Karl Schröder (lawyer)
Karl Schröder (born May 2, 1893 in Holztraubach ; † unknown, after 1947) was a German lawyer.
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After attending a grammar school, Schröder studied law and political science at the University of Munich from the winter semester 1912/13 to the summer semester 1921 . The course was interrupted for almost five years due to participation in the First World War. Schröder took his legal traineeship exam in November 1921 and then switched to the legal preparatory service, which he completed in November 1923 by passing the Great State Examination in Law.
From the end of 1924 to January 31, 1926, Schröder lived as a lawyer in Deggendorf . February 1, 1926, he was then as Gerichtsassessor to the Munich District Court I convened before the public prosecutor in the March 1, 1926 Bayreuth was appointed. On December 15, 1926, he was appointed third public prosecutor in Bayreuth. From there he came to Hof on March 1, 1927 as a district judge .
On July 1, 1930, Schröder was appointed first public prosecutor in Nuremberg . On November 1, 1933, he was appointed regional judge at the Nuremberg-Fürth regional court .
On January 1, 1936, Schröder - who was accepted into the NSDAP with effect from May 1, 1937 - took over the post of senior public prosecutor in Würzburg, where he stayed for five and a half years until he returned to Nuremberg on July 1, 1941 as senior public prosecutor at the regional court in Nuremberg. In this position he was also appointed head of the prosecution at the Nuremberg Special Court , which dealt with the proceedings in connection with the events of the war and sentenced numerous deaths. He himself admitted in an interrogation by the US deputy chief prosecutor in the Nuremberg trials, Robert Kempner , that "perhaps 100" people were sentenced to death on his charges during the course of the war, with Kempner assigning the number of Schröder's responsible charges that ended with a death sentence than estimated significantly higher.
At the end of the Second World War , Schröder was taken captive by the Allies. He was subsequently interrogated as a witness in the context of the Nuremberg trials .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schröder, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Holztraubach |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century |