Walter Wagner (lawyer)
Walter Wagner (born July 31, 1901 in Posen , † February 21, 1991 in Karlsruhe ) was a German lawyer , senior public prosecutor at a special court in occupied Poland and public prosecutor at the Federal Court of Justice .
Life
From the summer semester of 1920, Wagner studied law in Giessen , Munich and Frankfurt a. M. After the doctorate to Dr. jur. he became public prosecutor in Frankfurt a. M., 1930 Public Prosecutor in Berlin, 1935 First Public Prosecutor at the Higher Regional Court in Breslau , 1938 Senior Public Prosecutor in Schweidnitz , 1939 Senior Public Prosecutor at a special court in Poznan in occupied Poland . From 1940 to 1945 he did military service.
As early as 1945 he was employed as a public prosecutor in Frankfurt a. M. taken back into the judicial service. After founding the Federal Prosecutor's Office (1950), he became senior public prosecutor, on August 8, 1954, federal prosecutor at the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe, most recently as deputy federal prosecutor . Wagner organized what he called access to the Spiegel affair in 1962 .
Wagner was a member of the public prosecutor's commission of the German Association of Judges . He was also a member of the Association for the Reintroduction of the Death Penalty eV
On July 31, 1966, Wagner retired.
Fonts (selection)
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The People's Court in the National Socialist State , Stuttgart 1974 ISBN 3-421-01665-8 .
- New edition of the 1st edition 1974, Munich 2011 (expanded to include the research report by Jürgen Zarusky ( Walter Wagner's 1974 Volksgerichtshof study in the context of research development ) PDF).
- From the case law in state security proceedings. In: Reprint from Goltdammer's archive . v. Decker, Hamburg / Berlin, DNB 455582947 .
- Wagner's estate The main part is in the Koblenz Federal Archives (BArch N 1379).
- Part of Wagner's estate is in the General State Archives in Karlsruhe .
literature
- Karlmann Geiß , Kay Nehm , Hans Erich Brandner, Horst Hagen (eds.): 50 years of the Federal Court of Justice. Festschrift on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Federal Court of Justice, the Federal Prosecutor's Office and the legal profession at the Federal Court of Justice. Heymann, Cologne et al. 2000, ISBN 3-452-24597-7 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Franziska Augstein : The duel. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . April 26, 2014, p. 42 ( sueddeutsche.de ).
- ↑ N 1379/3 Vol. 3: Association for the reintroduction of the death penalty eV . Federal Archives Germany. Retrieved September 15, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wagner, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Poses |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 21, 1991 |
| Place of death | Karlsruhe |