Herbert David

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Herbert David

Herbert David (born May 6, 1900 in Jechnitz as Herbert Friedrich David ; † June 1, 1985 in Springe ) was a German lawyer, politician ( NSDAP ) and SS leader . David was Nazi politicians in his home, which according to the " connection " of the Sudetenland to the German Reich in Nazi Reichstag moved. After the Second World War he was charged, but ultimately acquitted.

Career

David was born in Jechnitz in 1900 as the son of the imperial court adjunct Emanuel David (born April 14, 1869 in Auscha ) and his wife Gisela born. Ehrenfeld (born April 16, 1873 in Bärenstein in Saxony). He attended high school in Leitmeritz . Between mid-March 1918 and end in October 1918 David took the soldier as Imperial Army on the part of Austria-Hungary in the First World War in part. After completing his school career David studied 1920-1924 jurisprudence at the University of Prague and Leipzig . From October 1925 to May 1926 he served in the Czechoslovak military. After his return doctorate David 1926 Dr. jur. and was then a trainee lawyer. After he passed the major state examination on December 19, 1930, he worked as an independent lawyer in Leitmeritz from May 20, 1931. He was a member of the DNSAP and until the party's dissolution in autumn 1933 as the party's local leader in Leitmeritz. In the so-called popular sport trial , he was the defender of Hans Krebs . After David himself was under police supervision from September 1933 to December 1934, he switched to the SdP . There he became head of the legal office in 1936 and was a member of the leadership council from February 1937.

After the supplementary election on December 4, 1938, David became a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for the Sudeten German territories that had been added to the German Reich by the Munich Agreement . Until the spring of 1945, David was a member of the Reichstag for the NSDAP, as the SdP was incorporated into the NSDAP as early as autumn 1938. David now belonged to the NSDAP (membership number 6,607,924) and from March 1939 also to the SS (membership number 314,954), in which he achieved the rank of Oberführer. In March 1939 David was appointed President of the Higher Regional Court in Leitmeritz . Later he was still head of the Gaurechtsamt in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and district administrator of the Nazi legal guardian association . He was called up for military service, but was initially made indispensable at the request of the Reich Minister of Justice. From mid-February 1942 to mid-September 1942, David was still employed as a member of the Waffen-SS at SS and police courts in Munich and the Eastern Front. On August 15, 1944, David was punished with a severe reprimand on behalf of Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler due to disciplinary proceedings . He had previously driven to the hunt in his company car, and it is said that he did not behave appropriately at the food office in Leitmeritz. In September 1944, he was transferred to a unit of the Waffen SS by Himmler. Ernst Dürig represented David as President of the Higher Regional Court in Leitmeritz.

At the end of the war, David came to Bavaria and was interned in a prisoner-of-war camp from May 11, 1945 to May 20, 1947. In addition, he underwent an award procedure in Mühldorf and was classified as the main accused on July 16, 1946, while the Appeals Chamber in Munich later classified him as a minor offender. David later received pensions from the state of Lower Saxony due to his work as President of an OLG. A criminal investigation began in 1960 against David and 19 other formerly high-ranking Nazi lawyers, as they are said to have taken part in a conference in Berlin on April 23 and 24, 1941, at which the OLG presidents discussed the National Socialist murders of the " Action T4 " were informed. With no evidence of David attending the meeting, the allegation of aiding and abetting murder was dropped and David's prosecution was suspended.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herbert David in the database of the members of the Reichstag
  2. a b Joachim Lilla (editor): extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 2004, pp. 157–158.
  3. Erich Stockhorst: 5000 heads - Who was what in the Third Reich , Kiel 2000, 99 f.
  4. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 103
  5. a b Ernst Klee: What they did - What they became. Doctors, lawyers and others involved in the murder of the sick or Jews , Frankfurt am Main 2004, p. 261 f.
  6. a b Hanno Loewy, Bettina Winter (ed.): NS- "Euthanasia" before court , 1996, p. 170 f.
  7. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 121