Kurt Wackermann

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Kurt Wackermann (born September 7, 1883 in Quedlinburg ; † March 23, 1951 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German lawyer. At the time of National Socialism , Wackermann was Attorney General at the Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt am Main .

biography

Wacker man studied from the summer semester 1904 Law at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen , where he was a member of the Tübingen fraternity Derendingia After the traineeship and second state exam he received his doctorate in 1913 at the University of Leipzig to Dr. jur. Then Wackermann entered the civil service as a court assessor. At the end of the First World War , he represented the director of the Magdeburg prison in 1918/19. From 1920 he worked as a public prosecutor in Halle (Saale) and Berlin . He entered the service of the Prussian Ministry of Justice in 1922 and worked there as a ministerial advisor from 1930. From November 1932 until his retirement in September 1944 he was Attorney General at the Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt am Main and President of the Prison Office.

After the seizure of power , he joined the NSDAP in May 1933 and in October 1933 he joined the Association of National Socialist German Jurists (BNSDJ) . From May 1934 he was a supporting member of the SS . With two other public prosecutors, he visited the Eichberg sanatorium , where sick and disabled people were victims of the Nazi euthanasia murders as part of the T4 campaign . Wackermann took part in the meeting of the highest lawyers in the German Reich on April 23 and 24, 1941 in Berlin , at which Viktor Brack and Werner Heyde provided information about the "destruction of life unworthy of life" in the gas chambers of Action T4. In this context, Wackermann also learned about the “pseudo-legalization of the murder of the sick” by Franz Schlegelberger .

After the end of the war, Wackermann, the attorney general at the time responsible for the Hadamar killing center , testified before the Frankfurt am Main regional court on March 11, 1947, as a witness in the trial against the head of the Hadamar killing center, Adolf Wahlmann . Wackermann reported on the Berlin conference of April 1941 and the instruction to stand still with regard to the murders of the sick.

Because of the incitement to murder and perversion of justice , the public prosecutor in Frankfurt am Main initiated an investigation against Wackermann and three former public prosecutors in March 1951. The background to the investigation was a 1942 death sentence passed by the special court in Frankfurt am Main against the 19-year-old Polish foreign worker Edvard Sarczinski for allegedly indecent acts. Mitigating circumstances were not taken into account when the verdict was reached, and the death sentence was carried out. During the post-war trial it was unclear who had applied for the death sentence, as the relevant notices had already been destroyed. Wackermann died suddenly before he was questioned. His defense attorney Georg Nielsen commented the following: "My client, a very withdrawn, correct man, died of the emotional distress of this monstrous accusation."

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  1. ↑ Membership directory of the Derendingia fraternity in Tübingen. 1967, master roll no. 358
  2. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 674
  3. ↑ Helmut Kramer : “Hold a court day over yourself” - Fritz Bauer's procedure for the participation of the judiciary in institutional murder. In: Hanno Loewy and Bettina Winter: Nazi euthanasia in court: Fritz Bauer and the limits of legal coping. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1996, ISBN 3-593-35442-X , p. 88
  4. ↑ Thomas Blanke, Editorial Critical Justice: The legal processing of the injustice state , Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 1998, p. 423
  5. ^ Administration of justice. Die in a few hours . In: Der Spiegel , edition 13/1951 of March 27, 1951, p. 10
  6. ↑ Personal details . Dr. Kurt Wackermann . In: Der Spiegel , edition 16/1951 of April 18, 1951, p. 29
personal data
SURNAME Wackermann, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Quedlinburg
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1951
Place of death Frankfurt am Main