Günther Reinecke

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Günther Reinecke (born April 18, 1908 in Stuttgart , † April 24, 1972 in Munich ) was a German lawyer and SS leader.

Life

Youth and education

After attending elementary school and high school, Reinecke studied law at the universities of Innsbruck and Munich . During this time he became a member of the KDSt.V. Langobardia Munich and the KDHV Leopoldina Innsbruck in the CV . In 1931 he became a court trainee. He graduated in 1933 in Munich with the promotion of Dr. jur with a thesis on Munich private law supervised by Konrad Beyerle .

time of the nationalsocialism

After passing the assessor exam in 1934, he became a court assessor and was thus given the opportunity to exercise a judicial office. He then took on a position as a clerk for disciplinary matters in the SS.

Reinecke joined the NSDAP ( membership number 3.257.841) and the Schutzstaffel (SS membership number 77.151). In the SS, Reinecke was promoted to SS-Oberführer in November 1944 .

Reinecke worked in the SS judicial system for almost ten years and was a member of the Reichsführer SS Personal Staff in 1938 . From 1939 he was head of Office I (legal office) at the main office of the SS court in Munich and representative of the head of the main office of the SS court. After the German occupation of Norway , Reinecke set up the SS and Police Court North in Oslo , in which, from September 1941, violations by Norwegians against the ordinances of Reich Commissioner Josef Terboven were negotiated. Reinecke let u. a. investigate against Hans Frank , the governor of the general government , for corruption. Reinecke's investigators had discovered the illegal enrichment of the Frank family in the course of another corruption case in the Generalgouvernement. On December 1, 1941, Reinecke reported to Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler that Ms. Frank had illegally obtained at least ten fur coats and that the Governor General had illegally transferred jewelry, furniture and groceries in large quantities to his Schobernhof property in southern Germany. Himmler used this affair to, together with Hans Lammers and Martin Bormann, on March 5, 1942, extort personal concessions from Frank with regard to the personnel in the government of the Generalgouvernement.

Reinecke became chief judge of the Supreme SS and Police Court on August 8, 1942.

post war period

At the end of the war, Reinecke was taken prisoner by the English. As a result, he was questioned as a witness in the context of the Nuremberg trial against the main war criminals . In the proceedings against the SS as an organization, he testified on August 6, 1946 on the witness stand about the General SS, the Waffen SS and the Security Police. Reinecke reported in particular on SS investigations against members of the concentration camp staff. Reinecke was excluded from his student associations.

After his release from internment, Reinecke worked as a lawyer in Munich.

Fonts

  • Munich private law in the Middle Ages. Contributions to the history of the development of city law , Munich 1936 (printed edition of his dissertation)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Günther Reinecke on www.dws-xip.pl
  2. a b Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 533.
  3. Bianca Vieregge: The jurisdiction of an "elite": National Socialist jurisprudence using the example of the SS and police jurisdiction. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2002, ISBN 3-7890-8011-X , p. 11.
  4. ^ Robert Bohn: Reichskommissariat Norway. Contributions to military history, Volume 54. Oldenbourg, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-486-56488-9 , p. 92.
  5. Heinz Höhne: The Order under the Skull - The History of the SS. Augsburg 1998, p. 294f.
  6. Bianca Vieregge: The jurisdiction of an "elite": National Socialist jurisprudence using the example of the SS and police jurisdiction. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2002, ISBN 3-7890-8011-X , p. 49.
  7. Honorary persons and person book of the Catholic University Association Leopoldina, status July 2007. Catholic University Association Leopoldina, Innsbruck 2007, page 43.