Gabriel Bach
Gabriel Bach ( Hebrew גבריאל בך; * March 13, 1927 in Halberstadt ) is an Israeli lawyer and was deputy prosecutor in the trial against Adolf Eichmann .
Life
As the son of the general director of the Hirsch copper and brass works Victor Bach and his wife Erna, he grew up in Berlin-Charlottenburg on Konstanzer Straße from the age of two and attended the Theodor Herzl School , which was then headed by Paula Fürst .
In October 1938, Bach's family emigrated from the National Socialist German Reich to Amsterdam , where he continued to attend school. He is the only survivor of his Jewish classmates from this school time. In 1940, one month before the invasion of the Netherlands by German troops, the family booked a passage on the Patria to Palestine and lived there in Jerusalem .
He went to the war to London and studied at University College Jura . He graduated with an award in 1949. He started a career with the public prosecutor in 1953. In 1961 he became the second of the three prosecutors in the Eichmann trial as deputy attorney general, which changed his life.
In 1969 he became attorney general. After his appeal to the Supreme Court of Israel as a judge in 1982, he worked there until his retirement in 1997. He then took over the chairmanship of the so-called Bachmann Committee , which decides on appeals within the Israeli army.
He later represented Israel at international conferences. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife Ruth.
honors and awards
- Buchnan Prize (1949)
- Large Federal Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (October 10, 1997)
- Friend of the City of Jerusalem
- Honorary Member of the University of London
- Lemkin Award, Los Angeles (2011)
- Prize of the Jülich Society against Forgetting and for Tolerance (2014)
Fonts
- Genocide trials in Israel , in: Jacob D. Fuchsberger (Ed.): The Nuremberg Trials. International Criminal Law since 1945. International Conference on the 60th Anniversary - The Nuremberg Trials: International Criminal Law Since 1945. 60th Anniversary International Conference. KG Saur, Munich 2005 ISBN 3-598-11756-6 Bilingual. Article: pp. 216–223, in English, German summary
Movie
- Gabriel Bach. The Prosecutor and the Eichmann Trial by Wolfgang Schoen and Frank Gutermuth, TV Schoenfilm D 2010
literature
- Peter Kasza: He only gave himself up in front of the gallows , Süddeutsche Zeitung of January 27, 2007
Web links
- Literature by and about Gabriel Bach in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Biographical sketch by Gabriel Bach with photos
- Bach Committee (Advisory Committee on Senior Civil Service Appointments)
- Interview with Eichmann prosecutor Gabriel Bach (wdr.de September 28, 2010)
- "An SS man kicked me from Germany" , interview with Gabriel Bach in the weekly newspaper Jungle World , supplement Dschungel, part 1: No. 14 of April 7, 2011; Part 2: No. 15.
- "50 Years of the Eichmann Trial - A person with murderous drives" , Interview with Gabriel Bach, in: Spiegel Online, April 11, 2011.
- Interview (2011): My father had the sixth sense
- Deputy Prosecutor in the trial of Adolf Eichmann: A conversation with Gabriel Bach (haGalil.com 2007)
Individual evidence
- ^ Deputy Prosecutor in the trial against Adolf Eichmann: A conversation with Gabriel Bach
- ↑ TV Schoenfilm
- ↑ The conversation here is very long. Since spring 2010, GB has made its main statements in numerous media of all kinds and at several conferences in the FRG.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bach, Gabriel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | גבריאל בך (Hebrew) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Israeli lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Halberstadt |