Paul Stenig

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Paul Carl Stenig (* 1893 in Heilsberg, East Prussia, † 1952 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer.

Live and act

After attending school, Stenig studied law. In 1921 he did his doctorate under Fritz Litten with a thesis on The State Council after the Constitution of the Free State of Prussia of November 30, 1920 . He later entered the civil service.

On May 1, 1929, he became political department head at Regional Court III in Berlin .

In the early 1930s, Stenig was the prosecutor's representative in numerous trials against political offenders from the ranks of the NSDAP and KPD . This earned him the enmity of both parties and often made him the target of attacks by the respective party press: So rode Joseph Goebbels - who referred to Stenig in his diary with the remark "Public Prosecutor Stenig, this pig is inciting against me" - in his newspaper Der Attack numerous attacks on Stenig. In the attack of September 28, 1931, for example, Stenig was publicly scolded as a "philistine gone mad". In the Reichstag , a member of the NSDAP also applied for Stenig to be given leave of absence.

In the fall of 1931 and spring of 1932 Stenig represented the prosecution in two initial procedures and a contracted appealing against more than forty national socialists , including the Berlin SA boss Wolf-Heinrich von Helldorff and his staff leader Karl Ernst because of anti-Semitic Kurfürstendamm riot of 12 September 1931 .

In the spring of 1933, Stenig was given leave of absence as a member of the public prosecutor's office under the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service and was dismissed in September 1933. He later opened a private law firm: his clients during the Nazi era included the Provost of Berlin Cathedral, Bernhard Lichtenberg, and numerous people who were persecuted as homosexuals by the Nazi system .

After the Second World War, Stenig was a senior public prosecutor at the Tiergarten district court before reopening a private law practice in the late 1940s.

Fonts

  • The State Council according to the Constitution of the Free State of Prussia from November 30, 1920 , 1921.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Diary entry of April 28, 1931. In: Ralf Georg Reuth (Ed.): Joseph Goebbels. The diaries 1924–1945. Volume 2. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1992, p. 590.
  2. ↑ Knut Bergbauer, Sabine Fröhlich, Stefanie Schüler-Springorum: Monument figure. Biographical approach to Hans Litten 1903-1938 . Wallstein, Göttingen 2008, p. 337, list the articles from the attack editions of April 19 (“Tactics of the Public Prosecutor Stenig”), April 20 (“Stenig and the dog whip”), April 21 (“Stenig's aphorisms from the legal traineeship "), April 21 (" And once again Stenig ") and April 24 (" How long Stenig still. The public prosecutor's latest impropriety and its removal ") 1931.
  3. ^ Heinrich Hannover , Elisabeth Hannover-Drück: Political Justice 1918-1933. , Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1966, p. 288.
personal data
SURNAME Stenig, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stenig, Paul Carl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH 1952
Place of death Berlin