Moshe Landau

Judge Landau during the Eichmann trial (in the middle of the auditorium).

Moshe Landau (1993)

Moshe Landau ( Hebrew משה לנדוי; * April 29, 1912 in Danzig , German Empire ; † May 1, 2011 in Jerusalem ) was a German - Israeli judge and President of the Supreme Court in Israel .

Life

Landau attended high school in Danzig. In 1930 he began to study law at the University of London , which he graduated in 1933 with a Bachelor of Laws . In 1933 he emigrated to Palestine with his parents . In 1937 he was admitted to the bar there and worked in the law firm of Pinchas Rosen and Moses Smoira . Since 1940 he worked under the British mandate administration as a Magistrate Judge in Haifa . At the same time, he worked legally for the banned Zionist underground organization Hagana until Israel gained independence . From 1953 to 1982 he was a judge at the Supreme Court of Israel, from 1976 to 1979 as Vice President and from 1980 to 1982 as President.

In 1961, Landau presided over the proceedings against Adolf Eichmann before the District Court of Jerusalem; his associate judges were Benjamin Halevi and Yitzhak Raveh . In 1991 he was awarded the Israel Prize in the legal category.

From 1962 to 1970, Landau was chairman of the independent committee of the Yad Vashem memorial , which decides on the award of the title Righteous Among the Nations .

family

Landau was the son of the doctor Isaak Landau (1884-1947), a leading member of the Danzig Jewish community, who emigrated to Palestine in 1933 . In 1937 Moshe Landau married Leah Doukhan.

literature

Lisa Hauff: The judges in the Eichmann trial. In: Werner Renz (editor): Interests around Eichmann. Israeli justice, German law enforcement and old comradeships. Campus publishing house, Frankfurt a. M. 2012, ISBN 978-3-593-39750-4 , pp. 120f.
Moshe Landau in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Web links

Commons : Moshe Landau - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Moshe Landau in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Eichmann-Richter Mosche Landau died. In: Spiegel Online . May 2, 2011.
^ ^A ^b The International Who's Who 2004. Europa Publications, 2003, ISBN 1-85743-217-7 , p. 954.
^ Daniel Fraenkel, Jakob Borut: Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations - Germans and Austrians. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-900-7 , p. 16.
^ Günter Grass , Vivian B. Mann, Joseph Gutmann: Danzig 1939 - Treasures of a destroyed community. The Jewish Museum, New York 1980, p. 32.
↑ Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 213.

personal data
SURNAME	Landau, Moshe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	משה לנדוי
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Israeli lawyer, judge
DATE OF BIRTH	April 29, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH	Danzig , Free City of Danzig
DATE OF DEATH	May 1, 2011
Place of death	Jerusalem

[1] Eichmann-Richter Mosche Landau died. In: Spiegel Online . May 2, 2011.

[Who-2] A ^b The International Who's Who 2004. Europa Publications, 2003, ISBN 1-85743-217-7 , p. 954.

[3] Daniel Fraenkel, Jakob Borut: Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations - Germans and Austrians. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-900-7 , p. 16.

[4] Günter Grass , Vivian B. Mann, Joseph Gutmann: Danzig 1939 - Treasures of a destroyed community. The Jewish Museum, New York 1980, p. 32.

[5] Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 213.