Theodor Prinzing

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Theodor Prinzing (born June 25, 1925 ) is a former German judge .

Life

Prinzing received his doctorate in December 1960 from the Faculty of Law and Economics at the University of Tübingen .

Earlier, presiding judge of a youth criminal division at the Regional Court of Stuttgart , Prinzing at the initiative of the Federal Government, the was the Federal Attorney General and the state government of Baden-Wuerttemberg on February 4, 1974 as a successor to the former chairman Hänle for the first presiding judge of the 2nd  Criminal Division of the Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart appointed. This 2nd criminal senate was responsible for the Stammheim trial against members of the Red Army Faction (RAF) between May 1974 and April 1977 . Prinzing was chosen for this difficult process because he had “experience in monster processes, perspective, assertiveness and recognizable ambition” .

In January 1977, only a quarter of a year before the end of the two-year trial (on the 174th of 192 days of the trial), Prinzing was successfully rejected because of concerns about bias ; in his place came the assessor Eberhard Foth . It was the defense's 85th bias motion that led to its successful rejection. The reason for this was that on January 13, 1977 it became known that Prinzing had discussed important decisions with members of the 3rd Criminal Senate of the Federal Court of Justice , which would have become responsible for the proceedings in the next instance . In a telephone conversation between Prinzing and the Public Defender Prinzing also revealed that he classified the court-appointed public defender and the choice defenders of the accused differently. In a 2007 interview, Prinzing saw his worn-out condition as the main reason for his replacement and made the journalists reporting on the trial jointly responsible for the inflammatory mood against him, which had led to a planned assassination attempt against him with remote-controlled propane cylinders. In retrospect, however, he would be grateful to the journalists because he escaped the attack thanks to his replacement.

During the trial, there were numerous insults against Prinzing and the other judges by the defendants and defense lawyers, which, in Prinzing's impression, were often routinely done in order to exclude them from the trial. In one case, the RAF terrorist Klaus Jünschke , who was summoned as a witness, attacked the judge with the words For Ulrike, you pig , jumping over the bench and knocking Prinzing over in his chair.

From 1980 to 1988 Prinzing was President of the Tübingen Regional Court . In 1989 he received the Great Federal Cross of Merit.

His daughter Gabriele sympathized with the RAF at times.

Movie

  • Stammheim - The RAF in court , SWR documentation by Thomas Schuhbauer and Sonja von Behrens, broadcast on April 24, 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Die Welt , May 17, 1975, p. 3
  2. ↑ "Baader would have been quite useful as a soldier" , Der Tagesspiegel, October 14, 2007
  3. ^ Velten Schäfer: Baader, Meinhof and Prinzing. 40 years after the end of the Stammheim RAF trial, a documentation portrays the lead judge , in new germany from April 18, 2017, online, link for a fee
  4. ↑ Reference to ARD documentary "Stammheim - The RAF in front of the court" ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. with an interview with Prinzing @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ardmediathek.de
personal data
SURNAME Prinzing, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German judge
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1925