Heinrich Grützner

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Heinrich Grützner (born April 27, 1905 in Kirchberg / Hunsrück , † March 13, 1974 in Bonn ) was Ministerialrat in the Federal Ministry of Justice .

Life

After attending school, Grützner studied law at the Universities of Königsberg , Heidelberg and Berlin . On July 15, 1930 he was appointed assessor . After the murder of Kurt von Schleicher in the context of the Röhm affair , Justice Minister Gürtner and his HR manager Nadler hid on the night of June 30/1. July 1934 the investigation files intended for destruction in the personal file of assessor Grützner. They were found there after 1945 and helped clear up the murder case.

On December 16, 1934, Grützner was appointed public prosecutor at the Superior Court in Neuruppin . In 1941 he was appointed the first public prosecutor there.

After the Second World War, Grützner worked in the Federal Ministry of Justice in Bonn from 1951 , where he was promoted to the Upper Government Council and later to the Ministerial Council. In 1970 he retired as head of the international criminal law department.

Since 1957 Grützner was also a member - later a member of the board and until 1966 Vice-President - of the European Committee on Criminal Law Problems .

Awards

Works

Grützner is the founder of the loose-leaf work for international mutual legal assistance in criminal matters . As a former research assistant to Prof. Karl Klee , Grützner was the new sole editor from 1953 to 1974 of Goltdammer's Archive for Criminal Law , formerly the Archive for Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure , published 1920–1933 by Prof. Karl Klee

Fonts

  • The equalization of advantages and equity with references to Austrian, Swiss, French and English law. 1932 (dissertation)

swell

  • Goltdammers Archives for Criminal Law. Issue 4/2005

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Gritschneder: “Der Führer” sentenced you to death - Hitler's Röhm Putsch murders in court. Beck, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-406-37651-7 , p. 41 f .; Lothar Gruchmann: Justice in the Third Reich 1933–1940. Adaptation and submission in the Gürtner era . 3rd edition, Oldenbourg, Munich 2001, p. 446.
  2. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Grützner, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchberg (Hunsrück)
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1974
Place of death Bonn