Joachim Bergmann (lawyer)

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Joachim Bergmann

Joachim Bergmann (born August 17, 1906 in Koblenz , † August 24, 1974 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German lawyer.

Life

As the son of Major General Maximilian Bergmann and his wife Else geb. Domnes made Bergmann in 1924 the Abitur in Waren (Müritz) . After a bank apprenticeship in Braunschweig , he studied law at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , the Sorbonne , the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin and the Albertus University in Königsberg , where he took his legal traineeship in 1930. In 1931 he was promoted to Dr. iur. PhD . After the Assessor exam 1934 he was consultant in the Ministry of Economic Affairs in 1937, Regierungsassessor and Regierungsrat in the Prussian State Ministry .

In 1930 he became authorized signatory in the central secretariat of Deutsche Bank in Berlin, 1940–1941 consultant for the occupied territories at the commissioner for the four-year plan in Berlin , Krakow and Brussels . In the Wehrmacht he served from 1941 to 1945 as a senior war administrator and military administration department head on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief Southwest . From May to September 1945 he was in automatic arrest . From January 29, 1948 he was co-defender of Paul Körner in the Wilhelmstrasse trial alongside Justus Koch and Gerhard Rauschenbach . In 1949, Bergmann became a criminal defense lawyer at the verdict court in Bielefeld and, beginning in the same year, worked as an economic advisor in Düsseldorf and Bonn , from 1951 as a lawyer in Düsseldorf and as an economic policy advisor in Bonn. In 1953 he established himself as a lawyer in Frankfurt am Main and became a notary in 1961 .

Bergmann was married to Erna Lepa since 1940. Owner from Tilsit and since 1953 used with Marga von Hermann. Spürck from Cologne. He was a member of the Corps Rhenania Tübingen (1927), the Corps Masovia (1959) and the Corps Palaiomarchia (1960). In the last two years of his life he was Chairman of the Honorary Council of Rhenania Tübingen.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. The verdict in the Wilhelmstrassen trial: The official wording of the decision in case no.11 of the Nuremberg Military Tribunal against von Weizsäcker and others, with differing reasons for the verdict, rectification decisions, the basic legal provisions, a list of court persons and witnesses and introductions, Schwäbisch Gmünd, 1950 , P. Xxi; Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10, Washington / DC, 1949-1953, Volume 12, p. 10
  2. a b Corps newspaper of Rhenania Tübingen, 1974, pp. 117 and 155
  3. Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 128/847; 87/1210
  4. ^ List of all members of the Corps Masovia 1823–2005 . Potsdam 2006