Ralph G. Albrecht

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Ralph Gerhart Albrecht (born  August 11, 1896 in Jersey City , †  September 27, 1985 in Watertown, Massachusetts ) was an American lawyer who was a member of the American prosecution during the Nuremberg trial of the major war criminals after the Second World War .

Life

Ralph G. Albrecht during the Nuremberg Trial, 1945

Ralph G. Albrecht was born in Jersey City in 1896 and completed his legal education at the University of Pennsylvania , where he obtained an AB degree in 1919 , and at Harvard University , where he graduated as a Juris Doctor in 1923 . He was admitted to the bar in New York State the following year and tried before the United States Supreme Court three years later . Between 1924 and 1939 he represented American plaintiffs in two process bomb attacks that German agents during the First World War in July 1916 in Black Tom Iceland in Jersey City and in January 1917 in Lyndhurst, New Jersey had committed at ammunition dumps.

During World War II , he served from 1941 to 1945 as a Commander in the United States Navy and in 1945 as Deputy Director of the Office of Strategic Services with responsibility for war crimes and as a special assistant to the United States Attorney General . After the end of the war he served as a member of the American prosecution under the direction of Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson at the Nuremberg Trial of the Major War Criminals . Between 1950 and 1953 he worked in the context of the decartelization of large German corporations decided by the Potsdam Agreement .

With a donation of securities he donated the Manley-O.-Hudson-Medal in 1956 , which is considered the highest award of the American Society for International Law (ASIL). ASIL later named him honorary vice president.

Ralph Gerhart Albrecht was married and had one child. He died in Watertown, Massachusetts in 1985 .

literature

  • Ralph G. Albrecht. In: William R. Denslow, Harry S. Truman: 10,000 Famous Freemasons from A to J. Kessinger Publishing, new edition 2004, ISBN 1-41-797578-4 , pp. 10/11
  • Ralph G. Albrecht, 89, Counsel at Nuremberg. Obituary in: The New York Times . Edition of October 15, 1985
personal data
SURNAME Albrecht, Ralph G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albrecht, Ralph Gerhart (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Jersey City
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1985
Place of death Watertown, Massachusetts