Johann Dannegger

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Johann Dannegger (alias Johann Danzinger ) (born August 17, 1905 in Danzig ; † unknown) was a German lawyer and was presiding judge at the 5th criminal chamber and deputy presiding judge of the III. Criminal Chamber at the Special Court in Prague .

Life

In Breslau , where his parents also lived, he attended high school. He studied law at the University of Wroclaw . The course and the doctorate to Dr. jur. he graduated in 1929.

He decided to pursue a career as a judge and began his training in Wroclaw as a trainee lawyer at the local court and then at the regional court. Further training stations took place at the local courts in Glatz , Leobschütz , Ohlau and in Weißwasser .

On May 1, 1933, he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 2.032.882). On November 1st of that year he also became a member of the SA . In 1937 he ended this membership in the SA because of "work overload". He was able to officially change his name Danzinger to Dannegger in 1937 .

In Reichenstein he had been a member of the local court judge since November 1, 1938. In 1941 he was transferred to the special court at the German regional court in Prague with the rank of regional judge. Here he judged, interrupted by periods of service in the Wehrmacht, up to 1945 at two criminal panels.

At the Prague Special Court he was involved in the formation of death sentences in at least 29 cases. In Czechoslovakia he was wanted on the list of war criminals under the number A-38/64 after the Second World War . He was also included in the Alphabetical index of war criminals list of the United Nations War Crimes Commission .

After brief employment with various lawyers, he worked as an assistant judge in the district of the OLG Hamm from November 5, 1948. On April 1, 1951, he came to the district court of Wiedenbrück as a local judge. With effect from May 1, 1953, he was promoted to chief magistrate. Until his early retirement in May 1961, he was employed as a senior magistrate in Wiedenbrück .

Judgments (selection)

  • November 13, 1942 (Az .: 6 KLs 100/42): Jaroslaus Matousek (born October 27, 1915) from Bielohrad to death for attempted fraud
  • 1943 (Ref .: 5 KL 254/43 - 1705) August 27: at the request of prosecutor Werner Rhode was Wenzel Vavra (born December 14, 1886 in Biesno) to death as " public enemy sentenced" for theft
  • April 12, 1944 (Ref .: 3 KLs 53/44 - III - 567/44): Josef Hocke from Prague (born May 1, 1894) to death because of the multiple granting of shelter for the resistance fighter Major Hlavin at lunchtime in one Storage room. Hocke, who under the circumstances had to assume that he was facing an enemy of the Reich , did not report him to the Gestapo .
  • June 28, 1944 (Ref .: 7 KLs 166/44 - 1025): Franz Svatek (born August 19, 1890) from Rotkirchen to death due to sabotage . He had shown two Soviet prisoners of war the way to Prague and had a five-minute conversation with them. The accusation consisted in providing advice to enemies of the Reich .
  • December 6, 1944 (Az .: 4 KLs 303/44 - III - 2155/44): at the request of Chief Public Prosecutor Dr. Franz Ludwig , the Prague clergyman and religion teacher Prof. Karel Kratina (born February 15, 1881) was sentenced to death for sabotage through continued insidious remarks , as he had told political jokes.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erich Stockhorst: Five thousand heads: Who was was in the Third Reich , Blick + Bild Verlag, 1967, p. 98
personal data
SURNAME Dannegger, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Danzinger, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH after 1961