Walter Roemer

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Walter Roemer (born August 27, 1902 , † 1985 ) was a German lawyer .

Life

After graduating from high school in Aschaffenburg , he studied law between 1922 and 1925 at the LMU in Munich. Roemer was also a board member of the Maximilianeum Foundation from 1936 to 1950 .

During the Nazi dictatorship , Roemer was the first public prosecutor and head of the enforcement department of the Munich regional court responsible for the implementation of the death sentences imposed by the People's Court on Bavarian delinquents . This also included the members of the White Rose , Sophie Scholl , Hans Scholl and Christoph Probst .


Roemer worked for the Bavarian State Ministry of Justice between 1945 and 1950 , after which he moved to the German Federal Ministry of Justice , where he was Ministerial Director and Head of the Department for Public Law until he retired in 1968. Investigations against Roemer remained inconclusive. The federal government declared in November 1987: "Roemer had no way of preventing the execution of such judgments."

literature

  • Martin Will: Ephoral Constitution. The party ban of the right-wing extremist SRP from 1952, Thomas Dehlers Rosenburg and the constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-16-155893-1 (Roemer's biography on pp. 258-263).
  • Roland Ernst: The executor: Johann Reichhart - Bavaria's last executioner. Allitera Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-96233-102-3 , pp. 110f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bundesarchiv biographies on cabinet minutes
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Huber (ed.): The White Rose - Kurt Huber's last days. Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-8316-4686-9 , p. 232.
  3. ^ Jörg Friedrich : The cold amnesty - Nazi perpetrators in the Federal Republic. 2nd Edition. Piper-Verlag, 1994, ISBN 3-492-11553-5 , p. 399 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Roemer, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1902
DATE OF DEATH 1985