Heinz Artzt

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Heinz Artzt (* 1910 in Plauen ; † after 1979) was a German lawyer.

Life

Little is known about Heinz Artzt's life. It was in 1937 at the University of Leipzig with the legal dissertation The Reich governor in Community State Dr. jur. PhD . In 1937 he became a member of the NSDAP and was also a Rottenführer in the NSKK . From 1942 he was a public prosecutor in Chemnitz .

After the end of the Second World War , Artzt became the first public prosecutor in Braunschweig . In 1960 he was seconded to the central office of the state judicial administrations for the investigation of National Socialist crimes in Ludwigsburg , where he was deputy head of the department from 1963 to 1975, i.e. even before the considerable personnel and organizational reinforcement that took place in 1965. Artzt was in the central office in Ludwigsburg, like its director Erwin Schüle , whom he often had to represent, not the only former National Socialist. Schüle was replaced by Adalbert Rückerl in 1966 because of his Nazi past .

Artzt headed the France department at the Central Office with the rank of senior public prosecutor. On the one hand, he investigated the shooting of hostages by the Wehrmacht and, on the other hand, the actors involved in the German persecution of Jews in France and evaluated files from the French military courts and holdings in the Center de documentation juive contemporaine (CDJC), as well as the files at the Berlin Document Center . His research results on Herbert Hagen , Ernst Heinrichsohn , Helmut Bone , Kurt Lischka and Heinz Röthke were already available in 1965 . The investigations in France were thwarted on the German side by FDP politician Ernst Achenbach and the Foreign Office , who opted for an amnesty for the murderers by blocking the Franco-German additional agreement on the transition agreement and the statute of limitations. The courts, to which Artzt submitted prepared cases for litigation, sometimes destroyed his preparatory work by delaying appointments.

Artzt was replaced in the France department by public prosecutor Herbert Schneider and retired in 1975. It was not until 1980 that the Cologne trial ended with the conviction of Hagen, Heinrichsohn and Lischka.

Artzt published the book Murderers in Uniform in 1979 , with a foreword by Gert Bastian .

Fonts

  • The Reich Governor in the Community State . Dresden: Dittert 1937. Zugl .: Leipzig, Jur. Diss.
  • To differentiate between war crimes and Nazi crimes , in: Adalbert Rückerl (Ed.): NS processes. After 25 years of prosecution: Possibilities - Limits - Results , Müller: Karlsruhe 1971, pp. 163–194
  • Murderers in Uniform: Organizations that became the perpetrators of National Socialist crimes . With a foreword by Gert Bastian. Kindler, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-463-00766-5 .

literature

  • Bernhard Brunner: The France Complex. The National Socialist Crimes in France and the Justice of the Federal Republic of Germany . Wallstein, Göttingen 2004
  • Annette Weinke : A society is investigating itself: the history of the central office in Ludwigsburg 1958–2008 . Publications by the Ludwigsburg Research Center at the University of Stuttgart. Darmstadt: WBG 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leipzig University Archives / History: Doctorates of all faculties from 1810 to 1991 ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www.archiv.uni-leipzig.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.archiv.uni-leipzig.de
  2. ↑ a b c Annette Weinke: A society investigates against itself , 2009, p. 198, fn. 24
  3. ↑ a b Rarely scruples. Many new books on the National Socialist era at the Frankfurt Book Fair: Their educational value is doubtful . In: Der Spiegel . No. 41 , 1979 ( online ).
  4. ^ Katrin Stoll: The production of the truth: criminal proceedings against former members of the security police for the Białystok district . Berlin: De Gruyter 2012, p. 131
  5. ↑ Michael Greve: The judicial and legal political handling of the Nazi violent crimes in the sixties . Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2001, pp. 332-348
  6. ↑ Annette Weinke: A society investigates against itself , 2009, p. 90
  7. ↑ Bernhard Brunner: The France Complex , 2004, p. 196
  8. ↑ Bernhard Brunner: The France Complex , 2004, p. 204 f.
  9. ↑ Annette Weinke: A society determines against itself , 2009, p. 146
  10. ↑ Bernhard Brunner: The France Complex , 2004, p. 222
  11. ^ Bernhard Brunner: The France Complex , 2004, p. 260, p. 316
  12. ^ Bernhard Brunner: The France Complex , 2004, p. 260
personal data
SURNAME Doctor, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Plauen
DATE OF DEATH after 1979