Hubert Schrübbers

Hubert Schrübbers (born November 3, 1907 (according to other information February 3, 1901 ) in Recklinghausen , † September 26, 1979 in Unterach am Attersee ) was a German lawyer and from 1955 to 1972 President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution .

Life

Schrübbers studied law and became a member of AV Guestfalia Tübingen in the CV during his studies . He later joined the SA storm in Münster. From 1938 to 1941 he was prosecutor in Bochum, Dortmund, Arnsberg, then as senior public prosecutor at the Hamm Higher Regional Court in various proceedings against those who were racially and politically persecuted by the Nazi regime: for example, the Jewish woman Anna Neubeck was declared on March 31, 1941 according to Schrübber's application ' Sentenced to two and a half years in prison for collecting money for other refugees while in exile in Belgium. Neubeck was never released and died on January 1, 1943 in Auschwitz concentration camp . In 1941 Schrübbers had to interrupt his activity and became a soldier.

He served as a sergeant in a police unit of the SS and was taken prisoner of war in Chaumont (Haute-Marne) , France , where, following Resistance activities in the area, the Germans arrested 20 men in January and executed eleven of them on March 18. In 1946 he returned from British captivity. According to Aust / Laabs, he was recruited by the British secret service during this time, which makes his subsequent career in the British occupation zone plausible.

In 1948 Schrübbers was appointed Chief Public Prosecutor at the Supreme Court for the British Zone , 1950 Federal Prosecutor at the Federal Court of Justice , and in 1953 Attorney General at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court . On August 1, 1955, he was appointed President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. During his term of office Werner Pätsch uncovered the "telephone tapping affair " of 1963, which brought him the charge of breach of the constitution and finally led to the enactment of the law on Article 10 of the Basic Law in 1968 . He was accused of hiring former SS members at the BfV. On April 30, 1972, Schrübbers was retired after allegations of his involvement in the Nazi judiciary; regular retirement would have taken place in the same year anyway.

See also

• Terrible lawyers
• Unpunished Nazi justice

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} S. Aust u. D. Laabs, "Heimatschutz. The state and the series of murders of the NSU", Munich 2014, p. 80.
2. ↑ Protection of the Constitution - Nothing Immoral , SPIEGEL No. 5/1972, p. 26.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Short biography at the Federal Archives .
4. ↑ The will must be broken , DER SPIEGEL No. 5/1972, p. 27; there named with the compulsory first name Sarah.
5. ↑ Unsuccessful protection , DER SPIEGEL No. 6/1972, p. 27 f.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Hubert Schrübbers in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
7. ↑ S. Aust u. D. Laabs, "Heimatschutz. The state and the series of murders of the NSU", Munich 2014, p. 80; it is probably the Chaumont in the Haute-Marne, since the place is "north" of his previous place of activity, there were also striking Resistance activities here. British troops were also active here to a greater extent on the side of the liberators.
8. ↑ Absolutely safe source . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 1963, pp. 25th f . ( online - October 2, 1963 ).
9. ↑ Good conscience . In: Der Spiegel . No. 38 , 1963, pp. 19th f . ( online - September 18, 1963 ).
10. ^ The Right-Wing Rot at the Heart of the German State . (English, nytimes.com [accessed October 17, 2018]).
11. ↑ The Fallen Chiefs of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. Retrieved October 17, 2018 . 
12. ↑ Joachim Käppner: "Better now than not at all". After 68 years, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution has its employees systematically researched into the Nazi past , Süddeutsche Zeitung of September 28, 2011, p. 6.