Oskar Haidinger

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Oskar Haidinger (born March 29, 1908 in Fürstenberg (Oder) , † March 10, 1987 ) was a German lawyer and federal judge .

Life

Haidinger holds a degree in law and has been at the University of Göttingen with the 1931 published thesis The field of application of § 279 BGB, especially in the so-called acquisition debt and obligationes faciendi Dr. jur. PhD . After the second state examination and the time as a court assessor , he finally became a district judge in Berlin.

After the beginning of the Second World War he was employed in German-occupied Poland from mid-November 1939 as a district judge in Łódź , which was renamed Litzmannstadt by the German occupiers. There he was promoted to district court director in 1941. For a time he was also an assessor at the Special Court I in Litzmannstadt , where he participated in politically motivated criminal judgments. At the beginning of May 1942 he applied for membership in the NSDAP . It is not certain whether he ultimately became a party member. According to his own statements, he did military service as a soldier shortly afterwards.

After the war he worked at the Hamburg district court. From 1950 to 1976 he was a federal judge at the Federal Court of Justice , where he was President of the Senate from 1961 and presiding judge at the VIII Civil Senate from 1972 .

Haidinger is the alleged author of the almost fifty-page anti-Semitic chronicle of the Litzmannstadt regional and district court , which states, among other things: "Here we saw the Eastern Jew for the first time in all his repulsive atrocity and squalor." This chronicle ends with the typewritten note: "Completed February 10, 1942, Dr. Haidinger, District Court Director ". The chief president of the BGH Robert Fischer questioned Haidinger in September 1971 about the authorship of the re-emerged chronicle, which he denied. In spite of assertions to the contrary, Haidinger was shown to have acted as an assessor at the special court at least twice in criminal judgments. Der Spiegel reported on this process in issues 40 and 46 of 1971.

Haidinger is noted in the GDR Brown Book .

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  1. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 219 f.
personal data
SURNAME Haidinger, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and federal judge
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Fürstenberg (Oder)
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1987