List of honorary members of the People's Court

The following list provides an overview of the honorary members of the National Socialist People's Court . As lay judges (lay judges), these are to be distinguished from the regular judges of this body (see this list of judges at the People's Court ).

Voluntary membership

Since April 1934, the People's Court has had honorary members appointed for a period of five years , with new appointments after five years being possible and frequent. Among these honorary members, officers of the Wehrmacht , high SA and SS leaders - mostly also former officers - as well as senior officials from the government council and important party functionaries of the NSDAP dominated . Often the honorary members of the People's Court were also members of the National Socialist Reichstag .

List of honorary members of the 1st Senate of the People's Court as of December 20, 1937

The list of honorary members who were assigned to the 1st Senate of the People's Court, as of December 20, 1937, comprised 23 men. The order of their placement in the official member list was based on their age, starting with the oldest:

• 1. Friedrich Tscharmann , SS-Standartenführer, Lieutenant Colonel ret. D.
• 2. Friedrich Christiansen , Lieutenant General
• 3. Franz Breithaupt , SS-Oberführer, Major a. D.
• 4. Ludwig Liebel , SA Brigade Leader, Major a. D., MdR
• 5. Ernst Busch , Lieutenant General
• 6. Kurt Kühme , Major a. D., SA-Obergruppenführer
• 7. Willy Klitzing , Senior Councilor
• 8. Kurt Lasch , SA group leader, major a. D.
• 9. Hermann Stutzer , Colonel
• 10. Franz Pfeffer von Salomon , SA-Obergruppenführer, captain a. D.
• 11. Arthur Hess , SA group leader
• 12. Dietrich von Jagow , SA-Obergruppenführer, Oberleutnant zur See
• 13. Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger , SS-Obergruppenführer, State Councilor, first lieutenant a. D.
• 14. Ernst Fischer , frigate captain
• 15. Rüdiger Graf von der Goltz , State Councilor, First Lieutenant, MdR
• 16. Willi Worch , NSDAP district leader
• 17. Ernst Hartmann , SS-Standartenführer, first lieutenant a. D.
• 18. Hans-Fritz Kaiser , City Councilor
• 19. Arthur Böckenhauer , SA group leader, MdR
• 20. Curt Kaul , SA-Oberführer, Captain a. D., MdR
• 21. Hubert Berkenkamp , Reichsamtsleiter
• 22. Hermann Walch , SA brigade leader, first lieutenant ret. D.
• 23. Eberhard Taubert , Government Councilor in the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, SA-Sturmführer

Later honorary members of the 1st Senate of the People's Court

• Karl Haas , SA group leader, major general ret. D.

literature

• Klaus Marxen : Terror and "Normality". Judgments of the National Socialist People's Court 1934–1945. A documentation , 2004.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List quoted from Bernt Engelmann: In good German! A Bernt Engelmann reading book , 1981, p. 93f.
2. ↑ http://www.nordfriiskinstituut.de/148.pdf page 10