Otto Barwinski

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Otto Franz Barwinski (born August 12, 1890 in Groß Purden ; † September 30, 1969 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer and officer , most recently judge general in World War II .

Life

He was the son of the landowner Isidor Barwinski and his wife Rosalie, nee Blazejewski. After studying law , Barwinski was employed as a court assessor in 1919 and, from 1923, as a district judge in Bischofsburg . He then worked from 1925 to spring 1932 as a regional judge in Königsberg , and from March 18, 1932, he was appointed a member of the criminal senate at the Königsberg Higher Regional Court.

Barwinski joined the army of the Wehrmacht on June 9, 1936 , first became a court judge and from 1938 worked as a ministerial advisor in the military law department of the high command of the army in Berlin. On May 1, 1940 he became the Reich Court delegated, subordinate to the Admiral Max Bastian and was there until May 1945. Reichsgerichtsrat . He had previously been appointed judge general on May 1, 1944, while at the same time being transferred to the active officers of the special troop service. At the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the Allies , from which he was released in 1946.

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SURNAME Barwinski, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barwinski, Otto Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, general judge of the Wehrmacht
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Great Purden
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1969
Place of death Berlin