Yitzhak Raveh

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Raveh at the Eichmann trial (right)

Yitzhak Raveh (born November 10, 1906 in Aurich as Franz Reuss , † November 8, 1989 in Tel Aviv ) was a German - Israeli judge .

Life

Yitzhak Raveh was born in Aurich as the youngest of six children of the Jewish teacher Heinrich and his wife Selma Reuss . In 1908 his family moved to Berlin. From 1924 to 1927 he completed a law degree at the University of Berlin . In 1929 he received his doctorate at the University of Halle on the ancillary service obligations of the members of registered cooperatives , after which Raveh worked as a lawyer . From 1931 Raveh was a district judge in Berlin-Charlottenburg before he lost his office in 1933 after the Nazi seizure of power and emigrated to Palestine with his young wife Batya . There he worked from 1934 to 1939 in an organization of German immigrants. In 1948/49 he became a civil servant in the land settlement authority, in 1952 he was appointed district judge in Tel Aviv. At this time he also gave up his German maiden name. In 1976 he retired.

In addition to Moshe Landau and Benjamin Halevi , Raveh was a member of the panel in 1961 before which the Eichmann trial took place.

literature

  • Lisa Hauff: The judges in the Eichmann trial. In: Werner Renz (editor): Interests around Eichmann. Israeli justice, German law enforcement and old comradeships. Campus publishing house, Frankfurt a. M. 2012, ISBN 978-3-593-39750-4 , pp. 122-123.

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