Heinrich Ebersberg

Heinrich Ebersberg as a witness at the Nuremberg trials

Ebersberg 1949

Karl Ernst Wilhelm Heinrich Ebersberg (born July 30, 1911 in Nordhausen am Harz , † 1976) was a German lawyer and high ministerial official in the German Empire and then in the Federal Republic . During the time of National Socialism he was personal assistant to the Reich Minister of Justice , from 1954 Ministerialrat in the Federal Ministry of Justice (BMJ).

Life

Career until 1945

Heinrich Ebersberg joined the SA in 1933 and the NSDAP in 1937 . In October 1938 - at the age of 27 - Ebersberg began to work for the Reich Ministry of Justice (RMJ), and the following year he was appointed regional judge. There he took the position of "First Public Prosecutor in the RJM" and was the second personal advisor to the Reich Minister of Justice Franz Schlegelberger and, from August 1942, the second personal advisor to his successor Otto Thierack . On 23/24 In April 1941, Ebersberg took part in the “Conference of the Highest Jurists in the Reich” in Berlin , at which the destruction of “life unworthy of life” using gas was discussed; among others, Viktor Brack and Werner Heyde gave lectures. From the RMJ, the State Secretary and Acting Minister Schlegelberger, State Secretary Roland Freisler , the ministerial directors Max Nadler and Schneller, ministerial director Werner Vogels , and the ministerial councilors Wilhelm von Ammon , Fritz Dörffler and Ebersberg were present. In mid / late February 1943 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and returned to his post in the Reich Ministry of Justice in November 1943, during which time Heinrich Anz was Thierack's second personal advisor. In 1944 Ebersberg was promoted to SA storm leader. In November of the same year he was appointed higher regional judge.

Career after 1945

In 1949 Ebersberg was appointed district court advisor in Lower Saxony . From 1954 he was a Ministerialrat in the Federal Ministry of Justice (BMJ). There he headed sub-department III B, which was responsible for antitrust and monopoly law within department III (commercial and economic law) .

Ebersberg was one of the few officials in the Ministry of Justice for whom the Nazi burden had professional consequences. With reference to his continuous career in the justice ministries before and after 1945, Ebersberg was listed together with 1,800 business leaders, politicians and leading officials of the Federal Republic in the Brown Book first published in 1965 by the GDR for propaganda purposes .

When a promotion was due in 1969, his previous personnel files were routinely reviewed. Thereupon Ebersberg, who was sub-department head, was demoted to head of department and remained in this position until his retirement. Investigative and disciplinary proceedings were initiated in which Ebersberg was accused of having previously dealt with the “correction of insufficient judicial judgments through special police treatment ”; Convicts who were supposedly insufficiently punished and unable to improve were handed over to the Gestapo . Ebersberg claimed not to have known that the transfer for "special treatment" meant certain death. The proceedings were discontinued. Ebersberg was a participant in the conference on 23/24 in the summer of 1968. April 1941 was questioned about Operation T4 , but this was not the subject of further proceedings against him.

literature

• Stadtarchiv Nordhausen: Nordhausen personalities from 11 centuries. Edited group of authors under the direction of Hans-Jürgen Grönke , Klaus-Jörg Barthel u. a. Geiger, Horb 2009 ISBN 978-3-86595-336-0

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Ebersberg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 124. ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 . (Updated 2nd edition)
2. ↑ Marc von Miquel: Punish or amnesty? West German Justice and Politics of the Past in the Sixties . Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2004, p. 385. ISBN 3-89244-748-9 .
3. ↑ ^{a b} Ernst Klee: What they did - What they became. Doctors, lawyers and others involved in the murder of the sick or Jews , Frankfurt am Main 2004, p. 258
4. ^ Protocol printed by Ernst Klee: Documents on 'Euthanasia' , Frankfurt / M. 1985, ISBN 3-596-24327-0 , pp. 216-218.
5. ↑ Helmut Kramer : “Hold a court day over yourself” - Fritz Bauer's procedure for the participation of the judiciary in institutional murder . In: Hanno Loewy and Bettina Winter: Nazi “euthanasia” in court: Fritz Bauer and the limits of legal coping. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1996, p. 117, footnote 14. ISBN 3-593-35442-X .
6. ↑ The Federal Republic of Germany - State Handbook , partial edition of the Federation. Heymann, Cologne 1966, p. 20. ZDB -ID 220436-8
7. ↑ Norbert Podewin (Ed.): "Brown Book". War and Nazi criminals in the Federal Republic and West Berlin. State, economy, administration, army, justice, science . Edition Ost, Berlin 2002. ISBN 3-360-01033-7 (reprint of the 3rd edition from 1968). List entry on Heinrich Ebersberg ( Memento of the original from June 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . (Retrieved February 22, 2009.) 
8. ^ Manfred Görtemaker, Christoph Safferling: The Rosenburg files. The Federal Ministry of Justice and the Nazi era. Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-406-69768-5 , p. 340.
9. ↑ Thierack's report on a meeting with Himmler on September 18, 1942 = Document 654-PS printed by IMT: The Nuremberg Trial against the Major War Criminals ... , fotomech. Reprint Munich 1989, ISBN 3-7735-2521-4 , documents vol. 26, here p. 201.
10. ^ Manfred Görtemaker, Christoph Safferling: The Rosenburg files. The Federal Ministry of Justice and the Nazi era. Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-406-69768-5 , pp. 340–342.
11. ↑ Ebersberg p. 67; uncritical