Kurt Jaager

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Kurt Jaager (born January 30, 1904 ; † May 26, 1990 ) was a German lawyer .

Life

In 1933 Jaager became a court assessor at the Secret State Police Office , and in 1936 a public prosecutor at the Berlin Regional Court . Member of the NSDAP since 1940 , from September 1942 he held the position of department head at the Vienna Special Court .

From August 1, 1943, Jaager was Reich Attorney (Prosecutor) at the People's Court and applied for numerous death sentences in this capacity. As late as April 20, 1945, Jaager, as the representative of the senior Reich attorney, had 28 executions carried out in the Brandenburg prison .

In 1953 Jaager was hired again as a public prosecutor in Schleswig-Holstein and in 1957 he reached a new high point in his career as the first public prosecutor at the Schleswig-Holstein Public Prosecutor's Office. On March 28, 1961, the Schleswig-Holstein Public Prosecutor General Eduard Nehm had to report to Bernhard Leverenz , then Minister of Justice of the State of Schleswig-Holstein, about Jaager:

“On a day that can no longer be determined from April 1, 1957 to mid-July 1957, the now retired First Public Prosecutor Jaager drunk the words 'Raise the flag' and some no longer detectable in the canteen of the Higher Regional Court in Schleswig after work Words from the so-called Horst-Wessel-Lied , in the rest of the bars of the same song bellowed. "

Although singing the Horst Wessel song was and still is forbidden in Germany due to Sections 86 and 86a of the Criminal Code, Jaager, who has meanwhile been retired, was the only one of the prosecutors involved to have to endure the consequences: "Because of his disapproving behavior of the Entitled to be received and welcomed in his former office. "

Two years before this incident was documented, Jaager was retired in 1959 at the age of 55 with full pay due to incapacity for work after details of his work as a public prosecutor at the People's Court had become public.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Archives B141 / 25028, quoted in after: Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 , S. Fischer Verlag 1st edition, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 279.
  2. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 , S. Fischer Verlag 1st edition, Frankfurt am Main 2007., p. 279 f.
  3. ↑ Examples of death sentences of the VGH in which Jaager was involved as a lawyer, see: Klaus Godau-Schüttke: I only served the law. The "renazification" of the Schleswig-Holstein judiciary after 1945 , Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1993, p. 119.
  4. ↑ Klaus Godau-Schüttke: I only served the law. The "renazification" of the Schleswig-Holstein judiciary after 1945 , Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1993, p. 120.
  5. ↑ Quotation from the report of the Schleswig-Holstein Public Prosecutor Eduard Nehm of March 28, 1961 to Bernhard Leverenz , at that time Minister of Justice of the State of Schleswig-Holstein. Jaager personnel file, in: PA Landesarchiv Schleswig-Holstein Department 786, No. 122 and 474; quoted according to: Klaus Godau-Schüttke: I only served the law. The "renazification" of the Schleswig-Holstein judiciary after 1945 , Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1993, p. 117.
  6. ↑ Quotation from the report of the Schleswig-Holstein Public Prosecutor Eduard Nehm of March 28, 1961 to Bernhard Leverenz , at that time Minister of Justice of the State of Schleswig-Holstein. Jaager personnel file, in: PA Landesarchiv Schleswig-Holstein Department 786, No. 122 and 474; quoted according to: Klaus Godau-Schüttke: I only served the law. The "renazification" of the Schleswig-Holstein judiciary after 1945 , Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1993, p. 117.
  7. ↑ Klaus-Detlef Godau-Schüttke: I only served the law. The "renazification" of the Schleswig-Holstein judiciary after 1945. Nomos-Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1993, p. 121 f.

literature

  • Klaus-Detlef Godau-Schüttke: I only served the law. The "renazification" of the Schleswig-Holstein judiciary after 1945. Nomos-Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1993.
  • Klaus-Detlef Godau-Schüttke: The Heyde / Sawade affair. How lawyers and medical professionals covered the Nazi euthanasia professor Heyde after 1945 and remained unpunished. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft 2nd edition, Baden-Baden 2001.
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 , S. Fischer Verlag 1st edition, Frankfurt am Main 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Jaager, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1904
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1990