Karl Pawelka

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Karl Pawelka (* 19th July 1890 in Brno , † 2. October 1948 in . Special Camp No. 2 Buchenwald ) was a judge at the highest Czechoslovak court and a German Reichsgerichtsrat .

Life

The Catholic Pawelka was the son of a coffin manufacturer. In 1914 he passed the judicial examination in Vienna . At the beginning of November 1914 he became a legal intern in Brno. He participated in the First World War as a sergeant-cadet aspirant of the Austrian army. From mid-May 1918 to June 1921 he was an auscultant in Brno and Eibenschütz . In 1921 he passed the judge's examination in German and Czech with "very good success" in Vienna. From June 1926 to June 1923 he was a judge and single judge in Eibenschütz , from the end of December 1921 this was a systematic position. In May 1923 he came to the Secretariat of the Supreme Court (OG) in Brno, the highest Czechoslovak court. Five weeks later there was a retrospective promotion to the district judge with further use at the OG. In 1924 he became vice secretary of the OG secretariat. In 1931 he was appointed to the court advisor at the court martial in Brno with further use at the OG. In 1935 he became senior secretary and in 1937 councilor at the OG.

After Czechoslovakia was broken up in March 1939, Pawelka was appointed to the Reich Court in Leipzig on September 1, 1939 . He was in the III. , VI. , and IV. Criminal Senate. According to an NKVD report, “ [he] investigated the case of those involved in the suppression of the fascist putsch in Austria on Hitler's personal instructions . During his judicial activity, Pawelka was directly involved in court proceedings of particular importance, including cases involving foreign nationals ”. In August 1945, the NKVD arrested Pawelka as the first of the Reich judges and was taken to special camp No. 1 in Mühlberg at the end of September . After it was dissolved, he was transferred to special camp No. 2 in Buchenwald on September 17, 1948 , where he died shortly afterwards.

Memberships

literature

  • Friedrich Karl Kaul , History of the Reichsgericht, Volume IV (1933–1945), East Berlin 1971, p. 284.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information from the Buchenwald Memorial on the basis of the Book of the Dead
  2. ↑ Achim Kilian : The prisoners in the Soviet special camps from 1945-1950 , in: German Bundestag (Ed.): Materials of the Enquete Commission. Overcoming the consequences of the SED dictatorship in the process of German unity (13th electoral term of the German Bundestag), Baden-Baden 1999, Volume VI, pp. 420, 422f. ( PDF ).
  3. ^ August Schäfer : The great dying in the Reichsgericht , Deutsche Richterzeitung 1957, pp. 249, 250.
personal data
SURNAME Pawelka, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Imperial Judge
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno
DATE OF DEATH October 2, 1948
Place of death Special camp No. 2 Buchenwald