Fritz Grau (lawyer)
Fritz Grau (born January 28, 1890 in Kassel , † April 26, 1975 in Emstal) was a German lawyer and ministerial official.
Live and act
Gray was the son of a dentist. After attending school in Kassel, he studied law in Marburg and Munich . In 1911 he passed the trainee examination and in 1916 the assessor examination.
In 1919, Grau became a permanent laborer at the public prosecutor's office in Kassel. In 1923 he was appointed to the Public Prosecutor's Office. Since April 1927 Grau was employed in the Justice Ministry in Berlin .
In 1930 Grau was appointed First Public Prosecutor at the Superior Court in Berlin. On June 1, 1930 he was appointed District Court Director and District Court Counselor in Düsseldorf .
After the National Socialist " seizure of power " in the spring of 1933, Grau joined the NSDAP (membership number 2.828.028) and the Sturmabteilung (SA). In 1938 he moved from the SA to the SS (membership number 314.180), in which he achieved the rank of SS-Obersturmbannführer in 1944. Grau was also a member of the Academy for German Law .
From December 1933, Grau was again active in the Reich Ministry of Justice . In January 1934 he was appointed Vice President of the Berlin District Court before becoming Senate President at the Chamber Court in July 1935. He then worked again as a leading official in the Reich Ministry of Justice until the collapse of the Nazi regime in the spring of 1945: in April 1936, Grau was promoted to Ministerial Counselor and in November 1943 to Ministerial Director. He also worked on the magazine for military law published by Heinrich Dietz .
After the end of the Second World War , Grau was taken prisoner by the Allies. In the following years he was questioned as a witness during the Nuremberg Trials . According to Günther Joël , Grau was responsible for “Polish and Jewish criminal law”.
Fonts
- The coming German criminal case. Report of the Official Criminal Procedure Commission , 1938 (edited by Franz Gürtner ; co-author Roland Freisler )
- Explanations of the criminal law and criminal procedure regulations issued since September 1st, 1939 , (= German Criminal Law Vol. 1), 1941. (together with Roland Freisler)
literature
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
- Werner Schubert: Sources for the reform of criminal and criminal procedure law , 1991, p. Xxii.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 2197.
- ^ List of witnesses from the Nuremberg trials (PDF; 186 kB).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gray, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and ministerial official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | kassel |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 26, 1975 |
| Place of death | Emstal |