Walter von Steinäcker

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Walter Maria Erich Freiherr von Steinäcker , also Walther von Steinaecker (born June 18, 1883 in Cologne ; † November 7, 1956 in Bonn ) was a German lawyer and National Socialist , who at the time of National Socialism was first attorney general , then president of the higher regional court in Breslau and finally President of the State Court Court was.

biography

Steinäcker was the son of a lieutenant general . After studying law, he joined the judiciary in 1913 as a court assessor. After the First World War - Steinäcker was a "militarily unfit and thus unserved lawyer" - he was a public prosecutor in Ratibor from 1919 , then from 1922 in Essen and from 1927 at Regional Court III in Berlin. From 1929 he was a senior public prosecutor in Braunsberg and from May 1930 in the same position at Regional Court I in Berlin. As senior public prosecutor, Steinäcker was involved in the high- profile process surrounding the Sklarek scandal , which he viewed as a “symptom of the zeitgeist”: towards the end of the evidence, he stated that the proceedings had “shone into the abyss of moral perception that is not possible in Germany would have held ".

At the beginning of December 1931 he became a member of the NSDAP and was active in the party's propaganda staff, which is why he received a reprimand from his superior in October 1932 . At the Association of National Socialist German Jurists (BNSDJ) he became a department group leader. The SA entered Steinäcker beginning of November 1933 with the rank of rotting leader in, was promoted a week later for SA-Sturmbannführer, reaching in this Nazi organization in 1938 the rank of SA upper leader . He appeared as a party speaker.

After the seizure of power by the National Socialists Steinäcker was in the wake of personnel changes in the Ministry of Justice as a successor to the center member Heinrich Hölscher in conversation. Finally he became attorney general in Hamm in early June 1933. In legal essays he wrote, he called for harsh action against communists in Nazi style and advocated harsh penalties for high treason and treason . He also advocated the forced sterilization of criminals to protect the so-called national community . He summed up his work as Attorney General in Hamm with the result "that everything disappeared that was not suitable for the Third Reich and the tasks of the Führer".

In early January 1936 he became President of the Breslau Higher Regional Court. In January 1943 he became President of the State Court Court in Celle . In the autumn of 1944, the state hereditary court was dissolved. Steinäcker then represented Hans Semler as President at the Hamm Higher Regional Court during his absence due to the war .

Towards the end of the Second World War Steinäcker was arrested in April 1945 and was then interned in the United States. He retired in 1948 and then received a pension as a senior public prosecutor.

literature

  • Hans-Eckhard Niermann: Political criminal justice in National Socialism. Exemplary conditions for their implementation and radicalization in the Third Reich 1933–1945. In: Reports from the science of history. Shaker Verlag, Aachen 1996, ISBN 978-3-8265-5492-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility. CA Starke, 1978, p. 441
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Ernst Klee: The personal dictionary for the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 600
  3. ↑ a b The Protocols of the Prussian State Ministry 1817–1934 / 38. Vol. April 12, 1925 to May 10, 1938. Edited by Reinhold Zilch, with co-workers. by Bärbel Holtz . Acta Borussica , new episode, ed. from the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (formerly Prussian Academy of Sciences), Vol. 2, Olms-Weidmann, 2004, p. 707
  4. ↑ a b Stephan Malinowski , Sven Reichardt : The ranks firmly closed? Nobles in the SA leadership corps until 1934 . In: Eckart Conze , Monika Wienfort (eds.): Nobility and Modernism - Germany in European Comparison in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-412-18603-1 , p. 128
  5. ↑ Annika Klein: Corruption and Corruption Scandals in the Weimar Republic. V&R Unipress, Göttingen 2014, p. 356
  6. ↑ a b Memorial book for the Nazi victims from Wuppertal
  7. ^ Lothar Gruchmann : Justice in the Third Reich 1933-1940. Adaptation and submission in the Gürtner era . 3rd edition, Oldenbourg, Munich 2001, p. 222 f.
  8. ↑ Peter Lindemann: The importance of the ducal city should be raised "in the whole world" ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). In: Cellesche Zeitung , June 14, 2013.
  9. ↑ Hans-Eckhard Niermann: The implementation of political and politicized criminal justice in the Third Reich, its development shown using the example of the OLG district of Hamm . In: Ministry of Justice of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (Ed.): Legal contemporary history. Vol. 3: Criminal Justice in the Third Reich. Düsseldorf 1995, p. 138 f.
  10. ↑ Hans-Eckhard Niermann: Political criminal justice under National Socialism. Exemplary conditions for their implementation and radicalization in the Third Reich 1933–1945. In: Reports from the science of history. Aachen 1996, p. 363
personal data
SURNAME Steinäcker, Walter von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steinäcker, Walter Maria Erich Freiherr von (full name); Steinaecker, Walther von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and National Socialist
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1956
Place of death Bonn