Walter Eisele

Walter Eisele (born December 3, 1904 in Urach , † after 1961) was a German judge .

biography

Eisele worked as a district judge during the Third Reich at the Special Court in Prague and at the Regional Court in Brno . The doctor of law was the deputy of Dr. Frey at the 1st Criminal Chamber at the Special Court in Prague. Since April 1, 1941, he was a member of the NSDAP, No. 8,247,991 .

In addition to his activities at the court, he performed the duties of the manager of a district organization of the Nazi legal guardian association . He was considered a strict representative of National Socialism . In the negotiations he often mocked the accused. So when the death sentence was pronounced he himself asked the rhetorical question : Defendant, you are sentenced to death, right? Note: in the Swabian common interjection "? Eh?" "Not true," is to reaffirm what has been said and corresponds to the meaning in High German

Eisele participated in the imposition of 32 death sentences. When he was supposed to be called up for the Volkssturm in April 1945, he was released as indispensable because of his work at the special court. After his internment, he was extradited to Czechoslovakia by US authorities . On January 27, 1948, he was sentenced to five years imprisonment by the District Criminal Court in Prague for his Nazi activities in occupied Czechoslovakia. At this point in time, the court did not have the files on his activities at the Prague Special Court.

Publication of the Czechoslovak Association of Antifascist Fighters.

After his arrest, he was expelled. At the higher regional court in Stuttgart he was able to work again as a higher regional judge. Judicial files from the Nazi era that were forwarded to the West German authorities by the GDR contained indications of possible involvement in judicial crimes. The documents were also made accessible to a wider public through the traveling exhibition “ Unpunished Nazi Justice ”, which exhibited copies of National Socialist judicial files in numerous German cities between 1959 and 1962. Law enforcement agencies did not take action until Eisele was incriminated by investigations into another case. In 1959 the General Public Prosecutor's Office in Karlsruhe initiated the preliminary investigation. In the spring, the Czechoslovak Association of Antifascist Fighters , an organization of former partisans, soldiers from the front and resistance fighters , filed a formal complaint. The allegation was perversion of the law in unity with manslaughter. However, the investigation was soon closed. As in many other cases of alleged National Socialist judicial crimes, the law enforcement authorities saw themselves unable to prove the deliberate intent to pervert the law. Eisele held this position until his retirement in July 1962.

After the files on Eisele at the Prague Special Court in Czechoslovakia became known, he was placed on the list of war criminals under the registration number A-38/65. He was also on the Alphabetical Index of War Criminals of the United Nations War Crimes Commission .

Death Sentences (Determined)

• Ladislav Prager from Tabor on January 15, 1943 for illegal slaughter (Az .: 7 K Ls 414/42)
• Josef Dumka from Rohatec on March 22, 1943 due to unreported possession of several sacks of grain (Az .: 2 K Ls 33/43)
• Josef Prasek (senior) from Radikov due to grain not being delivered on August 2, 1943 (Ref .: 6 K Ls 130 / 43-1473)
• Vaclav Janota from Kral. Lhota on November 3, 1943 due to grain not being delivered (Ref .: 3 K Ls 15 / 43-334 / 43)
• Oldrich Knezii from Vlasim on January 17, 1944 because the facility was not removed from a radio set so that broadcasts in the shortwave range could be received. (Ref .: 4 K Ls 381/43-I-2390/43)

credentials

• Československý Svaz Protifašistických Bojovníků: criminals in judges ' robes . Documents on the criminal activities of 230 Nazi judges and prosecutors on the occupied territory of the Czechoslovak Republic who are currently serving in the West German judiciary . Orbis, Prague 1960.
• Norbert Podewin (ed.): Braunbuch - war and Nazi criminals in the Federal Republic and in Berlin (West) . With a critical appreciation and a conversation with the head of the working group at the time, Gerhard Dengler . Reprint of the 1968 edition (3rd edition). Edition Ost published by Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1968, ISBN 3-360-01033-7 .
• Wolfgang Koppel: Unpunished Nazi justice . Hundreds of judgments indict their judges . Published on behalf of the organizing committee of the document exhibition "Unpunished Nazi Justice" in Karlsruhe. Self-published, Karlsruhe 1960.