Wolfgang von Zeynek

Wolfgang von Zeynek (born September 30, 1908 in Prague , Austria-Hungary , † May 13, 1995 in Munich ) was a German lawyer .

Life

Zeynek was born in Prague as the son of a councilor and university professor, but after studying law he was unable to work in the Czech judicial service due to insufficient knowledge of the Czech language. That's why Zeynek became a lawyer in Königswart . In 1934 he joined the Sudeten German Party and in 1935 became the party's organizational leader. After the German takeover of the Sudetenland in 1938, Zeynek was accepted into the NSDAP and his legal expertise was used immediately. He became an assessor in 1939 and a public prosecutor at the Prague Special Court in February 1940 . In 1943, Zeynek also took over the provisional management of the Prague National Socialist Lawyers' Association .

After the war, Zeynek was sentenced to 15 years in prison by the Prague People's Court in 1948 and was released to the FRG in 1955 . In 1959 , the Nuremberg-Fürth district court set a preliminary investigation against him , which dismissed the complaint as a “communist-directed disturbance maneuver”. From 1960, Zeynek worked at that district court as a district judge .

See also

• Marianne Golz

literature

• Ernst Klee : Wolfgang von Zeynek , entry in ders .: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Updated edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 , p. 693