Werner von Haacke

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Moritz Werner von Haacke (born November 24, 1902 in Berlin ; † March 27, 1975 in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel ) was a German lawyer.

Live and act

Youth and education

Haacke was the son of a tram inspector. In his youth he attended the Treitschke-Realgymnasium in Berlin, which he left at Easter 1922 with the Abitur. He then studied law at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin from the summer semester of 1922 to the winter semester of 1926/1927 : he passed the first state law examination on November 14, 1927 with the grade "good" and the major state examination on May 22, 1931 with the predicate "good". He completed his legal preparatory service at the Charlottenburg District Court (March to August 1928) and at the District Court III in Berlin (August 1928 to April 1929) before he was referred to the Higher Regional Court as a referendum in December 1929. He decided not to do a doctorate.

From June 1931 to January 1933 Haacke was employed by the public prosecutor's offices I in Berlin and in Guben. Since January 16, 1933, he was a member of the public prosecutor's office in Cottbus and then the public prosecutor's office in Hamm as a scientific assistant . At the latter he was appointed to the public prosecutor's council on June 8, 1933.

time of the nationalsocialism

After the National Socialists came to power , Haacke joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 . In July of the same year he was appointed advisor to the “Central Prosecutor's Office” newly established at the time in the Prussian Ministry of Justice. The task of this department, which was manned by two public prosecutors - namely Haacke and Günther Joel - was to combat excesses by members of the NSDAP and its branches ( SA , SS etc.). The background to the creation of this institution was, on the one hand, the interest of the National Socialist government in pushing back the worst excesses of its supporters after their power had been consolidated, in order to give the population the impression of reputation and the rule of law. Secondly, by taking action against radical elements, the conservative-bourgeois allies of the National Socialists in government and civil servants should be reassured. The Central Public Prosecutor's Office was of practical importance, as it had - to a limited extent - the possibility of holding SA and SS members accountable for crimes they had committed.

The two officers of the Central Public Prosecutor's Office had a double function: they were once officers in the Prussian Ministry of Justice and as such were responsible for overseeing the relevant criminal proceedings. On the other hand, they were appointed as public prosecutors at all courts in Prussia and, if necessary, had the opportunity to take up the work of a local public prosecutor on the spot in particularly difficult cases. In his capacity as advisor to the Central Public Prosecutor's Office, Haacke became aware of numerous internals of National Socialist criminals, which is why he was called in as a witness in several important post-war trials.

On March 1, 1939, Haacke was accepted into the Schutzstaffel (SS) (membership number 314.952) due to his position as deputy liaison officer of the Reich Ministry of Justice to the chief of the German police (= Heinrich Himmler ), in which he was given the honor of an Obersturmführer . He had previously been a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA) from April 15, 1937 to February 28, 1939 , in which he last achieved the rank of Oberscharführer.

In October 1939 Haacke was appointed head of a special department in the Reich Ministry of Justice , which had the task of checking indictments in important cases and thus intervening in the jurisdiction of the special courts created at the beginning of the war . The aim of this measure was to increase the effectiveness of the criminal justice system. During this time he was promoted to Ministerial Director on May 21, 1941 by Hitler .

At the end of the war, Haacke was taken prisoner by the Allies and was interned in the Neuengamme camp from May 15 (or July) 1945 to May 19, 1947. He took part as a witness in the Nuremberg trials , specifically in trials against Joel and Ernst Lautz . In the course of his arbitration chamber proceedings, he was classified in category III (less polluted).

In the post-war period, Haacke made a living as a civil engineering worker in Bremen. Most recently, he was proven to be a lawyer in Hamburg in 1969 .

Promotions

  • May 22, 1931: Court assessor
  • June 8, 1933: Public Prosecutor's Office
  • January 30, 1935: First public prosecutor
  • October 29, 1936: Chief Public Prosecutor
  • May 21, 1941: Ministerial Director

Archival material

  • SS leader personnel file (Federal Archives: SSO inventory, film 45-A)

Fonts

  • The Prussian Penal Enforcement and Mercy Law of August 1, 1933 (GS.S.293) together with the Implementing Ordinance and the Ordinance on Pretrial Detention of August 1, 1933 , 1933.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register of the Hamburg-Eimsbüttel registry office No. 237/1975.
personal data
SURNAME Haacke, Werner von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haacke, Moritz Werner von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1975
Place of death Hamburg-Eimsbüttel