Otto Neumann (lawyer)

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Otto Gottlieb Wilhelm Neumann (born September 6, 1884 at Osterode Castle , East Prussia , † November 26, 1969 ) was a German military judge.

Life

Otto Neumann was born in 1884 in Osterode Castle in East Prussia as the son of Louis and Anna Neumann. His younger brother was Major General Friedrich Wilhelm Neumann . In 1903 Neumann began studying law at the Albertus University in Königsberg and became a member of the Königsberg fraternity of Germania . In 1909 he became a lieutenant in the reserve and in 1913 a judge-martial . During the First World War he was awarded the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class. After the end of the war in 1918 he joined the Reich Finance Administration . In 1922 he received his doctorate from the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University on the Actio libera in causa . From October 1, 1936 to September 30, 1942 he was the chief magistrate. In 1937 he was appointed head of the army justice system and head of the army law department in the general army office ( substitute army ) and promoted to ministerial director on February 1, 1938 . As the head of the army justice system, he was the "specialist superior of all judicial officers in the field and substitute army and their criminal superior". Neumann initiated court martial proceedings against soldiers who had participated in the Kristallnacht riots in November 1938. As of October 1, 1942, Neumann was assigned to the Reich Court Martial, his successor as head of the army justice system was Karl Sack . Neumann became President of the First Senate of the Reich Court Martial in 1943 . After the military judges lost their official status on May 1, 1944 and were declared "officers in special troop service", Neumann held the rank of general staff judge until he, "became a nuisance", was dismissed a little later by Wilhelm Keitel , head of the Wehrmacht High Command has been.

Awards

literature

  • Andreas Toppe: Military and international law of war: legal norm, specialist discourse and war practice in Germany 1899-1940 . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2008. ISBN 3-486-58206-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hans Poeppel , Wilhelm Karl Prince of Prussia , Karl-Günther von Hase (Ed.): The soldiers of the Wehrmacht . Herbig, Munich 1998. p. 370.
  2. ↑ Andreas Toppe: Military and international law of war: legal norm, specialist discourse and war practice in Germany 1899-1940. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2008. p. 203.
  3. ↑ a b Der Spiegel 28/1978: The guy should be hanged! - The German military judges in World War II , July 10, 1978
personal data
SURNAME Neumann, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neumann, Otto Gottlieb Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and military judge
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Osterode Castle , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1969