Otto Rietzsch

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Otto Rietzsch (born July 7, 1890 in Groß-Lichterfelde ; † February 15, 1947 in special camp No. 1 Mühlberg ) was a leading Nazi German lawyer .

Life

His grandfather owned a manor in Grottkau , his father was a major in the infantry. After studying law , Rietzsch had his first state examination in 1911 at the University of Kiel . After participating in the First World War , he passed the second state examination in 1919. At the end of 1919 he became a court assessor in Kiel. In December 1921 he became an unskilled worker in the Prussian Ministry of Justice. In April 1922 he was appointed to the council at the Berlin II district court . In 1927 he returned to the Ministry of Justice and became Government . In October 1929 Rietzsch was promoted to director of the Berlin II regional court. In December he was senior government councilor in the Ministry of Justice and Ministerialrat there in April 1930 . During this time he was instrumental in reforming the criminal law of the Weimar Republic .

In April 1935 Rietzsch came to the Reich Ministry of Justice as a Ministerialrat . There, too, he was involved in the changes to the criminal law. He headed the "Criminal Code Unit". From 1937 he was also a member of the Working Group for Juvenile Criminal Law of the Academy for German Law . Rietzsch played a leading role in drafting the Community Aliens Act. An appointment as Ministerialdirektor in 1942 was unsuccessful due to his earlier membership in the DDP . In May 1943 he was appointed Reich judge. He did not start his service until October 1, 1944. He had previously tried to get into military service. Until he started work, he was the chairman of a criminal chamber at the Berlin Regional Court. His numerous essays in the National Socialist spirit made him known and, because of his position, enjoyed special attention.

Memberships

literature

  • Jürgen Regge, Werner Schubert (Hrsg.): Sources for the reform of criminal and criminal procedure law. Section II: Nazi Era (1933–1939) - Criminal Code . Volume 2: Minutes of the Criminal Law Commission of the Reich Ministry of Justice . Part 2. 1st reading: General part (scope of punishment, undertaking a criminal offense) . S XXXVI.
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Initiative group Lager Mühlberg e. V. (Ed.): Book of the Dead - Special Camp No. 1 of the Soviet NKVD, Mühlberg / Elbe , Mühlberg / Elbe, 2008, p. 155, ISBN 978-3-00-026999-8
  2. ↑ On the drafts for a community alien law from 1939 cf. Wolfgang Ayaß (arrangement): "Community strangers". Sources on the persecution of "anti-social" 1933–1945 , Koblenz 1998 (= materials from the Federal Archives No. 5).
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 498.
personal data
SURNAME Rietzsch, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Imperial Judge
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Lichterfelde
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1947
Place of death Special camp No. 1 Mühlberg