Rudolf Niejahr
Wilhelm Karl Hans Rudolf Niejahr (born August 4, 1889 in Stralsund , † November 4, 1950 in Waldheim ) was a German judge who was executed after the Waldheim trials in 1950 for his work in the Nazi state .
Niejahr studied law in Rostock (1908). He had a doctorate .
The lawyer Niejahr joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 , where he worked as a Nazi legal advisor and was a member of the Nazi Lawyers ' Association . From 1936 to 1945 he was a senior judge at the Higher Regional Court in Stettin and from 1942 he was chairman of a chamber of the Special Court in Stettin which dealt with special criminal cases. He handled at least 200 cases for untrue allegations, defamation and moral crimes. He sentenced more than 30 people to imprisonment under the " Heimtückegesetz ". He also passed ten to twelve death sentences.
The reasoning behind the verdict did not go into the individual cases in which it was not certain whether the sentences had actually been carried out.
After imprisonment in a special Soviet camp in 1950, Niejahr was sentenced to death by the Chemnitz Regional Court and executed after the appeal failed. The pardon had been denied.
literature
- Bernd Withöft: The death sentences of the Waldheim trials, Diss. Vienna 2008, ext. 2014, pp. 38–42
- Karl Wilhelm Fricke : Committed to the Truth: Texts from five decades on the history of the GDR , Links, Berlin 2000, p. 292f.
Web links
- Falco Werkentin : The Waldheimer processes . In: Kurt Groenewold , Alexander Ignor, Arnd Koch (eds.): Lexicon of Political Criminal Trials . Online, as of July 2018.
Single receipts
- ^ Matriculation. Retrieved March 2, 2019 .
- ↑ New Justice. Deutscher Zentralverlag, 1997, accessed on March 2, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Never year, Rudolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Niejahr, Wilhelm Karl Hans Rudolf (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German judge and Waldheim convict |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stralsund |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 4th 1950 |
| Place of death | Waldheim |