Josef Törnig

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Josef Törnig (* March 7, 1900 in Menden (Sauerland) ; † July 23, 1961 there ) was a doctor of law in Germany serving the Nazi regime.

Törnig was asked in 1924 at the University of Bonn to what extent can one crime be committed by another as an instrument? PhD.

From 1940 he was a public prosecutor and prosecutor at the III. and V. Criminal Division of the Special Court in Prague . As part of this position, he had the task of indicting the resistance against the German occupation in accordance with the given Nazi legislation and ordinances. He applied for at least eight death sentences, which were also passed by the special court. Among them, people were handed over to the executioner who had given other people accommodation for one or more nights. The death sentence (GZ: 5 K Ls 295/43) of August 5, 1943 against Marie Nedorost stands out because she advised her son to go over to the Red Army, which the latter also followed.

Nothing is known about its denazification or its whereabouts after the Second World War. At the beginning of the 1960s, Törnig was working as a senior public prosecutor in Essen , while Reinhard M. Strecker, the organizer of the exhibition Unpunished Nazi Justice , had initiated an investigation against the Prague judges and public prosecutors.

In Czechoslovakia Törnig was wanted on a list for war criminals under the number A-38/91. The United Nations War Crimes Commission also noted him on the Alphabetic index of war criminals .

literature

  • Criminals in judges' robes , Prague 1960

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register of the registry office Menden (Sauerland) No. 158/1961.
  2. ↑ NS JUDGE Easy cases? Der Spiegel of February 17, 1960. There are also other death sentences in which Törnig participated.
personal data
SURNAME Turny, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer in the service of the Nazi regime
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Menden (Sauerland)
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1961
Place of death Menden (Sauerland)