Franz Holczak

Franz Holczak (born October 3, 1893 in Polish Lischna , Austrian Silesia ) was president of the special court in Opava and co-founder of the Carpathian German Party (KdP).

life and career

After schooling of the Albrecht-Gymnasium in Cieszyn , he was in the First World War soldier in the Austrian army . He finished his military service with the rank of first lieutenant. He then studied law and joined the Czechoslovak judiciary in 1920. During his studies he became a member of the K.Ö.HV Nordgau Wien in 1912 .

He was appointed judge in 1922. He worked at the district court in Levoca in Slovakia from April 1, 1921 to August 25, 1938. During this time he was politically active and in 1929 he founded the KDP with others in Slovakia. He also ran a candidacy for the parliament of Czechoslovakia .

In Košice at the higher court he worked as a clerk in the service of a court council after August 25, 1938. With the Munich Agreement , a German judicial system was set up in the Sudetenland . In December 1938 he tried to get a job with the German judiciary.

As early as December 12, 1938, he was able to begin his service at the German regional court in Opava, and he worked at this court until the end of the war. He was appointed district court director on April 1, 1939. On October 17, 1939, a special court was set up at the Opava district court in Mährisch Ostrau , with Holczak being appointed president of the special court. A considerable expansion of his service area occurred in February 1945, when he was appointed deputy of the district court president and president of a court martial .

He presided over the main negotiations on lawsuits relating to occupation law in Troppau as district court director, and on January 8, 1945 he was still involved in the death sentence for Berta Resselová (née Novatná) from Tetschen for buying food and clothing from relatives of soldiers. He also participated in judgments with high penal sentences when foreigners had established relationships with Germans.

After the war, Czechoslovakia looked for him on their list of war criminals under the number S-8/41. Internationally he was searched for by the United Nations War Crimes Commission in the Alphabetical index of war criminals . In 1949 he moved from Troppau to Memmingen , where he worked as district court director at the district court of Memmingen in the 1950s . He retired in autumn 1958 and moved to the suburb of Memmingerberg in 1964 . From there he moved to Nuremberg in August 1974 .

literature

• Association of Antifascist Resistance Fighters / Československý Svaz Protifašistických Bojovníku (Ed.): Criminals in judges ' robes . Documents on the criminal activities of 230 Nazi judges and prosecutors on the occupied territory of the Czechoslovak Republic who are currently serving in the West German judiciary . Orbis, Prague 1960.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ KK Albrecht-Gymnasium -Teschen
2. ^ The honorary members, old men and students of the CV Vienna 1925, p. 635.
3. ↑ Der Spiegel, January 26, 1955