Günther Lummert

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Günther Lummert (born January 22, 1903 in Waldenburg , Province of Silesia , † July 14, 1968 in Cologne ) was a German lawyer and criminal defense attorney .

Life

Lummert grew up in Waldenburg in Silesia , where he graduated from high school in the spring of 1921 . Then he trained as a banker at Deutsche Bank until autumn 1923 , first in Waldenburg and then in Berlin . At the same time, he had been enrolled at the University of Berlin as a student of law and political science since the summer semester of 1922 and was active in the Corps Normannia . In the winter semester of 1925/25 he moved to the University of Breslau , where he also became a member of the Corps Silesia . In 1926 he passed his first state examination. In parallel with the trainee service he graduated in 1930 with the second state examination, he was an assistant at the law school and received his doctorate Dr. iur. At the end of 1930 he settled as a lawyer at the Higher Regional Court in Breslau, and in 1941 he was also appointed as a notary . He was not called up during World War II , but remained a lawyer in Wroclaw until 1945. After the war he first became a lawyer and notary in Celle , from autumn 1945 to mid-1949 he was a defender in the Nuremberg trials , for example in the IG Farben trial for Hans Kühne , in the Wilhelmstrasse trial for Ernst Woermann and in the Einsatzgruppen trial for Walter Blume . From July 1950 until his death he worked as a lawyer at the Higher Regional Court in Cologne .

For the German Red Cross in the British Zone, Lummert wrote the report in 1948 on the criminal proceedings against Germans abroad for war crimes . The experience of the war led him to found the Institute for International and Social Justice in Cologne in 1958 as a private foundation, because at that time there was no state-supported institution for peace research .

Publications

  • The criminal proceedings against Germans abroad for "war crimes" . Legal protection office for prisoners of war and civil workers abroad, Hamburg 1949.
  • Marxism-Leninism and International Law . Markus-Verlag , Cologne 1959.
  • International and social peace through justice . Markus-Verlag, Cologne 1962.
  • Power and brotherhood . Markus Verlag, Cologne 1965.

literature

  • Daube: Obituary for Günther Lummert , in: Corpszeitung der Silesia zu Breslau, year 48 (1968), issue 136, pp. 2-5.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b see e.g. B. Biographical note, page 8, Marxism-Leninism and international law , Markus-Verlag Cologne 1959
  2. ↑ see protocol of the IG-Farben process at the Mazal Library
  3. ↑ Records of the United States Nuremberg War Crimes Trials , Vol. 4, United States Government Printing Office , District of Columbia 1950, p. 11 .
personal data
SURNAME Lummert, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and defense attorney
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldenburg , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1968
Place of death Cologne