Gideon Hausner

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Gideon Hausner (standing) with Robert Servatius (front left) during the Eichmann Trial (1961)

Gideon Hausner (born September 26, 1915 in Lemberg , Austria-Hungary , † November 15, 1990 in Jerusalem ) was an Israeli lawyer and politician . Hausner became known as the chief prosecutor in the trial against Adolf Eichmann . His book Justice in Jerusalem is considered to be an early standard work on coming to terms with the Shoah .

Life

Hausner's father worked in Lemberg as a teacher and chief rabbi and was later secretary to Theodor Herzl . In 1927 he immigrated with his parents into the League of Nations mandate for Palestine . In Tel Aviv he attended secondary school. He then studied philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and then until 1942 at the Jerusalem Law School the subject of law .

At the time of the English mandate over the territory of Palestine, he served in the British police force, and as a member of the Hagana he fought in the Jerusalem Brigade in 1948 . After the establishment of the state , he worked as an Israeli military prosecutor and as president of the military tribunal. On July 1, 1960, he was appointed attorney general .

Hausner became world-famous when he appeared in 1961 as chief prosecutor and attorney general in the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem . The special skill of the prosecution of Hausner was that he was able to prove through numerous documents and more than one hundred testimony for each charge that Eichmann had violated the fundamental rights of the victims and the Jewish people. After the trial, Hausner refused to release Eichmann's biographical diaries. A lawsuit by Eichmann's son regarding the publication of the diaries in 2000 was unsuccessful.

In 1963 Hausner gave up the position of Attorney General and began his career as a politician. Two years later he was elected to the Knesset parliament as a member of the Independent Liberal Party. In 1969 and 1973 he was re-elected as a Member of Parliament. In 1974 he ended his mandate in parliament and went to government as a minister without portfolio .

In 1977 he received another mandate in parliament. When his party was unable to meet the electoral requirements in 1981, he had to leave parliament. As an honorary post, he presided over the Yad Vashem Memorial Council. He died of cancer on November 15, 1990 .

Fonts

  • Justice in Jerusalem. The Trial of Adolf Eichmann , New York 1966
  • Justice in Jerusalem . Translated by Peter de Mendelssohn, Munich 1967
  • The extermination of the Jews - the greatest crime in history , Munich 1979

literature

  • Ruth Bettina Birn : A German Public Prosecutor in Jerusalem. In: Werner Renz (editor): Interests around Eichmann. Israeli justice, German law enforcement and old comradeships. Campus publishing house, Frankfurt a. M. 2012, ISBN 978-3-593-39750-4 , pp. 93-117.

Web links

Commons : Gideon Hausner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gideon Hausner, 75, This in Israel; Headed Prosecution of Eichmann , Glenn Fowler, New York Times, November 17, 1990.
  2. ^ Approval of Adolf Eichmann's diaries. Legal assistance from the Israeli State Archives (PDF; 14 kB); from: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , March 1, 2000.
personal data
SURNAME Hausner, Gideon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hauzner, Gidʿôn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Lviv
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1990
Place of death Jerusalem