Max Meinicke-Pusch

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Max Meinicke-Pusch (born February 12, 1905 in Breslau ; † October 31, 1994 ) was a German politician ( FDP , later CDU ).

Life

Meinicke-Pusch studied law , passed the Great State Examination in 1932 and also received his doctorate in this subject. He worked as a lawyer and notary .

In 1932 Meinicke-Pusch joined the Conservative People's Party (KVP), a small party that arose as a split from the DNVP . In 1937 he became a member of the NSDAP . During the Second World War , Meinicke-Pusch was a judge- martial with the rank of chief staff judge in the Air Force .

After the end of the war, Meinicke-Pusch was elected to the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament for the FDP in the state elections in July 1950 , to which he was a member until 1954. As a member of the state parliament , he represented the constituency of Steinburg-Süd in parliament. Meinicke-Pusch left the FDP on January 18, 1952 and joined the CDU on January 30, 1953. The Schleswig-Holstein Landtag sent Meinicke-Pusch to the second Federal Assembly , which on July 17, 1954 re-elected Theodor Heuss as Federal President.

Meinicke-Pusch was chairman of the judiciary committee of the state parliament from 1950 until he left the FDP. In this capacity he sifted through investigative files from the public prosecutor's office on the National Socialist murders in Schleswig-Holstein. This made him one of the best-informed people about the euthanasia murders in Schleswig / Holstein. Pusch was open to criminal prosecution of perpetrators such as the former head of the children's department in Schleswig, Hans Burkhardt, who was suspected of being responsible for the deaths of 219 pupils in his hospital. After Meinicke-Pusch's move to the CDU and his resignation, the judiciary committee, which had received a new chairman who was reluctant to investigate Nazi crimes, approved the public prosecution's termination of the investigation in May 1953.

On February 1, 1955, Meinicke-Pusch was appointed regional social judge. As the rapporteur in the proceedings of Lina Heydrich's lawsuit , Reinhard Heydrich's widow , against the Schleswig-Holstein State Supply Office because of the rejection of a pension applied for as a widow general, he advocated the granting of the pension because the "mass murderer" Heydrich was not assassinated by Czechoslovak citizens because of his cruel treatment of Czechoslovakia had perished, but through fighting during the Second World War. Meinicke-Pusch was no longer involved in the decision of the procedure because another senate took over the procedure.

Shortly after taking up his office as judge, Meinicke-Pusch learned secretly in February 1955 that Werner Heyde , wanted by the police , one of the main perpetrators of the National Socialist murders, was giving reports to Schleswig-Holstein's social courts under the false name of Fritz Sawade . Meinicke-Pusch did not report the person who was wanted by the police for the death of over 80,000 people. In 1956 he even took part as a judge for the first time in a hearing of the 1st Senate of the Regional Social Court, in which Heide / Sawade testified as an expert. Meinicke-Pusch did not use this opportunity to clarify the identity of Heyde / Sawade, but accepted Heyde / Sawade's activities without contradiction. He then learned more details about Sawade's role from studying the magazine Die Gegenwart . In later proceedings before the Lower Saxony-Schleswig / Holstein police station he claimed that he had tried unsuccessfully in several proceedings to prevent Heyde from providing expert opinions. After Heyde's arrest in November 1959, Meinicke-Pusch was questioned in December 1960 by the Landtag's investigative committee to investigate the Heyde-Sawade affair and made extensive statements. The criminal proceedings initiated by the Ministry of Justice because of the affair with the aim of removing Meinicke-Pusch from his judicial office were defused by fellow judges from the criminal court. His guilt was considered insignificant. The service criminal court accused him of not having made enough effort to clarify the identity of Heyde / Sawades. The proceedings ended in March 1962 with a reprimand for Meinicke-Pusch, the mildest possible punishment for misconduct. A preliminary investigation against him on suspicion of beneficiary had previously been closed in April 1960.

Meinicke-Pusch remained a state social judge until his retirement in the early 1970s. The lack of promotion is attributed to his willingness to testify in the investigative committee into the Heyde-Sawade affair .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical information in: Klaus-Detlev Godau-Schüttke: The Heyde / Sawade affair. How lawyers and medical professionals covered the Nazi euthansia professor Heyde after 1945 and remained unpunished. 2nd Edition. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2001, ISBN 3-7890-7269-9 , p. 161.
  2. ↑ Klaus-Detlev Godau-Schüttke: Heyde / Sawade affair , p. 111 ff., 119.
  3. ↑ Klaus-Detlev Godau-Schüttke: Heyde / Sawade affair , p. 163.
  4. ↑ Klaus-Detlev Godau-Schüttke: Heyde / Sawade affair , p. 165 f.
  5. ^ Klaus-Detlev Godau-Schüttke: Heyde / Sawade affair , p. 168 ff.
  6. ↑ Klaus-Detlev Godau-Schüttke: Heyde / Sawade affair , pp. 174 f., 178 f., 225 f., 257 f.
  7. ↑ Klaus-Detlev Godau-Schüttke: Heyde / Sawade affair , pp. 175–177. See also: Heyde confidante: The shadows are giving way . In: Der Spiegel . No. 6 , 1962, pp. 31 f . ( online ).
  8. ↑ This assessment in: Klaus-Detlev Godau-Schüttke: Heyde / Sawade affair , p. 316.
personal data
SURNAME Meinicke-Pusch, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (FDP, CDU), MdL
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH October 31, 1994