Karl Bruchhaus

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Karl Bruchhaus (born February 26, 1903 ; † after 1980) was a German lawyer. As a senior public prosecutor at the People's Court, he participated in numerous death sentences from the Nazi war justice system.

Life and activity

After attending school, Bruchhaus studied law. On June 8, 1928 , he received his doctorate from the University of Cologne as Dr. jur.

At the beginning of the Second World War , Bruchhaus, whom Volker Hoffmann describes as “a man of the second generation of Nazi lawyers”, was appointed as a prosecutor at the People's Court. According to the information in the Brown Book on war criminals in the Federal Republic, which was created in the German Democratic Republic after the Second World War , Bruchhaus was in his capacity as first public prosecutor and enforcement officer at the Oberreichsanwalt (representative of the Oberreichsanwaltes at the People's Court) during the war years as a prosecutor in at least 33 of this court implicated death sentences. Due to the large number of people that Bruchhaus had handed over to the executioner during the war, the journalist Walter Oehme later came to the conclusion, after reviewing the files of the People's Court, that Bruchhaus' name was like "the spirit of evil and annihilation" the case law of the People's Court.

Alois Geiger's Death Sentence
( September 8, 1943 )

Participation in death sentences of the People's Court

Bruchhaus was involved in the following death sentences as a prosecutor at the People's Court and was ultimately responsible for the executions that followed, as he had demanded the death penalty:

After 1945

After the Second World War, Bruchhaus served as senior public prosecutor at the Wuppertal district court . In 1961 he retired early, but with full pay.

In February 1958, at the instigation of the widow of Adam Leis , who was sentenced to death and executed during the war on an application submitted by Bruchhaus as a representative of the public prosecutor's office, Adam Leis was put to death again in July of the same year.

A criminal complaint filed against Bruchhaus by the Association of those persecuted by the Nazi regime in 1980 was not prosecuted.

Fonts

  • The acquisition of processing under civil law , Cologne 1928.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Hoffmann: Hanno Günther, a Hitler opponent , Berlin 1992, p. 157.
  2. ↑ Brown Book. War and Nazi criminals in the Federal Republic and West Berlin . 3rd edition Berlin (East) 1968, p. 118 ( text on the Internet ( Memento of March 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive )).
  3. ^ Walter Oehme: Ehrlos für immer , 1962, p. 60.
  4. ^ "Easy cases?" , In: Der Spiegel from February 17, 1960.
personal data
SURNAME Bruchhaus, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1903
DATE OF DEATH after 1980