Wilhelm Spies (lawyer, 1907)
Wilhelm Spies (born August 27, 1907 , † January 31, 1994 ) was a German lawyer and Nazi war judge . After 1945 he was regional court director in Braunschweig until his retirement in 1972.
Life
Career in the Nazi state
Spies was a district judge in Braunschweig before he switched to army justice in 1934. He became a judge- martial in 1936 and a senior judge-judge in 1944. Towards the end of the war he was stationed in northern Norway . There, on May 9, 1945, one day after the German surrender , 60 German soldiers attempted to flee to Sweden, 17 kilometers away. Most of the soldiers succeeded in this, the eleven remaining were arrested by other German troops and brought before a court martial under Spies' direction. In addition to acquittals and long imprisonment sentences, Spies imposed the death penalty on four defendants for desertion and “military riot” . The judgment was approved by telephone by the commander of the 6th Mountain Division , Colonel Josef Remold . After the telephonic confirmation by the in Narvik stationed Commander General of the mountain troop Ferdinand Jodl on May 10, who refused a pardon, the four were convicted on the same day shot . Spies passed further death sentences, in absentia, ten days after the end of the war against nine of the refugees.
After the Second World War
After 1945 he was a district judge in Braunschweig and since 1965 district court director. He retired in 1972. In 1972 a criminal investigation was initiated against Spies and Remold at the Munich public prosecutor's office. He died on January 31, 1994.
literature
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt a. M. 2003, ISBN 3-10-039309-0 .
- Helmut Kramer (ed.): Braunschweig under the swastika. Bourgeoisie, Justice and Church - A series of lectures and their echo. Magni-Buchladen, Braunschweig 1981, ISBN 3-922571-03-4 .
- A "Filbinger" from Braunschweig. Braunschweiger Zeitung, April 16, 2007 on newsclick.de
- Idea of the cornerstone . In: Der Spiegel . No. 32 , 1972, p. 40 ( online - 31 July 1972 ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt a. M. 2003.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Spies, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and NS war judge |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 27, 1907 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 31, 1994 |