Martin Horn (lawyer)

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Bernhard Otto Martin Horn (born July 5, 1911 in Leipzig , † 1960 ) was a German lawyer.

Life

The son of the businessman Albert Horn spent his school days in Naumburg at the "Staatliche Bildungsanstalt". He studied law in Innsbruck, Kiel, Berlin and Halle, where he also dealt with history and languages. To complete his language skills, he went on several study trips abroad, including to Oxford, where his interest was directed to the field of international law. He then continued these studies in Berlin and Halle with Bruns and later with one of his students, Wegner, who inspired him to work on the historical development of the modern concept of neutrality (1936).

He worked in the legal department of Ufa. During the war he was seriously wounded as an officer at the front. In 1945 he was in Munich consulting attorney for the legal department of the American military government in Bavaria.

From January 5, 1946, he was Joachim von Ribbentrop's defense counsel at the Nuremberg trial of the major war criminals . He also represented Franz Halder (around 1948), the Heinrich Hoffmann company and in 1949 the widow of the painter Willy Exner .

See also

Fonts

  • The historical development of the modern concept of neutrality . Würzburg: Triltsch, 1937; Zugl .: Halle, R.- u. state science Diss. 1936.
  • Halder: guilt or tragedy? Munich: Münchener Verlagbuchhandlung, 1948.

literature

  • Karl Klimesch: Heads of Politics, Economy, Art and Science , Volume 1 (1953), p. 501.
  • Hubert Seliger: Political lawyers? The defenders of the Nuremberg trials . Baden-Baden: Nomos 2016. ISBN 978-3-8487-2360-7 , p. 542

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nuremberg Trial: Finds in the table of contents at zeno
  2. ↑ With rifle over . In: Der Spiegel . No. 39 , 1948 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Horn, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horn, Bernhard Otto Martin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH 1960