Walter Jurisch

Penitentiary card Walter Jurisch - 14 years old when arrested and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment after 5 years in special camps in Waldheim
(published in Kurt Noack: NachkriegsErinnerungen. )

Walter Jurisch (born March 10, 1931 in Rosendorf near Senftenberg , † 2010 in Großräschen ) was the youngest convict in the Waldheim trials in 1950.

The apprentice roofer Jurisch was arrested by the Soviet occupiers at the age of 14 after the end of the war on May 8, 1945 as an alleged " werewolf " and thus a threat to peace and was interned in special camps in Ketschendorf , Jamlitz and Buchenwald until 1950 . He was still too young for the Hitler Youth . In 1950 he was handed over to the GDR judiciary, indicted in the illegal Waldheim trials and sentenced to 20 years in prison, which he served in Bautzen . Much later than most of the convicts, he was only pardoned by Wilhelm Pieck in 1954 .

literature

• Stefanie Endlich: Brandenburg memorials for those persecuted by the Nazi regime: Perspectives, controversies and international comparisons: Contributions from the international memorial colloquium in Potsdam on March 8 and 9, 1992 and recommendations of the expert commission on the redesign of the Brandenburg memorials from January 1992 , Hentrich , 1992, p. 173

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.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kurt Noack: Post-War Memories - As a fifteen-year-old in Stalin's camps. Niederlausitzer Verlag, Guben 2009, 1st edition, ISBN 978-3-935881-70-8 , p. 309.
2. ↑ Better not hang so far out of the window. Lausitzer Rundschau, March 6, 2014, accessed on March 11, 2019 .