Heinrich Seesemann (lawyer)

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Heinrich Seesemann (born March 22, 1898 in Denstedt near Weimar , † September 23, 1980 in Darmstadt ) was a German lawyer , senior public prosecutor and NS desk operator .

Life

Seesemann's father was the elementary school teacher Karl Seesemann, who died in 1914 . In 1900 he came to Jena on the occasion of his father's transfer . Here he attended elementary school from 1904 to 1908 and then the Carolo-Alexandrinum grammar school in Jena. In 1917 he passed the matriculation examination and studied at the University of Jena jurisprudence . In the spring of 1918 he was drafted to Saarburg (district of Trier) for a month . On May 15, 1920 Seesemann passed the first legal examination . He passed his doctorate on November 24, 1921 with his doctoral thesis “The claim from the life insurance contract in the insured person's bankruptcy”.

He married Ilse Kühn on September 1, 1921 and lived with her in Weimar, Röhrstrasse 16 II.

Work as a lawyer in the civil service

In the National Socialist Legal Guardian Association (NSRB) he was initially deputy district group leader and later deputy district leader. In addition, he was appointed as the district officer for the scientific department. In August 1937 the Reichsleiter of the Reich Law Office, Reich Minister Dr. Frank , with effect from August 15, 1938, was appointed honorary editor of the Reich Law Office, Office for Legal Literature.

Seesemann acted as a senior public prosecutor and one of the main prosecutors at the Weimar Special Court . Until the beginning of the war, this court negotiated and ruled primarily against critics of the Nazi state who were often denounced: against pastors of the Confessing Church (BK) for "pulpit abuse", against communists , social democrats , Jewish doctors, members of former communist and social democratic associations and against members of the banned Jehovah's Witnesses , the International Association of Bible Students.

To enforce the death penalty was in the atrium of the Weimar district court a guillotine erected. From November 23, 1938, all executions carried out there were recorded in a book . By January 5, 1945, a total of 123 people had been executed here (two almost every month), including five women. On January 5, 1945, beginning at 5:30 p.m., nine people were beheaded every 20 seconds. The instruction for their execution was principally given by the seaman. Each execution was also confirmed and reported by him.

After the Second World War

In 1945 he was arrested by the US occupation authorities and interned until mid-1947 . He was no longer accepted into the judicial service and worked as a lawyer in Darmstadt .

Honors

  • Awarded the Silver Gauadler Thuringia
  • War Merit Cross 1st Class without swords

literature

  • Udo Wohlfeld, Falk Burkhardt: the network. The concentration camps in Thuringia 1933–1935. A documentation on the Nohra, Bad Sulza and Buchenwald camps and the contribution by Falk Burkhardt, National Conservative Forces and the Bad Sulza Concentration Camp. Stahlhelm - Bund der Frontsoldaten , Weimar 2000, p. 77, ISBN 3-935275-01-3

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ q 10442 Heinrich Seesemann files, HStA Weimar
  2. ↑ DNB 365081345
  3. ↑ Willy Schilling: Hitler's Trutzgau. Thuringia in the Third Reich Volume I, 2005, p. 71, ISBN 3-932906-36-5
  4. ↑ Udo Wohlfeld, Falk Burkhardt: the network. The concentration camps in Thuringia 1933-1935. A documentation on the Nohra, Bad Sulza and Buchenwald camps and the contribution by Falk Burkhardt, National Conservative Forces and the Bad Sulza Concentration Camp. Stahlhelm - Bund der Frontsoldaten, Weimar 2000, p. 77, ISBN 3-935275-01-3
personal data
SURNAME Sailor, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Denstedt near Weimar
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1980
Place of death Darmstadt