 1944.

Less than a month later, on October 7, 1944, he was severely wounded for the second time and taken to a hospital. Promoted to lieutenant colonel in the reserve on January 15, 1945 , he died a week later in a hospital train.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 20/500
  2. ↑ Journal Deutsche Justiz , No. 28 of July 23, 1943, p. 366
  3. ↑ Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearers 1939-1945. The holders of the Iron Cross of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and armed forces allied with Germany according to the documents of the Federal Archives. 2nd Edition. Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 , p. 294.
  4. ^ Communication from the General Public Prosecutor's Office in Nuremberg, May 2010
personal data
SURNAME Emmert, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and officer
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Kitzingen
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1945
Place of death at Glogau