Walter Tyrolf

Walter Fritz Tyrolf (born January 12, 1901 in Zeitz ; † November 24, 1971 in Hamburg ) was a German public prosecutor and judge .

Life

Tyrolf was the son of a primary school teacher and studied at the new Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main Law . In 1921 he became active in the Corps Austria Frankfurt am Main . After completing his studies (1923), the doctorate to Dr. jur. (1926) and the clerkship (1927) he was hired in 1930 as a court assessor and in 1931 appointed to the district court advisor. In 1934 he became a district judge and in 1937 a judge at the district court in Hamburg . At the same time he became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 5,269,173 from May 1, 1937).

From 1940 he worked as a public prosecutor. In 1944 he was as a prosecutor to the NS - Special Court placed Hamburg. There he pleaded for the death penalty in numerous cases, including minor cases (such as petty theft and “ racial disgrace ”), and managed to have it carried out. So far, at least 18 legal proceedings are known in which he applied for death sentences and in 15 of the cases also led to execution .

Immediately after the end of the war, he returned to work as an examining magistrate at the Hamburg Regional Court, where he was promoted to Regional Court Director in 1951. In 1949, Tyrolf led the legal proceedings for Veit Harlan's activity in the Third Reich and acquitted him. The acquittal of Harlan, who had made the anti-Semitic propaganda film Jud Suss , and Tyrolf's ruling, which bordered on anti-Semitism , attracted international attention in the press. The son of Veit Harlan, Thomas Harlan , therefore called Tyrolf a " blood judge ". The direct consequence of the judgment and the disagreement about it was the Lüth judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court .

After Tyrolf's first wife died in September 1962, he married the former euthanasia doctor Ingeborg Margarete Wetzel in March 1963 , whom he had previously acquitted in a Nazi war crimes trial. Although investigations and internal investigations were ongoing because of his activities during the National Socialist era , Tyrolf refused to voluntarily resign as a burdened lawyer and officially took early retirement in 1964 for health reasons.

Works

• The unincorporated association with special consideration of its position as heir . Dissertation 1926

literature

• Can Bozyakali: The special court at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court: An investigation of the Nazi special courts with special consideration of the application of the ordinance against public pests . Frankfurt am Main: Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Peter Lang 2005. ISBN 978-3-631-53896-8
• Marc Burlon: The “euthanasia” of children during National Socialism in the two children's departments in Hamburg . Dissertation, Hamburg 2009. pp. 191–193. Full text online (PDF; 1.7 MB)
• Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 .
• Michael Marek: My party is art . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from April 28, 1994
• Helge Grabitz; Wolfgang Sarodnick; Gunther Schmitz; Hamburg judicial authority (ed.): Of habitual criminals, pests and anti-socials: Hamburg judicial judgments under National Socialism. Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-87916-023-6

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Tyrolf in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 25 , 260.
2. ↑ Die WELT from April 11, 2004
3. ↑ Thomas Harlan: Veit. Rowohlt Verlag, note on p. 20.
4. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, June 23, 2011
5. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt, February 12, 2014