Rudolf Oeschey

Rudolf Oeschey during the Nuremberg Trials

Rudolf Oeschey (born May 29, 1903 in Schwabmünchen ; † September 12, 1980 in Neuss ) was a German lawyer and National Socialist .

Oeschey studied law and received his doctorate . Since December 1931 he was a member of the NSDAP . First he worked as a public prosecutor and from January 1939 as a district judge at the district court of Nuremberg-Fürth . From 1941 he was there as a district court director. In July 1940, he became the leader of the National Socialist Lawyers' Association in Gau Franconia . From the beginning of May 1943 he was chairman of the Nuremberg Special Court , replacing Oswald Rothaug in this position . In February 1945 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht , where he remained until the end of the war. From April 4 to April 14, 1945 he was still in charge of a civil court martial .

Oeschey, who colleagues characterized as a “bloodthirsty judge”, passed an above-average number of death sentences. During the trials, he is said to have insulted the accused and, for trivial reasons, imposed the heaviest penalties, especially against Poland.

In the Nuremberg legal process , Oeschey was sentenced to life imprisonment on December 14, 1947 . His release from the Landsberg War Crimes Prison took place on May 28, 1955. Nothing is known about his further life.

literature

Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
Elke Fröhlich , Martin Broszat : Bavaria in the Nazi era - The challenge of the individual: Stories about resistance and persecution. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1983, ISBN 9783486424119 .

Web links

Page no longer available , search in web archives: The Nuremberg Jurists Trial 1947@1@ 2

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, pp. 442f.
↑ Rudolf Oeschey on www.mazal.org
↑ Elke Fröhlich, Martin Broszat: Bavaria in the Nazi era - The challenge of the individual: Stories about resistance and persecution , Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1983, p. 210f.

personal data
SURNAME	Oeschey, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and National Socialist
DATE OF BIRTH	May 29, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schwabmünchen
DATE OF DEATH	September 12, 1980
Place of death	Neuss

[Klee442-1] Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, pp. 442f.

[2] Rudolf Oeschey on www.mazal.org

[3] Elke Fröhlich, Martin Broszat: Bavaria in the Nazi era - The challenge of the individual: Stories about resistance and persecution , Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1983, p. 210f.