Paul Thamm

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Paul Thamm , (born March 25, 1904 , † after 1969) was a German lawyer and public prosecutor.

Life

time of the nationalsocialism

Since 1933, Dr. jur. Thamm to the NSDAP . From 1937 Paul Thamm was prosecutor in the rank of public prosecutor at the special court in Kiel. He rose to head the department for special court matters at the Kiel public prosecutor's office. As a public prosecutor, he has demanded numerous death sentences against political opponents of the Nazi regime. Klaus-Detlev Godau-Schüttke writes about him that he was an "unconditional executor of the National Socialist criminal justice system".

After the war

As early as July 1945, Thamm was appointed head of the Kiel public prosecutor's office by the British military administration in Schleswig-Holstein . Although all members of the Nazi judiciary had been removed from their offices and some had been interned, by the summer of 1945 the military administration was forced to react to the black market crime and to recruit suitable judicial personnel. In July of that year, the British first appointed the presidents of the higher regional courts and attorneys general, who organized the structure of the individual courts and public prosecutors and employed lawyers who seemed suitable for them, albeit subject to the approval of the occupying power. In August 1945 the British Legal Division expressed reservations about the reinstatement of Thamm, but he successfully pretended to be a resistance fighter and so Thamm remained in office. As head of the public prosecutor's office, Thamm also controlled investigations against Nazi perpetrators in Kiel until the 1960s. He headed the Kiel public prosecutor's office until his retirement in 1969.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945. Koblenz 2011, p. 621.
  2. ^ Klaus-Detlev Godau-Schüttke: Everyday Justice in the Third Reich. http://www.akens.org/akens/texte/info/35/41.html#20
  3. ^ Klaus-Detlev Godau-Schüttke: Everyday Justice in the Third Reich. http://www.akens.org/akens/texte/info/35/41.html#20
  4. ↑ http://www.vimu.info/fb.jsp?id=for_11_9_37_fb_thamm_de_doc&lang=de&u=general&flash=true
personal data
SURNAME Thamm, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and public prosecutor
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1904
DATE OF DEATH after 1969