Paul Steimer

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Paul Steimer (born January 22, 1883 in Steele ; † January 25, 1943 in Würzburg ) was a German lawyer and National Socialist attorney general at the German Higher Regional Court in Katowice , after making Katowice the capital of the German district of Upper Silesia during the German occupation of Poland 1939-1945 , in violation of international law in 1941 had been.

Life

After passing the Second State Examination in 1914, Steimer took part in the First World War, first as a front-line fighter and then as a first lieutenant in the reserve . He was awarded the Iron Cross II. Class and the Wound Badge . In 1920 he joined the public prosecutor's office and in 1921 was appointed to the public prosecutor's office in Kassel . From 1923 to 1933 he was a judicial councilor at the penal institutions in Naumburg (Saale) and Kassel .

On May 1, 1933, he joined the NSDAP .

In June 1933 he was appointed senior public prosecutor in Neuwied . He was then temporarily employed in Greifswald . He then worked for many years as a senior public prosecutor at a special court in Düsseldorf . He was even head of the prosecution there.

On June 3, 1941, he was appointed attorney general at the Katowice Higher Regional Court, which had only been newly established in April 1941. In an obituary, unmarked by name, which appeared in the journal Deutsche Justiz (publisher: Reichsminister der Justiz Otto Thierack ) on October 29, 1943, one can read about Steimer's last activity:

Dr. Steimer was a recognized expert in the field of the penitentiary system and also made a special contribution to the establishment of the public prosecutor's office in the newly founded Kattowitz Higher Regional Court, especially in the organization of the penal system and the prison labor operations in the conversion to war purposes.

The following seven detention sites belonged to the enforcement system in Katowice, which Steimer had organized and in which prisoners had to perform forced labor : The “Poland camp Kattowitz-Eichenau” (also: “Katowice 15”), the “Poland camp Kattowitz-Idaweiche”, a “severe NS - Kattowitz Prison ”,“ Forced Labor Camp for Jews Kattowitz ”,“ Forced Labor Camp for Jews Kattowitz-'Franzosenstrasse '”,“ Forced Labor Camp for Jews Kattowitz-Idaweiche ”,“ Forced Labor Camp for Jews Schoppinitz ”. These and other detention sites of the National Socialist state are listed in the detention site directory of the Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” , which was taken over by the Federal Archives (Germany) in 2010 and made accessible by the Federal Archives via a database-supported Internet directory. This National Socialist practice of injustice was based on the Polish Criminal Law Ordinance of December 4, 1941.

On June 18, 1942, Steimer, as public prosecutor, proposed to the provisional Reich Minister of Justice Franz Schlegelberger in a letter with the subject "execution of sentences against Jewish prisoners" a regulation to "suspend the proceedings" at the request of the head of the state police. According to Alexandra Przyrembel , "this regulation meant an anticipation of the 13th ordinance on the Reich Citizenship Act, which was only passed one year later, with which the prosecution of Jewish 'delinquents' was transferred to the police."

Besides his work as Attorney General for the National Socialist state Steimer was for the NSDAP under the National Socialist Lawyers' Federal Hans Frank in Gau Upper Silesia worked as a district group Walter prosecutors.

He died on January 25, 1943 as a result of a gallbladder operation in Würzburg.

swell

  • Obituary. in: Zeitschrift Deutsche Justiz (publisher: Reichsminister der Justiz Otto Thierack), issue 35 of October 29, 1943, p. 500.
  • Letter of June 18, 1942 from Paul Steimer to Reich Justice Minister Franz Schlegelberger , Federal Archives Berlin R 22/856.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Precise date of birth according to Ernst Klee : Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 599.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Obituary. in: Zeitschrift Deutsche Justiz (publisher: Reichsminister der Justiz Otto Thierack), issue 35 of October 29, 1943, p. 500.
  3. ↑ a b Bernward Dörner : "Heimtücke": the law as a weapon: control, deterrence and persecution in Germany 1933–1945. Schöningh, Paderborn 1998, p. 123.
  4. ↑ a b Alexandra Przyrembel: "Rassenschande": Purity myth and legitimation of extermination under National Socialism. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2003, p. 433.
  5. ^ Directory of concentration camp-like camps and detention centers as well as institutions and companies in which forced labor was performed (formerly directory of detention sites of the Foundation EVZ) Federal Archives, 2010, accessed on July 2, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Steimer, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German public prosecutor during National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Steele
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 1943
Place of death Wurzburg