Herbert Klemm
Herbert Klemm (born May 15, 1903 in Leipzig ; † after 1961) was a German lawyer and State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Justice (RJM) at the time of National Socialism .
biography
Klemm completed his law studies with the second state examination in 1929 and then worked for the public prosecutor in Dresden until 1933. In January 1931 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 405.576) and in June 1933 the SA . In the SA he achieved the rank of Oberführer. At first he was a liaison officer between the SA and the Saxon Minister of Justice and from 1935 a liaison officer between the SA Chief of Staff and the Reich Minister of Justice.
From March 1933 to March 1935 he was personal adviser and adjutant to the Saxon Minister of Justice Otto Thierack . After that he was employed at the RJM and reached the position of Ministerialrat in April 1939. Klemm was appointed by General Commissioner for Administration and Justice Friedrich Wimmer from July 1940 as head of the Justice Group in the occupied Netherlands . Klemm, who was friends with Martin Bormann , was transferred to the "Deputy Leader" staff in March 1941 , which later became the Party Chancellery and was subordinate to Gerhard Klopfer . From January 1944 until the end of the war he was State Secretary in the RJM under Thierack and from September 1944 also held the position of deputy head of the National Socialist Legal Guards Association , to which he had belonged since 1933.
From May 5, 1945 he was Reich Minister of Justice in the Schwerin von Krosigk cabinet , which formed the executive government of the Reich until partially after the surrender of the Wehrmacht and was arrested on May 23, 1945.
In the Nuremberg legal process against 16 high-ranking judicial officers and judges of the Nazi regime , he was sentenced to life imprisonment by an American military tribunal on December 14, 1947 . The following acts, among others, were taken into account when reaching a verdict:
- the general rejection of appeals for clemency in the case of death sentences against those abducted from France, Belgium and the Netherlands with the night and fog decrees ,
- his knowledge and his supervision of legal regulations with which "the application of the German juvenile criminal law was denied to Poles, Jews and Gypsies",
- participation in inciting lynchings of Allied airmen ,
- responsibility for the evacuation of the Sonnenburg prison , during which over 800 prisoners were shot by the Gestapo.
On February 14, 1957, he was released from the Landsberg War Crimes Prison and settled in Essen-Bredeney . At the beginning of April 1957 he moved from Essen to Starnberg . In 1961 he moved within Starnberg. Nothing is known about his further life after August 1961.
literature
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
- Lore Maria Peschel-Gutzeit (Ed.): The Nuremberg jurists' judgment of 1947. Historical context and current references. 1st edition. Nomos-Verlags-Gesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1996, ISBN 3-7890-4528-4 .
Web links
- Herbert Klemm at www.mazal.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Herbert Klemm at www.mazal.org
- ↑ Juristen Judgment, Der Angeklahre Klemm , pp. 147–164, here: p. 147
- ↑ a b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 315.
- ^ Juristen judgment, pp. 150, 153
- ^ Juristen judgment, p. 157ff
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klemm, Herbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Justice |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 15, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century or 21st century |