Hermann Markl

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Hermann Markl (born June 8, 1908 in Radelsdorf; † 2000 ) was a German lawyer who worked as a public prosecutor in Nuremberg in 1942 in the death sentence against Leo Katzenberger for " racial disgrace ".

Life

Hermann Markl joined the SA in 1934 and the NSDAP in 1935 . As a public prosecutor, in 1942 he charged the Jewish shoe retailer Leo Katzenberger with alleged " racial disgrace ". In his indictment, Markl referred to Katzenberger as a “dangerous enemy of the people” and “the Jews are our misfortune” and “to blame for the war”. Katzenberger was sentenced to death by the Nuremberg Special Court under the direction of Oswald Rothaug and executed in June 1942. "Rassenschande" was usually punished with penitentiary ; the sentence against Katzenberger is one of only five known death sentences for this "offense".

After the end of the war, Markl testified in 1947 as a witness in the legal process against Oswald Rothaug. In the Nuremberg follow -up trial , Rothaug was first sentenced to life imprisonment and later pardoned because of the Katzenberger judgment . In 1951, Markl was reinstated as a magistrate in Bavaria and, after four years, promoted to the higher regional judge . He worked as a judge at the Munich Higher Regional Court , where he retired early in 1962 after his role in the Katzenberger trial came into the public eye through the film The Judgment of Nuremberg , and students demonstrated against him in Munich. Markl received an unreduced pension and worked as a guardian for the Catholic youth welfare in Munich.

Markl had been a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Radaspona Regensburg since 1927, later he became a member of the KDStV Vindelicia Munich.

literature

  • Markl, Hermann . In: Ernst Klee : The personal dictionary for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 , 2nd edition. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 , p. 391.
  • Justice / racial disgrace: So what . In: Der Spiegel . No. 42 , 1967, p. 87-89 ( online ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The film brought it to light . In: Die Zeit , No. 15/1962.
  2. ^ Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law No. 10 (PDF; 24.69 MB) , Vol. III, “The Justice Case”. United States Government Printing Office , Washington DC 1948, pp. 650-664.
  3. ↑ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , 2nd edition. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 391.
  4. ↑ Justice / Rassenschande: So what . In: Der Spiegel . No. 42 , 1967, p. 87-89 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Markl, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, participated in one of the few death sentences for "racial disgrace" in 1942
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Radelsdorf
DATE OF DEATH 2000