Heinz Preussner

Heinz Preussner (born October 22, 1900 in Berlin ; † in the 20th century ) was a German lawyer and civil servant.

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After attending school, Preussner studied law . With assessor service on July 21, 1931 he was accepted into the civil service. In 1932 he worked in Frankfurt an der Oder . Since March 1, 1932 Preussner belonged to the NSDAP ( membership number 962.421).

In 1933, immediately after the establishment of the Secret State Police Office , Preussner was delegated from the justice administration on the recommendation of the Brandenburg Higher President Wilhelm Kube and entrusted with the management of Department VII (Center, Cultural Policy). At the end of 1933 Preussner worked temporarily for the government in Trier on behalf of the Gestapo . On February 1, 1934, Diels made it available again to the Ministry of Justice and from there transferred it to the general administration.

In 1936 Preussner was appointed regional judge and in 1937 assigned to the People's Court to handle preliminary investigations. From 1941 to 1945 he finally served as a judge at the People's Court.

Christoph Graf ruled that Preussner, as a party member who became a Gestapo official on the emphatic recommendation of leading party offices, was one of those examples that would refute the image of the Nazi Gestapo under Rudolf Diels and that it was therefore also significant that he later started his career the judicial authority that "embodied the most unambiguously arbitrary National Socialist justice".

literature

• Christoph Graf: Political police between democracy and dictatorship. 1983, p. 375.