Georg Jurkowski
Georg Jurkowski (born July 31, 1891 in Berlin ) was a German postman and a victim of Nazi war justice.
The Jurkowski case
Jurowski was in the service of the Reichsbahn as a postman . On August 3, 1943, during a stay in Danzig, during a conversation he had on the street with a work colleague who was also on the railroad, on the way to the train station, he said that Hermann Göring had enriched himself with property belonging to others in Italy. An employee of the Reich Governor in Danzig named Rosemarie Grande who happened to overhear the two men, then confronted him and warned him to keep something like that to himself and not to trumpet it. Jurowski then explained to the woman that she would think differently about this in two months: The Italian dictator Mussolini had already been arrested and Hitler would soon face the same fate and next January he would no longer be alive.
Grande then alerted a police officer and had Jurkowski arrested. He was finally indicted before the 1st Senate of the People's Court in Berlin, chaired by Roland Freisler, for degrading military strength (assessors were Chamber Judge Rehse, Mayor Ahmeis, local group leader Kelch, district leader Heinrich Reinecke ). At the meeting on October 14, 1943, he was found guilty and sentenced to death. In the reasoning, Freisler stated that Jurkowski was a “defeatist, corrosive agitator” who had shown that he was devoid of any honor and therefore had to be punished with death “to protect our inner unity”.
The death sentence should have consequences for at least one of the responsible judges: In the 1960s, it formed the subject of the proceedings before the Federal Court of Justice against the then Chamber Judge Hans-Joachim Rehse . A conviction did not come about for formal legal reasons. Instead, the case was referred back to the lower court and Rehse died before the proceedings could be legally concluded.
literature
- Walter Wagner The People's Court in the National Socialist State , Munich 2011, p. 314.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jurkowski, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German postman and a victim of Nazi war justice |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1943 |