Paulheinz Baldus

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Paulheinz Baldus (born April 11, 1906 in Rennerod ; † June 21, 1971 ) was a German judge at the Federal Court of Justice (BGH).

Life

Baldus completed his studies in law after the end of his school career and completed his studies with two state exams. He received his doctorate from the University of Marburg as Dr. jur. His dissertation The equality of the two real forms of competition in criminal law and criminal procedure law: (Eine Unters. De lege ferenda) was published in 1935.

After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he worked from 1933 to 1937 as a judge in the Reich Ministry of Justice in the criminal law department. He had been a member of the NSDAP since 1937 and was also appointed regional judge that year . From 1937 he was a district judge in Wiesbaden . After that he was temporarily seconded to work in the Fuehrer's office.

After the beginning of the Second World War , Baldus was a reserve officer in the Wehrmacht and served as a judge-martial during the German-Soviet War in the East and from autumn 1942 in Kaiserslautern . Baldus was awarded the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class and the Eastern Medal in August 1942 . From 1943 on, he was a senior judge and then director at the Frankfurt am Main regional court .

After the end of the war, from 1948 he was again a district judge in Wiesbaden. From 1951 to 1971 he was a federal judge at the Federal Court of Justice and from 1956 President of the Senate. For a long time he sat before the federal service court , was a member of the Grand Criminal Law Commission and was also chairman of the Criminal Law Commission of the German Association of Judges .

Baldus, under whose chair the revision of major Nazi trials was decided, retired a few months before his retirement in spring 1971 in the course of a proceeding against euthanasia doctors following an application for bias against him by the lawyer Karl Friedrich Kaul (collaboration in the Reich Chancellery) . The request for bias was later rejected.

Baldus was a member of the Catholic student union KStV Thuringia Marburg .

literature

  • Bernt Engelmann : Legal Decay, Justice Terror and the Heavy Legacy , Volume 2: A Contribution to the History of German Criminal Justice 1919 to Today , Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7609-1229-X .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 25.
  2. ↑ Bernt Engelmann: Legal Verfall, Justice Terror and the Heavy Legacy , Volume 2: A Contribution to the History of German Criminal Justice 1919 to Today , Cologne 1989, p. 239
  3. ↑ a b Baldus, Paulheinz at the cabinet minutes of the Federal Archives online
  4. ^ Kerstin Freudiger: The legal processing of Nazi crimes , Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2002, ISBN 3-1614-7687-5 , p. 415f.
personal data
SURNAME Baldus, Paulheinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German judge at the BGH
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Rennerod
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1971