Friedrich Bergold

Friedrich Bergold (born March 15, 1899 in Nuremberg , † 1983 ibid) was a German lawyer and local politician .

Life

Friedrich Bergold (left) in the Einsatzgruppen trial (1947/48)

Friedrich Bergold studied law at the University of Würzburg . After completing his doctorate at the University of Erlangen in 1925, Bergold settled in Nuremberg as a lawyer. During the time of National Socialism , he represented expropriated and overreached Jews. During the Second World War he served in occupied France in an administrative unit stationed in Paray-le-Monial . Bergold was not a member of the NSDAP .

Three days before the start of the Nuremberg trial of the major war criminals , Bergold was asked by the International Military Tribunal (IMT) to take over the defense. After his acceptance he was entrusted with the compulsory defense of the former head of the Reich Chancellery, Martin Bormann , who was the only defendant to be heard in absentia.

Bergold then acted as the public defender of Field Marshal Erhard Milch in the so-called Milch trial and also took over the defense in the Einsatzgruppen trial . In the process of the main economic and administrative office of the SS , he defended the SS-Obersturmbannführer Horst Klein .

He later continued his practice as a lawyer. From 1960 he belonged as a member of the FDP to the city council of Nuremberg and twice ran for mayor. In 1974 he received the citizen medal of the city of Nuremberg, together with Karl Maly (1905–1985).

Honors

1973: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
1974: Citizen's Medal of the City of Nuremberg
2007: Naming of a path in Nuremberg

literature

Benedikt Salleck: Criminal defense in the Nuremberg trials. Process flows and defense strategies illustrated by the work of the defender Dr. Friedrich Bargold . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-428-14801-1 .

Web links

Dr. Friedrich Bergold - contemporary witness and public defender

Individual evidence

↑ October 26, 1963: The last word of the three candidates. In: Nürnberger Nachrichten . October 26, 2013, accessed January 16, 2016 .
^ ^A ^b Telford Taylor : Final Report to the Secretary of the Army in the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials under Control Council Law No. 10 . United States Government Printing Office , Washington DC 1949, pp. 304-305.

personal data
SURNAME	Bergold, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and local politician
DATE OF BIRTH	March 15, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH	1983
Place of death	Nuremberg

[1] October 26, 1963: The last word of the three candidates. In: Nürnberger Nachrichten . October 26, 2013, accessed January 16, 2016 .

[nmt-2] A ^b Telford Taylor : Final Report to the Secretary of the Army in the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials under Control Council Law No. 10 . United States Government Printing Office , Washington DC 1949, pp. 304-305.