Heinrich Anton Wolf

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Heinrich Anton Wolf , called Heinz Wolf (born March 3, 1908 in Limburg an der Lahn , † October 1, 1984 ibid) was a German lawyer and CDU politician. From 1937 he was initially a candidate for a career as a public prosecutor in Limburg an der Lahn, from 1939 public prosecutor in Danzig and Traunstein . In his work as a public prosecutor in the time of National Socialism, he participated in unjust judgments, but was in the context of denazificationclassified as "exonerated". From 1949 Wolf worked as a public prosecutor in Limburg an der Lahn and from 1957 as a senior public prosecutor in Frankfurt am Main , before he became a member of the state parliament of the Hessian CDU from 1962 . From 1964 Wolf was finally district administrator in the Limburg district , then from 1974 to 1975 in the newly established Limburg-Weilburg district .

Life and political career

Wolf attended the humanistic grammar school in Limburg and studied law and political science at the University of Frankfurt from 1927 to 1932 . With the beginning of his studies he became active in the Frankfurt fraternity Arminia . Wolf passed the first state examination in law on December 17, 1932 in Frankfurt am Main with an overall grade of sufficient . On May 1, 1933, he became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 3,497,884), in 1935 he was a trainee lawyer in Limburg and district chairman of the NS-Rechtswahrerbund ; In 1936 he was Gau press spokesman there. Since September or November 1933 he was a member of the SA (here he acted as a Rottenführer, troop leader and press and welfare officer). After the second state examination, which he passed on March 25, 1936 in Düsseldorf with good , he entered the civil service. On November 29, 1937, he married Maria Johanna Prötz (1914–2012) from Hahnstätten . The young civil servant quickly made a career , first in Frankfurt am Main, then in the Nazi judicial apparatus in Danzig . In May 1949 he was reinstated in the civil service. He stayed there until his retirement, only interrupted by holding various offices and functions as a CDU politician.

1939 to 1945: Public Prosecutor in Danzig and Traunstein

From November 1939 to August 1944, Wolf was a public prosecutor in Danzig, where he occasionally represented the public prosecutor General Kurt Bode . The good professional relationships between Wolf and Bode that had developed during the Danzig period lasted into the 1950s. Above all, however, he worked as a prosecutor before the Special Court in Danzig and before the OLG Senate Danzig, chaired by Arno Beurmann . The special courts in Danzig, part of the new administrative structure established in the course of the German occupation of Poland in the Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia , were preferably filled with "reliable officials" by the Reich Ministry of Justice . Wolf was there, according to the author Dieter Schenk , “responsible for numerous blood and convictions”. Thus, in the entire Gdańsk judicial apparatus, flanking the terror of the Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police and the SD , the desired mass extermination of the Polish “intelligentsia” and the population was implemented through systematic perversion of the law. In August 1944, Wolf took up a position as a public prosecutor in Traunstein , where he saw the end of the war. His denazification proceedings were concluded on September 26, 1947 in Bad Reichenhall with the verdict “Exonerated according to Art. 13”.

1947 to 1962: Krupp trial, (senior) public prosecutor in Frankfurt am Main

In the Krupp Trial wolf was from 1 November 1947, immediately after his denazification, as an assistant to Otto Kranzbühler operates. He defended the industrialist Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach , who was accused, among other things, of the use of forced labor . From September 1948, Wolf worked for the Munich attorney König, and from May 2, 1949 back at the Frankfurt am Main public prosecutor's office. After temporarily working at the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court, he was appointed First Public Prosecutor at the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court on October 1, 1950. At the beginning of 1952 he became senior public prosecutor in Limburg an der Lahn and returned to the public prosecutor's office at the Frankfurt am Main regional court on October 12, 1957 . During this time he was involved in the preparation of the First Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial. Between 1954 and 1962, Heinz Wolf was chairman or deputy chairman of the German Association of Judges , State Association of Hesse.

Wolf investigated the murder of Rosemarie Nitribitt . He was informed about a planned deal between Krupp and the main suspect Heinz Pohlmann, who should not mention the name of Harald von Bohlen and Halbachs to the press as a friend of Nitribitt. The extent to which Wolf's involvement in the Nazi regime was decisive for the termination of the investigation against the racial hygienist Eva Justin in December 1960 is currently being investigated.

1962 to 1975: Member of Parliament and District Administrator

From 1962 to 1966, Wolf was a member of the CDU in the Hessian state parliament , from December 1, 1962 to November 30, 1964, he was also the judicial policy spokesman for the CDU parliamentary group. In the press coverage of the Wolf case, there was talk of a possible “escape into politics”. In 1964, Heinz Wolf was a member of the 4th Federal Assembly . From July 1, 1964 to February 3, 1975 he was district administrator in the Limburg district , most recently in the newly merged district of Limburg-Weilburg . Wolf was an honorary citizen of Limburg and for a long time also gave its name to the local sports hall.

controversy

Heinz Wolf's grave in the main cemetery in Limburg

The parliamentary group Die Linke in the Limburg-Weilburg district assembly made repeated motions about Heinz Wolf's Nazi past from 2010 onwards. In the report on Heinz Wolf and his role during the Nazi era , which was subsequently prepared by the district home nurse Marie-Luise Crone and completed on February 13, 2012, the following result: "The evaluation marks Wolf as a convinced National Socialist, who did a somersault after the end of the war. You have to attest to him great opportunism, coupled with a strong career drive. It wasn't just a party member, he was 'publicly' involved in the regime. His statements about the dismissal of a Jewish woman, which can still be read today, and his opinion on the termination of pregnancy in hereditary diseases are difficult - against him - to carry weight. The only thing left to do now is to reveal the 'severity' of his involvement. There are still no conclusive statements about the Danzig era ... But it is becoming more and more clear: he is not a role model (therefore the award of the Federal Cross of Merit and the honorary citizenship of the city of Limburg as well as the naming of the sports hall is not justifiable.) "

Since April 2012, the Hessian state parliament has been checking more than 400 biographies of former members of the state parliament to determine whether those affected were Nazi perpetrators, followers or innocents. In the context of the investigation, the issue of how and through which connections Nazi perpetrators were able to pursue a political career after 1945 despite their proven involvement in the terror regime should be clarified.

The contact with the author Helga-Marie Panitzky , who lives in Monheim am Rhein , opened up a view of the Wolf case from the perspective of one of his victims. Their father, Johann Brose, was executed by beheading in 1944 on the basis of a minor offense in which the representative of the Danzig prosecution, Heinz Wolf, saw the offense of undermining military strength . Like all political victims of the Gdańsk National Socialist justice system, he was deprived of his civil rights in order to set a social example that went beyond physical annihilation. Helga-Marie Panitzky, who wrote a book about her life story entitled “They took my father from me” and published the facsimile copy of the death sentence against her father, was granted the right to speak at the district assembly on April 27, 2012.

As a result of the public debate on the Nazi past of the former district administrator Heinz Wolf, initiated by letters to the editor, archive publications and newspaper reports, the district assembly of the Limburg-Weilburg district unanimously decided in its meeting on April 27, 2012 to "rest" the name Heinz-Wolf-Halle let, and to name the largest sports hall in the district, for the time being, the Limburg district sports hall . Although this decision was initially only intended to be provisional, the signs were changed accordingly after a short time.

In the summer of 2013, the city council of Limburg an der Lahn spoke out in favor of repealing the resolution on the awarding of honorary citizenship to Heinz Wolf. (Result 42 votes in favor, 2 against, 1 abstention). From now on, Heinz Wolf is included in the list of former honorary citizens of the city of Limburg with reference to his active support of the Nazi system and the consequent withdrawal of the honorary title.

Awards

The honorary citizenship of the city of Limburg an der Lahn, awarded in 1975, was revoked again in 2013 due to the now well-known depth of involvement in the Nazi regime. For the same reason, the district council of the Limburg-Weilburg district withdrew the name of the district sports hall after Wolf in 2012.

literature

  • Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 , p. 438 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
  • Hans-Peter Klausch : Brown Legacy. Nazi past Hessian state parliament member 1st – 11th Electoral term (1946–1987) . The Left Group in the Hessian State Parliament, Wiesbaden 2011 ( Download [PDF; 4.2 MB ]).
  • Albrecht Kirschner: Final report of the working group on the preliminary study “Nazi past of former Hessian state parliament members” of the commission of the Hessian state parliament for the research project “Political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse” . Ed .: Hessischer Landtag . Wiesbaden 2013 ( Download [PDF; 479 kB ]).
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , p. 365.
  • Dieter Schenk: The post office from Gdansk. History of a German judicial murder. With a foreword by Horst Ehmke. Hamburg 1995.
  • Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2005.
  • Uta George, Georg Lilienthal, Volker Roelke, Peter Sandner, Christina Vanja (Eds.): Hadamar. Sanatorium, killing center, therapy center. Marburg 2006.
  • A. Morlang, KP Hartmann: Boycotted - Emigrated - Deported - Liquidated. Sources on the history of the Jews in the Diez area during National Socialism. Diez 1999.
  • Helga Panitzky: They took my father from me: the autobiography of a war child. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2011, ISBN 978-3-8423-8395-1 .
  • Werner Renz: An Unwanted Procedure The 1. Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial 1963–1965. and the German public. Notes on demythologizing an NSG procedure. Göttingen 2011.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The man has to go . In: Der Spiegel . No. 42 , 1957 ( online ).
  2. ↑ a b Jochen Lengemann : The Hessen Parliament 1946–1986 . Biographical handbook of the advisory state committee, the state assembly advising the constitution and the Hessian state parliament (1st – 11th electoral period). Ed .: President of the Hessian State Parliament. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-458-14330-0 , p. 438 ( hessen.de [PDF; 12.4 MB ]).
  3. ↑ Hans-Peter Klausch : Brown legacy. Nazi past Hessian state parliament member 1st – 11th Electoral term (1946–1987) . The Left Group in the Hessian State Parliament, Wiesbaden 2011 ( Download [PDF; 4.2 MB ]).
  4. ^ A b c Adolf Morlang / Klaus-Peter Hartmann : Boycotted - Emigrated - Deported - Liquidated . Sources on the history of the Jews in the Diez area during National Socialism. Ed .: Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation . 1st edition. Aartal Druck und Verlag GmbH, Diez, Limburg 1999, ISBN 3-922181-20-1 , p. 130 .
  5. ↑ Albrecht Kirschner: Final report of the working group on the preliminary study "Nazi past of former Hessian state parliament members" of the commission of the Hessian state parliament for the research project "Political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse" . Ed .: Hessischer Landtag . Wiesbaden 2013, p. 36 ( Download [PDF; 479 kB ]).
  6. ↑ Albrecht Kirschner: Final report of the working group on the preliminary study "Nazi past of former Hessian state parliament members" of the commission of the Hessian state parliament for the research project "Political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse" . Ed .: Hessischer Landtag . Wiesbaden 2013, p. 34 ( Download [PDF; 479 kB ]).
  7. ^ Dieter Schenk: The post office of Danzig. History of a German judicial murder. Reinbek 1995, p. 219.
  8. ^ Dieter Schenk: The post office of Danzig. History of a German judicial murder. Reinbek 1995. p. 218 ff.
  9. ↑ On this: The 1st Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial 1963–1965. and the German public. Notes on demythologizing an NSG procedure. Göttingen 2011. On Wolf: p. 351 ff.
  10. ↑ Norbert F. Pötzl: Beitz. A German story . W. Heyne, Munich 2011, pp. 169f.
  11. ↑ The move from justice to politics . In: Frankfurter Neue Presse March 26, 20120
  12. ↑ HR: Hessenschau from February 27, 2011, 7:30 p.m.
  13. ^ Adolf Morlang / Klaus-Peter Hartmann : Boycotted - Emigrated - Deported - Liquidated . Sources on the history of the Jews in the Diez area during National Socialism. Ed .: Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation . 1st edition. Aartal Druck und Verlag GmbH, Diez, Limburg 1999, ISBN 3-922181-20-1 , p. 34 .
  14. ↑ Investigation of the district home nurse Dr. Marie-Luise Crone in the Nazi past of Heinz Wolf, former district administrator of the Limburg-Weilburg district. At the request of the Die Linke parliamentary group, it was made available to the parliamentary groups in the district council on April 27, 2012 and thus to the public.
  15. ^ Ralf Euler: perpetrators, victims, opportunists . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 19, 2012.
  16. ↑ Helga Panitzky, you took my father from me. ISBN 978-3-8423-8395-1 , Books on Demand, Norderstedt, 2011.
  17. ↑ Ex-District Administrator with Nazi past , Hessenschau from April 27, 2012  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hr-online.de  
  18. ^ Nassauische Neue Presse: "Heinz-Wolf-Halle" is renamed , April 27, 2012
  19. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: hr-online: honorary citizen unworthy for signs )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hr-online.de
  20. ^ Nassauische Neue Presse: Heinz Wolf disappeared from the scene. Published on May 14, 2012. Accessed on May 28, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Heinrich Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolf, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and politician (CDU)
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Limburg on the Lahn
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1984
Place of death Limburg on the Lahn