Friedrich Jung (lawyer)

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Friedrich Walter Jung (born December 3, 1890 in Harpstedt , † December 17, 1978 in Celle ) was a German lawyer. During the Nazi era he was Attorney General at the Court of Appeal and President of the Higher Regional Court in Breslau .

Life

As a pastor's son, Jung attended the Alte Gymnasium in Bremen. After graduating from high school, he served as a one-year volunteer in the Hanoverian Jäger Battalion No. 10 . Dismissed as a deputy sergeant , he studied law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . With Ernst von Windheim he became active in the Corps Bremensia in the winter semester 1910/11 . His grandfather Wilhelm Jung (1818/20) and his brother Friedrich Jung (1822) were Bremen residents. Jung was also connected to the Corps through maternal relatives, namely through Karl Albrecht (1817/20) and George Albrecht (1835/37). They all came from East Frisia and the county of Hoya . Friedrich's older brother Wilhelm had been from Bremen since 1907. On May 20, 1911 recipiert was Friedrich Jung Cub Major and winter term 1911/12 Consenior . It was also unplanned when the Corps celebrated the 100th foundation festival in the summer semester of 1912. Jung was the pioneer of the legendary pageant through Göttingen. After the legal traineeship and the doctorate to Dr. jur. he married Viva Heiliger, a granddaughter of Carl Heiliger from Bremen. She gave him four children, of whom the sons Ernst Friedrich Jung and Friedrich Jung the Elder. J. were also Bremen residents.

Jung became a court assessor in 1921. He was district judge in Hagen im Bremischen (1926) and district judge, from October 1933 district court director at the district court of Hildesheim . In November 1933 he came to the Chamber Court as Attorney General . He had been a member of the NSDAP since 1931 and of the SA from 1933, and he served as a Gau leader at the NS-Rechtswahrerbund . On June 8, 1937, he took part in the ministerial conference that resolved the non-prosecution of " intensified interrogation " - torture - by the secret state police . Jung took part in the conference of the highest lawyers in the German Reich on April 23 and 24, 1941 in Berlin , at which Viktor Brack and Werner Heyde provided information about the "destruction of life unworthy of life" in the gas chambers of the T4 campaign . In this context he also learned about the “pseudo-legalization of the murder of the sick ” by Franz Schlegelberger . He was at the Supreme Court until he was drafted into the Army of the Wehrmacht . In early January 1943 he became the last president of the Breslau Higher Regional Court . As regimental commander in the Volkssturm , he was captured by the Soviets in the battle for Breslau . In the absence of Jung, an arbitration chamber proceeding was carried out against him in Celle , which was supervised by his son as a legal representative. In September 1949, Jung was classified as a “fellow traveler” by the local denazification main committee . On October 15, 1955, he was able to return to his family in the Stechinellihaus in Celle as part of the “return home of the ten thousand” . He worked in an advisory capacity for the Hanover Wholesale Association. In retirement, as President of the Higher Regional Court, he received a. D. a pension by the state of Lower Saxony.

In the 1960s, former higher regional court presidents and attorneys general were investigated for complicity in the murder of the sick and disabled during the Nazi era, since the lawyers had been asked to cover these acts during the conference of the highest lawyers in April 1941. In 1967, as part of the preliminary investigation against him, Jung stated that there had been no discussion of the events among the participants in the conference. Rather, an "icy silence" prevailed, which was equivalent to a "rejection". He himself was an opponent of euthanasia for religious and legal reasons and also intervened against Schlegelberger. Schlegelberger himself could not remember a protest on the part of Jung. Jung also stated that he had resisted the Nazi regime. In a letter from Jung to Justice Minister Otto Thierack after the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , however, he welcomed, among other things, the “rapid action against the traitors”. He justified this situation report during the interrogation with "reasons of camouflage". In May 1970 the accused were put out of prosecution by the Limburg Regional Court : "Aid to murder in the sense of sufficient suspicion could not be proven to them". After the lawyer Helmut Kramer published an article on the trial, Jung's son Ernst Friedrich accused him of falsifying the truth. Kramer then reported Jung's son for insult, slander and false suspicion. After several years of trial, Ernst Friedrich Jung was finally acquitted in 1990 and the proceedings were discontinued because of insignificance. However, there were reports in the press about the proceedings, which the defendant had not intended.

Jung was buried in the Harpstedter Friedhof next to his wife Viva geb. Heiliger († 1968) and his eldest son Jan, who died in April 1945. Colonel General a. D. Hermann Balck gave a funeral speech.

literature

  • Moritz von Köckritz: The German Higher Regional Court Presidents in National Socialism (1933-1945) (= Legal History Series 413), Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-61791-5 , pp. 213ff. (not evaluated)
  • Ernst Klee : What they did - what they became. Doctors, lawyers and others involved in the murder of the sick or Jews . 12th edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-596-24364-5 .
  • Christoph Schneider: Servant of law and destruction. The proceedings against the participants in the 1941 conference or: The justice system against Fritz Bauer. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2017, ISBN 978-3-593-50689-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1971, 39/1359.
  2. ↑ a b Helmut Kramer : “Hold a court day on yourself” - Fritz Bauer's procedure for the involvement of the judiciary in institutional murder. In: Hanno Loewy and Bettina Winter: Nazi euthanasia in court: Fritz Bauer and the limits of legal coping. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1996, ISBN 3-593-35442-X , p. 126
  3. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Frankfurt am Main 2007, pp. 291f.
  4. ↑ Ilse Staff: Justice in the Third Reich: A Documentation , Fischer taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1978, p. 106ff.
  5. ^ Gerd Nowakowski: Coming to terms with the past via the grotesque . In: taz of February 3, 1989, p. 9
  6. ↑ Ernst Klee: What they did - What they became. Doctors, lawyers and others involved in the murder of the sick or Jews , Frankfurt am Main 2004, p. 343
  7. ↑ Ernst Klee: What they did - What they became. Doctors, lawyers and others involved in the murder of the sick or Jews , Frankfurt am Main 2004, pp. 250f.
  8. ↑ Christoph Schneider: Servants of the law and destruction. The proceedings against the participants in the 1941 conference or: Die Justiz gegen Fritz Bauer , Frankfurt am Main 2017, pp. 188f.
  9. ↑ Ernst Klee: What they did - What they became. Doctors, lawyers and others involved in the murder of the sick or Jews , Frankfurt am Main 2004, p. 251
  10. ↑ Ernst Klee: What they did - What they became. Doctors, lawyers and others involved in the murder of the sick or Jews , Frankfurt am Main 2004, p. 265
  11. ^ Fritz Bauer Archive: Nazi Justice: Schlegelberger and others. The involvement of the judiciary in institutional murder should go to court
personal data
SURNAME Jung, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jung, Friedrich Walter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German attorney general and OLG president
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Harpstedt
DATE OF DEATH 17th December 1978
Place of death Celle