Günther Tesch

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Günther Tesch in Allied internment

Günther Tesch (* 21st October 1907 in Cologne ; † 7 March 1989 Dortmund ) was a German lawyer and SS -Leader, the legal advisor of the Lebensborn was. In the process of the Race and Settlement Main Office of the SS (RuSHA process), Tesch was sentenced in 1948 to the prison term he had already served and released after the verdict was pronounced.

Life

Günther Tesch received his doctorate in law from the University of Erlangen in 1933 . As SS-Sturmbannführer, Tesch was the head of the legal department of the Lebensborn, and in this function, together with the Lebensborn department head Inge Viermetz, in March 1942 he negotiated "Germanization" with the NSV boss Erich Hilgenfeldt . In these and subsequent negotiations it was about the equality of the Lebensborn with a state youth welfare office, which meant a practical exclusion of the state welfare offices from the children and young people "looked after" by the Lebensborn. A corresponding statutory order was published on July 22, 1942. As head of the legal department, Tesch was responsible, among other things, for changing the names of “German-capable” Polish children who were taken away from their parents. In addition, the Lebensborn had its own " registry office L" in Munich .

Tesch was arrested on May 13, 1945 by the advancing Allies . In the RuSHA trial , one of the twelve Nuremberg follow-up trials , Tesch was charged in 1947 with (1) war crimes , (2) crimes against humanity, and (3) membership in a criminal organization. He was acquitted on the first two counts on March 10, 1948 and found guilty only on the third count. As punishment his since been interned was serving detention of two years and ten months fixed, so he was released after sentencing.

Tesch later worked as a lawyer in Dortmund.

literature

  • Trials of War Criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law No. 10 , Vol. IV (“The RuSHA Case”). United States Government Printing Office , District of Columbia 1950, pp. 597-1185. ( Volume 4 (PDF; 56.9 MB) of the "Green Series")
  • Trials of War Criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law No. 10 , Vol. V ("The RuSHA Case continued."). US Government Printing Office, District of Columbia 1950, pp. 1-192. ( Volume 5 (PDF; 31.0 MB) of the "Green Series")
  • 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 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Günter Tesch: The justification of unauthorized treatment . Erlangen 1934. (Legal dissertation at the University of Erlangen from 1933.)
  2. ↑ Kathrin Kompisch: Women in National Socialism . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2008, ISBN 341220188X , p. 34.
  3. ↑ Volker Koop: “Give the Führer a child”: the SS organization Lebensborn eV Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2007, ISBN 3412216062 , p. 145.
  4. ↑ Volker Koop: “Give the Führer a child”: the SS organization Lebensborn eV Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2007, ISBN 3412216062 , pp. 171–173.
  5. ^ A b Trials of War Criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals , Vol. V. District of Columbia 1950, p. 167.
  6. ^ Trials of War Criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals , Vol. V. District of Columbia 1950, p. 164.
  7. ↑ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, pp. 619f.
personal data
SURNAME Tesch, Günther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tesch, Gunther; Tesch, Guenther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS officer in Lebensborn eV and defendant in the Nuremberg successor trials
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century