Walter Triebel

Walter Julius Triebel (born December 21, 1882 in Grube von der Heydt , Saarbrücken district, † after 1931) was a German lawyer .

Life and activity

Birth certificate for Walter Triebel.

Triebel was a son of the secret mountain councilor Christian Eduard Julius Triebel and his wife Marie Louise, nee. Herzfeld. As a child he attended high schools in Ratibor and Torgau . On the latter he passed his Abitur in 1901. Triebel then studied law in Halle (5 semesters) and Breslau (2 semesters). On January 15, 1906, Triebel passed the first state examination in law (trainee examination) in Breslau, after which he was accepted into the legal preparatory service, which he a. a. at the district court of Hultschin D.-S. completed. From October 1, 1906 to September 30, 1907, as a one-year -old , he belonged to the Hussar Regiment "Graf Goetzen" (2nd Silesian) No. 6 in Leobschütz . It was the end of 1906, during a leave of absence from the military, from the Law Faculty of the University of Wroclaw with one of Rudolf Leonhard supervised work on the set-off of the surety with a demand of the principal debtor to Dr. jur. PhD. He passed the oral exam on December 10, 1906.

During the First World War Triebel was used as divisional director.

After the war Triebel was employed as a lawyer at a plant in Upper Silesia. He then founded a company for the wholesale distribution of office items, which was later changed to a Motordreirad GmbH. In 1925 the company went bankrupt with a debt of 100,000 marks. From October 1928 to August 1931, 23 arrest warrants were issued to enforce the oath of disclosure. He was later charged with manipulating foreign business. Triebel played a key role in the fact that the German market was flooded with Portuguese oil sardines in the 1920s , with the result, according to Robert Kempner , that the "German business world" was "considerably" damaged.

After the end of his career as a businessman, Triebel returned to his learned profession as a lawyer . At the beginning of the 1930s he was one of the most important defense lawyers in the service of the NSDAP , for whom he acted as legal counsel for accused party officials or supporters in a large number of trials. The most important processes of this kind were the three Kurfürstendamm trials, in which more than forty supporters of the NSDAP from September 1931 to February 1932 because of the anti-Semitic riots of several hundred SA members on the Kurfürstendamm on the occasion of the Jewish New Year festival on September 12, 1931 for breach of the peace and Incitement to class hatred were accused, including the then Oberführer of the Berlin SA Wolf Heinrich Graf von Helldorff and his staff leader Karl Ernst . In these publicly acclaimed proceedings, Triebel, together with Hans Frank , Roland Freisler and Alfons Sack, defended the accused National Socialists. After the majority of the defendants had received quite harsh sentences in a first trial before the Charlottenburg rapid lay judge in September 1931, Triebel and the other defense lawyers were finally able to acquitt Helldorff and Ernst and a considerable reduction in the sentences of most SA members in the third trial to reach.

family

Triebel was married to Margarete Klaften.

Fonts

• Offsetting of the surety with a claim of the main debtor , Leipzig 1906. (Dissertation)

literature

• Friedrich Karl Kaul : “Pogrom on the Kurfürstendamm. The trial against Count Helldorf and his cronies - Berlin 1931 to 1932 ”, in: Ders .: The Pitaval of the Weimar Republic. It crackles in the entablature , (= Das neue Berlin Vol. 3) Berlin 1961, pp. 359–403.
• Robert Kempner : "The Portuguese sardines of SA lawyer Triebel", in: Ders. Justice twilight. Prelude to the Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 1963, p. 67f.
• Irmtraud Ubbens: His fight for justice, freedom and decency was notorious. Moritz Goldstein - "Inquit". Journalist and court reporter at the Berliner Vossische Zeitung from 1918 to 1933 , Bremen 2009, pp. 328–356.