Otto Conrady

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Otto Conrady (born March 13, 1904 in Berlin ; † April 12, 1943 near Stalingrad) was a German lawyer and administrative officer .

Live and act

Conrady was the son of a police secretary. After attending school, he studied law . In 1929 he received his doctorate with the thesis Is the arbitrator bound by substantive law when deciding on a legal dispute? at the University of Jena for Dr. jur. After passing the Grand State Examination, he was appointed court assessor on November 20, 1930.

By decree of July 17, 1933, Conrady was given leave of absence from the administration of justice to the Secret State Police Office on July 14, 1933, initially for three months - and later extended several times - where he took over the management of Department IIB, which is responsible for protective custody matters. In this capacity, he was responsible for the supervision of all protective custody measures and facilities in the territory of the State of Prussia , including the Columbiahaus in Berlin . There are different information about his work in the field of protective custody: Rudolf Diels claimed after the Second World War that Conrady had supported him as a “righteous” advisor in wresting control of the “wild” concentration camps from the SA . Walther Korrodi , on the other hand, claimed in his work I Can't Silence , published in Switzerland in 1936 , that Conrady, as Hermann Göring's confidante, organized visits by foreign journalists to concentration camps, which would have served to deceive the world public about the actual conditions in the camps.

In March 1934, Conrady, who had been promoted to the Public Prosecutor's Office on November 1, 1933, was sent to the reorganization of the Stapostelle there in Königsberg , where he got into disputes over competence with the local chief president and local SA leaders regarding the treatment of the Masonic lodges there .

A few weeks after the SS took over the Gestapo in April 1934, Conrady was returned to the Reich Ministry of Justice on May 1, 1934 , and transferred from Berlin at Reinhard Heydrich's request . On July 1, 1934, he was appointed First Public Prosecutor in the Hamm Higher Regional Court. During the war he was supposed to be transferred to Katowice , but this was not implemented due to the missing persons report.

Conrady had been a member of the NSDAP since September 1, 1932 ( membership number 1.313.465). In January 1943, Conrady fought with the 6th Army in Stalingrad and was reported missing. After the end of World War II, a former fellow soldier told a court in Stuttgart that Conrady had been sent to a prisoner of war camp near Stalingrad, where he died on April 12, 1943.

Fonts

  • Is the arbitrator bound by substantive law when resolving a dispute? , 1930. (dissertation)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Benjamin Carter Hett : Crossing Hitler. The man who put the Nazis on the witness stand . Oxford 2008, p. 185.

literature

  • Christoph Graf: Political Police Between Democracy and Dictatorship , 1983, p. 337 f.
  • Hans-Eckhard Niermann: Criminal Justice in the Third Reich , 1995.

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personal data
SURNAME Conrady, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 1943
Place of death at Stalingrad