Josef Augstein
Josef Augstein (born August 25, 1909 in Bingen , † October 23, 1984 in Hanover ) was a German lawyer and the older brother of the Spiegel editor Rudolf Augstein .
Life
Josef Augstein moved with his family to Hanover at the age of six. His father Friedrich Augstein was a Catholic and a photo merchant who advertised his offers as "Photo Augstein". After attending the Goethe Gymnasium , Josef studied law in Munich, Berlin and Göttingen , where he received his doctorate in 1932 with his dissertation The Problem of Special Duties in Association Law. As a student, Augstein became a member of the Catholic student union Saxonia-Munich in the KV . After a brief activity as a district judge, Augstein settled as a lawyer in Hanover and then became a defense attorney before the Hanover National Socialist Special Court .
After taking part in the war, he worked as a lawyer and notary again in Hanover until his death. Augstein made a name for himself as one of the best-known defense lawyers in the Federal Republic of Germany and represented Timm Ulrichs , Werner Pätsch , Hans Habe , Peter Homann , Rolf Hochhuth , Albert Osswald , Hans Filbinger and the surgeon Axel Dohrn , who sterilized 1,390 women , in numerous media-relevant litigation . As part of the Spiegel affair he was sitting on 4 December 1962 on suspicion of complicity in treason six days remand .
Augstein also represented Hermann Josef Abs in his trial against Eberhard Czichon and his publisher Manfred Pahl-Rugenstein because of Czichon's work on the role of Deutsche Bank in the Third Reich.
Augstein is one of the founders of the White Ring .
Fonts
- The problem of special obligations in association law , dissertation in Göttingen, 1932.
- with Rudolf Wassermann (ed.): Terrorism contra Rechtsstaat , in the series Demokratie und Rechtsstaat , Vol. 31. Darmstadt, Neuwied: Luchterhand, 1976, ISBN 3-472-61216-9 .
literature
- Klaus Mlynek : AUGSTEIN, (1) Josef. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 33 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
- Klaus Mlynek: Augstein, (1) Josef. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 37.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Klaus Mlynek: Augstein, Josef (see literature)
- ↑ standard data entry (GND 123,504,708 ) of the German National Library . Query date: December 16, 2016.
- ↑ Died. Josef Augstein . In: Der Spiegel . No. 44 , 1984, pp. 276 ( online ).
- ↑ Dirk Böttcher, Hannoversches biographical lexicon: from the beginnings to the present , Schlütersche, 2002, p. 33
- ^ Moritz Pfeil: Axel Dohrn and the consequences . In: Der Spiegel . No. 45 , 1964, pp. 72 ( online ).
- ↑ Theo Sommer, “Something will happen soon!” , Die Zeit 43/2002
- ↑ Processes: Section. Another jerk . In: Der Spiegel . No. 43 , 1970, pp. 128-131 ( online ).
- ↑ Banks: Paragraph. Completely pure . In: Der Spiegel . No. 46 , 1970, pp. 119-120 ( online ).
- ↑ White Ring: Chronicle. History of the White Ring ( Memento from July 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) . Retrieved June 29, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Augstein, Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and brother of the Spiegel publisher Rudolf Augstein |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 25, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 23, 1984 |
| Place of death | Hanover |