Hans Werner von Aufseß

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Hans Werner von Aufseß as a witness at the Nuremberg trials.

Hans Werner von Aufseß (also Hans Werner Freiherr von Aufseß ; born January 31, 1909 in Scheinfeld , † May 29, 1978 in Aufseß ) was a German lawyer, ministerial official and author of travel and nature guides.

Life

In his youth Aufseß attended a grammar school in Berchtesgaden and the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich , where he passed his Abitur in 1927. He then studied law at the University of Munich from 1927 to 1931 . In 1931 he passed the first state examination in law. He then worked from 1931 to 1935 in the legal preparatory service at courts and administrative offices in Munich, Nuremberg and Bremen . In 1932 he was at the University of Erlangen with a thesis on importance Criminal consent for the negligence of the physician to Dr. jur. PhD. The formal end of his training was the Great State Examination in Law, which he passed in Berlin in 1935.

Aufseß had been a member of the NSDAP since August 1931 (membership number 576.940). At that time he also became a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS. No. 10.490), in which on April 20, 1939 he achieved the equal rank of Sturmbannführer . Between March and June 1933 he was "Landscape Guide of Bavaria" of the short-lived Greater German Confederation .

In 1935 Aufseß got a job as a clerk for hereditary questions in the main department I in the Reichsnährstand . From 1936 to October 1939 he held the post of personal assistant to the Reich Minister of Agriculture, Walther Darré, in the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture . He then worked in the Ministry's Hereditary Farm Department until June 1940, most recently in the rank of senior government councilor.

From June 1940 until the end of the Second World War Aufseß served in the Wehrmacht , most recently with the rank of lieutenant. In the army, he initially belonged to the 1st Mountain Division at before 1941 to February 1943 in the department "Agricultural Management and Organization" by the end of June in the Economic Staff East was used in the East Prussian Bartenstein. He then served in the 97th Jäger Division .

Shortly after the end of the war, Aufseß was arrested by the Allies near Iglau . After he fled from there, he was interned again and took part in the Nuremberg trials as a witness in 1947 . He later worked as a lawyer .

Around 1930 and again around 1950 Aufseß published several travel and nature guides.

Promotions

  • April 1939: Upper Government Council

Fonts

  • The little Berchtesgadener Führer , 1927.
  • Schellenberg. Guide through Schellenberg and the Berchtesgadener Land , 1930
  • The criminal meaning of consent for the negligence of the doctor , 1933. (Dissertation)
  • The Obersalzberg. A short guide for visitors to Obersalzberg , 1933.
  • The Aufseßal. History and Landscape , 1950.
  • Greifenstein Castle in the Leinleitertal , 1951.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of the nobility in Bavaria (ed.): Genealogical manual of the nobility matriculated in Bavaria, vol. 16 ( ISBN 3-7686-5075-8 ), Stegaurach 1986, p. 164.
  2. ^ Annual report from the K. Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich. ZDB ID 12448436 , 1926/27
  3. ^ Matthias von Hellfeld : Bündische Jugend and Hitlerjugend. On the history of adaptation and resistance 1930–1939 , 1986, p. 95.
  4. ↑ Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin: Witness literature (Aufseß 'statements in the Nuremberg trials; PDF; 4.4 MB)
  5. ↑ List of witnesses in the Nuremberg proceedings (PDF; 186 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Aufseß, Hans Werner von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aufseß, Hans Werner Wilhelm von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Scheinfeld
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1978
Place of death Aufseß