Karl Martin (lawyer)

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Karl Heinrich Martin (born April 21, 1877 in Bunzlau ; † July 12, 1974 ) was a German lawyer and at the time of National Socialism President of the Higher Regional Court in Kiel .

Life

Karl Martin was the son of the secret government councilor and school councilor Friedrich Martin. After graduating from the humanistic grammar school in Eisleben , he studied law at the universities of Halle an der Saale, Freiburg im Breisgau and Marburg. After graduating, he passed the legal clerkship exam in 1899 and completed his legal clerkship in the district of the Kassel Higher Regional Court in Kassel. After receiving his PhD from the University of Marburg in 1903. jur. received his doctorate , he passed the assessor examination in 1904 . From 1907 he was a local judge and from 1910 for seven years assistant judge at the Kassel Higher Regional Court . During the First World War he was “temporarily in the press department of the Deputy General Command of the XI. A.-K. active in Kassel and in the Red Cross ”. After the death of his first wife Elisabeth († 1908), he married Margarete Sippell.

From 1917 to 1924 he worked in Berlin at the state legal examination institute and as an unskilled worker at the Prussian Ministry of Justice. Promoted to the Chamber of Justice, he became President of the Senate at the Higher Regional Court of Kassel in 1924 and its Vice-President in 1928. During the Weimar Republic he was a member of the DVP . Since 1933 he belonged to the NSDAP and the NS-Rechtsswahrerbund , he joined the SS in 1934. On July 16, 1933, Martin was appointed President of the Kiel Higher Regional Court. From 1937 to 1939 he was a member of the Grand Criminal Law Commission. From 1940 to 1945 he also taught as an honorary professor at the University of Kiel. On 23/24. In April 1941 he took part in the conference of the highest lawyers in the German Reich, at which the participants were informed about the mass killing of sick and disabled people using gas and the pseudo-legalization of this crime by Franz Schlegelberger . He retired in the fall of 1943. In the second half of 1944 he was briefly reactivated as President of the Higher Regional Court in Kiel.

From 1960, an investigation was carried out against former higher regional court presidents and attorneys general for supporting the systematic murder of the sick and disabled during the Nazi era, as they had been asked to cover these crimes during the conference of the highest jurists in April 1941. Martin, who at that time was domiciled in Kassel, submitted a written statement to the Kassel District Court in December 1960 and said, among other things: "I can only repeat that my memory of that conference has completely disappeared" . On May 27, 1970, the remaining lawyers in this case were put out of prosecution by the Limburg Regional Court .

literature

  • Werner Schubert : Sources for the reform of the criminal law and criminal procedure law . Vol. 2. Protocols of the Great Criminal Trial Commission of the Reich Ministry of Justice (1936–1938) ; Part 1. First reading: Principles, preliminary proceedings, main proceedings, joint procedural rules (judges, public prosecutors, parties, means of truth research, means of coercion), legal remedies (general regulations, complaints, appeal) , p. XXV
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Second edition, Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8
  • Moritz von Köckritz: The German Higher Regional Court Presidents in National Socialism (1933–1945) (= legal history series 413), Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-61791-5 , pp. 260ff. (not evaluated)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Moritz von Köckritz: The German Higher Regional Court Presidents in National Socialism (1933-1945) Frankfurt am Main 2011, p. XI (table of contents)
  2. ↑ Biographical data according to Werner Schubert: Sources for the reform of criminal and criminal procedure law . Vol. 2. Protocols of the Great Criminal Trial Commission of the Reich Ministry of Justice (1936–1938) ; Part 1. First reading: Principles, preliminary proceedings, main proceedings, joint procedural rules (judges, public prosecutors, parties, means of truth research, means of coercion), legal remedies (general regulations, complaints, appeal) , p. XXV
  3. ↑ a b c d Karl Martin on the pages of the Kiel directory of scholars - Kiel professors from 1919 to 1965
  4. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 392
  5. ↑ Quoted from: Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 392
  6. ↑ Ernst Klee: What they did - What they became. Doctors, lawyers and others involved in the murder of the sick or Jews , Frankfurt am Main 2004, p. 265
personal data
SURNAME Martin, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martin, Karl Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and President of the Higher Regional Court in Kiel
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Bunzlau
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1974