Kurt Weber (judge, 1907)

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Kurt Weber (born October 29, 1907 in Mannheim ; † February 17, 1985 in Karlsruhe ) was a German lawyer and judge at the Federal Court of Justice , including temporarily as chairman of the State Security Senate .

After studying law and completing his legal clerkship, he joined the judiciary as an assessor. From 1934 he belonged to the NS-Rechtsswahrerbund , from 1936 to the NS-Volkswohlfahrt (NSV) and from 1937 to the NSDAP and the NS-Kraftfahrkorps . From 1938 until the end of the war - with an interruption of around one year due to the war on the Eastern Front - he worked as a public prosecutor in Pforzheim , Strasbourg and Karlsruhe .

After the end of the war he was denazified as "exonerated" in 1946 . After that he was first public prosecutor at the Karlsruhe Regional Court from 1946 and a judge from 1949. In 1950 he became the first public prosecutor in Pforzheim. From 1951 to 1954 he was regional court director in Mannheim . From 1954 to 1966 he was a judge at the Federal Court of Justice , including temporarily as chairman of the State Security Senate . As an investigative judge he was u. a. responsible for the criminal case against the former President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , Otto John . When he was promoted to Senate President in December 1965, Carlhans Scharpenseel was preferred to him "for reasons of anciency" , which Weber attributed to the termination of the Spiegel affair . On January 3, 1966, he demanded his dismissal from the federal service, to which the German Judges Act is entitled. Weber then wanted to return to the state justice service and actually worked again as district court director in Mannheim from 1967 until he retired in 1971. However, an application for the position of Senate President at the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court failed.

Weber was engaged to the Jewess Alice Dröller, who went into exile in the Netherlands in 1934. She became a victim of the Holocaust in Auschwitz-Birkenau .

Klaus Schäfer describes Weber in connection with his work in the proceedings against Otto John as "not [...] typical Nazi " and "difficult personality".

literature

  • Klaus Schäfer: The trial against Otto John . A contribution to the judicial history of the early Federal Republic, Tectum: Marburg, 2009 [at the same time Diss. Uni Frankfurt am Main, 2009], pages 163–166 ( retro digitized version )
  • Gerhard Mauz : "Things have grown to a point" , in: Der Spiegel , issue 5/1966, pages 39–41 ( retro digitized version )
  • Ulf Gutfleisch: State Protection Criminal Law in the Federal Republic of Germany 1951–1968 , BWV, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-8305-3408-2 , pp. 340–341 ( retro-digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Schäfer: The trial against Otto John. A contribution to the history of justice in the early Federal Republic , Marburg 2009, p. 163
  2. ↑ Günther letter: Adenauer: "Stetigkeit in der Politik": the minutes of the CDU federal executive board 1961-1965 , Droste Verlag, 1998, p. 294
  3. ^ Gernot Ziegler: Krach in Karlsruhe , in: Die Zeit of January 21, 1966
  4. ^ Klaus Schäfer: The trial against Otto John. A contribution to the history of justice in the early Federal Republic , Marburg 2009, p. 163
  5. ^ Klaus Schäfer: The trial against Otto John. A contribution to the history of justice in the early Federal Republic , Marburg 2009, p. 166.
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, judge at the Federal Court of Justice
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH 17th February 1985
Place of death Karlsruhe