Wolfgang Zarnack

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Zarnack at the time of the Nuremberg Trials

Wolfgang Friedrich Wilhelm Zarnack (born July 9, 1902 in Eberswalde ; † June 5, 1980 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German lawyer and SA leader.

Life

Zarnack, son of the Veterinary Council Heinrich tooth, completed after his school years studying law and a doctorate on Dr. jur. He then worked as a lawyer and notary . During his studies he became a member of the Franconia Berlin fraternity in 1921 .

Political activity

Zarnack had been active in the nationalist movement since 1918 and was a member of the Reinhard Brigade in Berlin from 1919 to 1921 . He joined the NSDAP and SA in 1923. In the SA he achieved at least the rank of SA-Sturmbannführer. From 1930 Zarnack belonged to the staff of the Supreme SA Leadership East and became a trainee lawyer in the SA group in Berlin-Brandenburg . In addition, from 1930 Zarnack was Gauobmann of the Association of National Socialist German Jurists (BNSDJ) and head of law at the NSDAP Reichsleitung. He belonged to the Academy for German Law .

As district chairman of the BNSDJ, Zarnack operated the “elimination” of Jewish lawyers after the National Socialists came to power . For example, on March 22, 1933, he chaired a conference in Berlin calling for only lawyers of “ German origin ” to be admitted to practice and for Jewish lawyers to be excluded from this profession. In the August 7, 1935 edition of the Nazi magazine Das Schwarze Korps , Zarnack dealt with the “call on the population to arrest Jews”.

In the Brown Book published in the GDR after the end of the Second World War , Zarnack is named as the trustee of the Reich Ministry of Economics and is said to have been “significantly involved in the ' Aryanization ' of Jewish assets”.

post war period

After the end of the war, Zarnack was revoked by the court of honor of the Frankfurt am Main Bar Association. The reason for this said that it was uncertain whether Zarnack would "practice the legal profession in full accordance with the demands of a democratic administration of justice". Zarnack successfully intervened against this decision and was re-admitted to the bar in Frankfurt am Main in June 1955 .

After that, Zarnack also acted as a defender in Nazi trials. In February 1963, he defended the lawyer and co-organizer of the T4 campaign, Gerhard Bohne, and the defendant Arthur Breitwieser in the first Frankfurt Auschwitz trial .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , p. 406.
  2. ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 690f.
  3. ↑ a b Erich Stockhorst: 5000 heads - Who was what in the Third Reich , p. 457f.
  4. ↑ Wolfram Fischer: Exodus of Sciences from Berlin: Questions - Results - Desiderata , Academy of Sciences in Berlin, 1994, p. 141.
  5. ↑ The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933-1945, Volume 1, German Reich 1933-1937 , edit. by Wolf Gruner, Munich 2008, p. 466.
  6. ↑ Braunbuch , p. 504 on archive.org
  7. ↑ see also 1942, expropriations in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, in: Detlef Brandes : "Umvolkung, Umsiedlung, racial inventory": Nazi "Volkstumsppolitik" in the Bohemian countries . Oldenbourg, Munich, 2012 ISBN 978-3-486-71242-1 p. 127, fn. 484, 486
  8. ^ Angelika Königseder, Law and National Socialist Rule: Berlin Lawyers 1933-1945 . Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-8240-0528-X , p. 223.
  9. ↑ Auschwitz Trial - those involved in the process at www.saalbau.com
personal data
SURNAME Zarnack, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zarnack, Wolfgang Friedrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and SA leader
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Eberswalde
DATE OF DEATH 5th June 1980
Place of death Frankfurt am Main