Ernst Lautz

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Roland Freisler appoints Lautz as attorney general at the Berlin Regional Court on August 31, 1936
Ernst Lautz during the Nuremberg Trials

Ernst Lautz (born November 13, 1887 in Wiesbaden ; † January 21, 1979 in Lübeck ) was a National Socialist German lawyer. He was a senior Reich attorney in the German Reich and was sentenced to ten years in prison in the legal process.

Life

After completing his legal exam, Lautz first became a soldier in the First World War and was prosecutor in Neuwied from 1920 . In 1930 he moved to Berlin to work as a senior public prosecutor at the regional and regional court . He was a member of the German People's Party . In 1936 he became attorney general in Berlin and moved to Karlsruhe in 1937 . Lautz, who had joined the NSDAP in May 1933 , became a prosecutor at the People's Court on July 1, 1939 . He took part in the meeting of the highest lawyers in the Reich on April 23 and 24, 1941 in Berlin, at which Viktor Brack and Werner Heyde provided information on the "destruction of life unworthy of life" in the gas chambers of the T4 campaign . He was the prosecution's representative in the proceedings against those involved in the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944 . Together with Roland Freisler , on January 30, 1945, he appealed to the German judiciary to confirm their devotion to the “ Führer ”.

Conviction as a war criminal

On December 14, 1947, Lautz was sentenced to ten years imprisonment in the Nuremberg legal process because he was criminally involved in the implementation of the Polish and Jewish Criminal Law Ordinance , which had been drawn up by Franz Schlegelberger . On February 1, 1951, he was released early from prison in the Landsberg War Crimes Prison (as was Schlegelberger).

Pension scandal

After his release from prison, Lautz lived in Lübeck until his death. The Pension Office in Kiel had his pension entitlements since 1 December 1952 (1951 and 1952 was entitled to his position and salary as chief prosecutor) of Oberreich lawyer to 1936 under the Nazis carried transport "cut" to the Attorney General at the Court of Appeal in Berlin. The political scandal in the Federal Republic uncovered by the Stuttgarter Nachrichten in December 1956 (after five years) led, after another five years of disciplinary legal battles (it was also a question of what title one could use to address him: "Senior Reich Attorney aD"), finally to a " Mercy pension " of 600  DM . A trial sought by Eugen Gerstenmaier did not materialize because the treaty regulating issues arising from war and occupation of May 26, 1952 forbade another conviction by German courts.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Voswinckel: Guided Paths. The Lübeck martyrs in words and pictures. Kevelaer 2010, ISBN 978-3-7666-1391-2 , p. 199. According to Ernst Klee : Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich - Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 360, Lautz died on January 21, 1979, also https://www.munzinger.de/search/portrait/Ernst+Lautz/0/7051.html (accessed April 30, 2018) ; see. also http://www.bundesarchiv.de/cocoon/barch/0/z/z1960a/kap1_12/para2_20.html (accessed on April 30, 2018).
  2. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein was particularly generous with its career among the federal states. See Werner Heyde's arrest in Flensburg in 1959. See also the work of the State Secretary's son and CDU Minister Hartwig Schlegelberger
  3. ↑ Der SPIEGEL reported… In: Der Spiegel . No.  46 , 1963, pp. 130 ( online ). Quote: "The Kiel Ministry of the Interior had only granted the former Nazi prosecutor a 'grace pension' of 600 marks per month."
personal data
SURNAME Lautz, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1979
Place of death Lübeck