Martin Stier (lawyer)

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Martin Stier (born June 3, 1903 in Gemünden , † February 6, 1945 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer. As a judge at the People's Court during the Second World War, he was involved in numerous death sentences.

Life

Martin Stier was the son of the pastor Lic. Dr. Johannes Stier and his wife Margarete, b. Fallower. From 1914 his father was a pastor at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Berlin .

Stier joined the NSDAP on June 1, 1932 ( membership no. 1.202.415). Since August 26, 1942, he was an assistant judge with the rank of district court director at the Berlin People's Court. He was involved - partly as chairman, partly as assessor - in the imposition of numerous death sentences by the Nazi war justice system, for example on November 27, 1942 against the writer Helmuth Klotz , and on April 19, 1943 against the protagonists of the White Rose resistance group Alexander Schmorell , Kurt Huber and Willi Graf (assessor), on April 17, 1944 against Alexander Westermayer , on April 17, 1944 against the pensioner Karl Pohle (chairman), on September 5, 1944 against Bästlein, Jacob and Saefkow (chairman), on 7th April 1944 September 1944 against Willi Jung Mittag and Otto Marquardt ( Rote Kapelle ) (chairman), on September 13, 1944 against Nikolaus Graf von Üxküll-Gyllenband , Heinrich Graf zu Dohna-Schlobitten , Michael Graf von Matuschka and Hermann Wehrle (assessor), on 4 September 1944 October 1944 against Ferdinand Thomas (Chairman), on November 6, 1944 against the deaconess Ehrengard Frank-Schultz , on November 27, 1944 against Erich Gloeden , Elisabeth Charlotte Gloeden and Elisabeth Kuznitzky (Be isitzer) and on February 2, 1945 against Hans Schulz .

Stier had a fatal accident in February 1945 while extinguishing his father's church after an Allied air raid on Berlin.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herbert Linder: From the NSDAP to the SPD: The political life path of Dr. Helmuth Klotz (1894-1943). 1998, p. 325.
  2. ↑ Manfred Wilke: The SED state. 2006, p. 103.
  3. ^ Friedrich Zipfel: Kirchenkampf in Deutschland 1933–1945 Religious persecution and self-assertion of the churches in the National Socialist era. 2011, p. 237.
  4. ↑ Ed. History workshop of the Berlin association of former participants in the anti-fascist resistance, those persecuted by the Nazi regime and survivors (BV VdN) eV: Resistance in Berlin against the Nazi regime 1933–1945. A biographical lexicon. trafo, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89626-332-3 .
  5. ^ Adolf Reichwein. Pedagogue and resistance fighter. 1999, p. 429.
  6. ^ Frank Bauer: They gave their lives: unknown victims of July 20, 1944. General Fritz Lindemann and his escape helpers. 1995, p. 289.


personal data
SURNAME Taurus, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Gemünden (Westerwald)
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1945
Place of death Berlin