Fritz Josef Berthold

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Fritz Josef Berthold (born April 25, 1909 in Augsburg ; † January 30, 1981 ) was a German lawyer .

Life

Fritz Josef Berthold was born in Augsburg as the son of a Munich doctor and a South Tyrolean ( Austria-Hungary ). He studied law, was a member of Catholic student associations and was friends with Michael Gamper and Ulrich von Hassell . He completed his studies with a doctorate . He married in 1937, his wife Eleonore, geb. Russ, (1912-1989) was also a lawyer. In 1942 a son was born.

In 1939 he expressed himself hostile to emigration in the Sarntal against the option in South Tyrol , whereupon he was interrogated by the Schutzstaffel . From September 1939 was involved in the legalization of the resettlement of Bessarabian Germans in the Generalgouvernement . Later he was a volunteer with the Wehrmacht in France from 1943.

After 1945 he was a lawyer in Munich, represented Fritz Schäffer , Joseph Baumgartner campaigned for a Bavaria-wide approval of the Bavarian Party for the US occupiers and gave these lessons in Schuhplattler . He received Alois Hundhammer and Hans-Jochen Vogel on social evenings and was emissary between the Hoegner government and Karl Gruber (politician, 1909) .

He represented a client in a case in which he was investigating the referendum after the annexation of Austria .

Bertold represented Markus Seibald, an employee of Philipp Auerbach . Seibald had imported 13 million bars of chocolate from the Army & Air Force Exchange Service for five million DM and paid a commission of 5,000 German marks to the CSU through Ernst Rattenhuber and Hans Ehard .

Until March 29, 1958, he was a board member with Hans Luther in the Association for German Cultural Relations Abroad and was replaced in this function by Hans Egidi .

Fritz Berthold was a member of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria and legal advisor at the casinos in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Bad Wiessee . In the casino affair (Bavaria) , he made a statement in court . After Friedrich Zimmermann had made a contrary statement in hypoglycemia , a case of perjury was opened against Berthold in October 1959 , he was arrested, incapacitated and admitted to the Haar Psychiatric Clinic because of the risk of escape at the request of public prosecutor Heinrich Jörka .

In 1963 Bertold was rehabilitated, received 100,000 German marks in damages from Bavaria and committed to secrecy in a contract with a contractual penalty of 50,000 German marks.

In 1978 Fritz J. Berthold was the spokesman for the “Central Association of Democratic Resistance Fighters and Organizations for the Persecuted” and commented on the Werner Höfer case .

In 1980, in the course of a manhunt for gun owners, his apartment in Munich and his second home in South Tyrol were searched for a list of gun buyers from Interpol Rome under the name “Action South Fruits”.

Fonts

  • Letter to Karl Haushofer from Krakow, July 15, 1940, on the resettlement of the Germans from Bessarabia and Bukowina, source: HH private archive (Hartschimmelhof); Copy; mach.schriftl. with handwritten. in Karl Haushofer, Hans Adolf Jacobsen, Karl Haushofer: Leben u. Work: Volume 24, Issue 2, 1979
  • The mirror is held up to the Bazi from Limes Romanus or Den Bayern. The original Bavarians and their history

Fritz Josef Berthold's estate with his memories and documents is in the Bavarian Main State Archives .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Sandra Karmann: Estate of Friedrich Josef Berthold (News from the Bavarian State Archives, No. 59, December 2010, p. 15, viewed August 27, 2011; PDF; 4.9 MB)
  2. ^ Austria in History and Literature with Geography, Volume 42, Institute for Austrian Studies 1998 in the Google book search
  3. ↑ Jaromír Balcar, Thomas Schlemmer: At the top of the CSU: The governing bodies of the Christian Social Union p. 343, footnote 85 in the Google book search
  4. ^ The minutes of the Bavarian Council of Ministers 1945 - 1954: September 28, 1945 to December 21, 1946. The Hoegner I cabinet in the Google book search
  5. ↑ Expressly the word No - For the policy of the Reich government . In: Der Spiegel . No. 48 , 1949, pp. 7-8 ( Online - Nov. 24, 1949 ).
  6. ^ Party funding . In: Der Spiegel . No. 19 , 1952, pp. 7-10 ( Online - May 7, 1952 ).
  7. ↑ Klaus Wiegrefe : Bolzano fucker . In: Der Spiegel . No. 13 , 2008, p. 42 ( online - March 22, 2008 ). VDA - at the company's expense . In: Der Spiegel . No.  30 , 1959, pp. 29-31 ( online - 22 July 1959 ).
  8. ↑ Peter Jakob Kock: The Bavarian State Parliament: a Chronicle, Volume 1, Echter, 1996, p. 140 in the Google book search; Fritz J. Berthold . In: Der Spiegel . No. 42 , 1959, pp. 66 ( Online - Oct. 14, 1959 ).
  9. ↑ The concentration camp comes back at night . In: Der Spiegel . No. 12 , 1979, pp. 103-115 ( Online - Mar. 26, 1979 ).
  10. ^ Fritz Berthold . In: Der Spiegel . No. 25 , 1980, pp. 202 ( Online - June 16, 1980 ).
  11. ↑ Crap from the Limes . In: Der Spiegel . No. 32 , 1976, pp. 64 ( Online - Aug. 2, 1976 ).
personal data
SURNAME Berthold, Fritz Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berthold, Friedrich Joseph; Berthold, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1981