Heinrich Reinle

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Heinrich Reinle (born November 1, 1892 in Offenburg , † April 9, 1945 in Sinsheim ) was a German lawyer and at the time of National Socialism, President of the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court .

Life

Heinrich Reinle was the son of the engine driver Jakob Reinle (1860–1921) and his wife Marie, née Ritter (1866–1932). He completed his school education in 1911 at the Offenburg grammar school with the final examination. From 1911 to 1915 he studied law at the universities of Munich, Geneva, Berlin, Freiburg and Heidelberg, which he passed in 1915 with the first state examination in law. He then reported as a volunteer during the First World War , but did not go to war until his discharge from the army as "only fit for garrison service" in early 1916. He then completed his legal clerkship and passed the second state examination in 1920. Since 1921 he was married to Elisabeth Berta, nee Frey (1898–1975); the couple had three children.

Joined the Baden judicial service, he was initially a public prosecutor in Mannheim from 1921 . From 1927 he was a judge at the Philippsburg District Court and was temporarily seconded to the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court as an assistant judge. From 1931 he was a judge at the Wiesloch District Court .

In 1918 he was a member of the German Fatherland Party and from 1921 to 1923 was a member of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund, where he was a leading member of the board. At the beginning of March 1932 he became a member of the NSDAP (membership number 966.919), for which he held functions at the municipal level as district legal authority, district training leader and local group leader in Wiesloch . As a result of his commitment to the party, Reinle was warned by his superior. After the seizure of power of the Nazis , he served from 1933 in Nazi Rechtswahrerbund as Gauführer and Gauorganisationsleiter. In addition, he joined the Reich Air Protection Association and the NSV in 1934 and was a member of the Nazi war victims' pension .

At the beginning of the Nazi era, Reinle entered the service of the Baden Ministry of Justice in March 1933 and was promoted to senior government councilor the month after that and to ministerial councilor at the beginning of November 1933. From 1935 he took over the executive duties of the ministerial director. In the spring of 1935 he became president of the senate and deputy court president at the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court. He decided on his personal details entirely in the National Socialist spirit, as he proteged party members and helped dismiss Jewish lawyers. Due to his National Socialist sentiments and his party-political engagement, he was appointed President of the Higher Regional Court in Karlsruhe at the beginning of June 1937; He also carried out this function in the interests of the Nazi rulers. During the Second World War Reinle was entrusted by Gauleiter Robert Wagner with the management of the administration of justice in German-occupied Alsace .

Reinle took part in the conference of the highest lawyers of the German Reich on April 23 and 24, 1941 in Berlin , at which Viktor Brack and Werner Heyde informed those present about the murder of sick and disabled people in the gas chambers of Action T4 and in this context also received knowledge of the "pseudo legalization of the murder of the sick" by Franz Schlegelberger . After the war-related relocation of departments of the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court to Sinsheim in December 1944, Reinle committed suicide there by shooting when the US Army marched in on April 9, 1945.

After the end of the war he was posthumously denazified as a fellow traveler as a result of a judicial chamber proceeding , which earned the bereaved pensions.

literature

  • Badische Biographien , New Series 6, pp. 309–312.
  • Moritz von Köckritz: The German Higher Regional Court Presidents in National Socialism (1933-1945) (= legal history series 413), Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-61791-5 , pp. 293ff. (not evaluated)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Second edition, Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 489