Gold slide process
The gold slide trial was a court case from the beginning of November 1949 to August 1, 1950 for an elaborately staged fraud in the Upper Bavarian slide industry at the end of the 1940s.
The shoe retailer Fritz Tretter and the director of the Bayerische Gemeindebank Hans Leonhard had been made credible that they could participate in a gold and brass trade with an investment of 150,000 German marks . A secretary was hired to handle the trade . The suppliers of the non-ferrous metals arranged to meet the secretary on a remote forest path near Mittenwald . In a bogus police operation, the secretary's money and vehicle were stolen. Since the 150,000 Deutsche Mark, hot off the press, came from a loan agreement , the Bavarian police with the file number II / St. B. Az 28 (S) investigations. On October 25, 1949, Edmund Georg Stoiber, Edmund Stoiber's father , was arrested in Oberaudorf . Stoiber had convinced in his role as American Colonel Horn , which earned him the accusation of a foreign exchange offense, fraud and extortion by robbery. During his interrogation, the bank director stated that he had registered a deposit with the Munich police chief Franz Xaver Pitzer . At the hearing, the actor Josef Schäffler, acting as a non-ferrous metal seller, claimed that Pitzer had been given the prospect of participating in the proceeds of the trade. Pitzer contradicted this accusation. The proceedings against Edmund Georg Stoiber were discontinued on August 1, 1950 due to an amnesty law.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Stankiewitz : White and Blue Black Book. Scandals, outrages and affairs that aroused Bavaria. Volk, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-937200-48-4 .