Wilhelm of Ammon

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Wilhelm von Ammon during the Nuremberg legal trials

Wilhelm von Ammon (born March 17, 1903 in Memmingen , † December 13, 1992 in Stuttgart ) was a German lawyer .

Life

Wilhelm von Ammon studied law and became a member of the Bubenruthia Erlangen fraternity during his studies in 1921 . In 1926 at the University of Munich with his thesis “The binding illegal order” he was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD. After the seizure of power in 1933, he joined the SA and in 1935 became a district judge in the Reich Ministry of Justice . After joining the NSDAP in May 1937, he was promoted to district court director in June 1937. After working at the Munich Higher Regional CourtAmmon was transferred back to the Reich Ministry of Justice in 1940, where he was promoted to Ministerial Counselor in March 1943. There he led under Wolfgang Mettgenberg "the group that dealt with" night and fog "matters ". He presented Justice Minister Otto Georg Thierack and State Secretary Herbert Klemm with “lists of many hundreds of death sentences” which he had already classified as “smooth” or “doubtful”.

On December 14, 1947 Ammon in was Nuremberg jurists process because of its involvement in the implementation of the measures for Nacht und Nebel sentenced to ten years in prison, on February 3, 1951 due to clemency by the American High Commissioner John J. McCloy from released from the Landsberg War Crimes Prison . From 1957 to 1970 he was director of the Lutheran regional church office in Ansbach and, from the mid-1960s, received a pension from his work as a ministerial advisor in the Reich Ministry of Justice. He also wrote a commentary on the Bavarian church constitution.

Publications

  • The binding illegal order . Breslau 1926 (= dissertation)
  • with Reinhard Rusam: Constitution of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria from November 20, 1971 . Munich 1978

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 7: Supplement A – K. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 , pp. 14-16.
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
  • Lore Maria Peschel-Gutzeit (Ed.): The Nuremberg jurists' judgment of 1947. Historical context and current references. Nomos-Verlag, Baden-Baden, 1996. ISBN 3-7890-4528-4

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Juristen judgment, pp. 185–187.
personal data
SURNAME Ammon, Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Memmingen
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1992
Place of death Stuttgart