Karl August Werner
Karl August Werner (born March 14, 1876 in Mulhouse ; † October 12, 1936 ) was a German lawyer and senior Reich attorney from 1926 until his death.
Life
The son of a Protestant senior teacher passed his first state examination in law in 1897. He passed the 2nd state law examination with "good". In 1907 he became a local court advisor in Dammerkirch . The next year he became a public prosecutor in Colmar . In the First World War he was a captain in the Landwehr . At the beginning of May 1918 he became a member of the public prosecutor's office. In May 1919 he became a provisional unskilled worker at the Reich Insurance Institute for Salaried Employees . Two months later he became a temporary laborer in the Reich Ministry of Justice . He was appointed to the Privy Council and Lecturing Council in November. The next year he became a ministerial advisor . From 1923 he headed Department IV, responsible for administrative and constitutional law as well as for high and state treason matters. September 1926 he became a senior Reich attorney. The appointment was initiated by the “gray eminence” of the Weimar judiciary, Curt Joël . He was an example of the reactionary civil service at the time:
"Like Werner, Joël has his love for the republic so deeply hidden in his heart that nobody can find it."
When the proposed appointment became known in May 1926, the democratic press went by storm. Georg Bernhard , the editor-in-chief of the “ Vossische Zeitung ” wrote on May 30th that “Werner undoubtedly imagines different ideals of a state structure than that which is absolutely on the democratic-social line.” Voices from the DDP also protested, but what no use.
One day after the Boxheim documents were published in 1931, Werner played down these documents in an interview with the Telegraph Union : The violent measures they described were not directed against the current government, but against possible communist insurgents, and he did not initiate the house search. He was a prosecutor in the Reichstag fire trial . He was a party member after Robert Kempner , not after Friedrich Karl Kaul . In 1936, Reichsrechtsführer Hans Frank thanked him profusely posthumously:
“You helped us in the days of the Boxheim documents. I thank you on behalf of the Führer […] for this act […]. Your name shines among the first fighters of the movement, you were an employee of the Führer "
literature
- Friedrich Karl Kaul : History of the Reichsgericht , Volume IV (1933–1945), East Berlin 1971, p. 323.
- Klaus-Detlev Godau-Schüttke : The Federal Court of Justice - Justice in Germany. Berlin 2005, p. 29 f.
- “Personalalien”, in: Deutsche Juristen-Zeitung , year 31 (1926), column 881.
Web links
- Karl August Werner in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic
- Photo from the Leipzig City History Museum (Z0057094) on Europeana
Individual evidence
- ↑ DJZ 1926, Col. 881 gives 1910
- ^ Tilman Koops (Ed.): Files of the Reich Chancellery. Weimar Republic. The Brüning I and II cabinets. Boldt Verlag, Boppard 1982/1990, No. 574, note 15 ( online )
- ↑ Robert Kempner (Ed.): “The missed Nazi stop. The NSDAP as an anti-republican, treasonable association. Prussian memorandum of 1930 ", Frankfurt, Berlin, Vienna 1983, p. 10.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Werner, Karl August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Werner, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, senior Reich attorney (1926–1936) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 14, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mulhouse |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 12, 1936 |