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Language of Description: English
Country: Germany

  1. Landgericht Braunschweig

    Zivilprozesssachen und Strafprozesssachen (1797-1973); Zivil- und Strafprozessregister; Ehescheidungsakten (1934-1945); Gerichtsverwaltungsakten (1935-1945)

  2. Nachlässe

  3. NSG trials collection

    The collection Nationalsozialistische Gewaltverbrechen (NSG)-Verfahren (Nazi violent crimes trials) has continuously been assembled, extended and maintained since the establishment of the Fritz Bauer Institute in 1995. It contains records of various investigation and penal proceedings regarding Nazi violent crimes (NSG-Verfahren) in the Federal Republic of Germany, the German Democratic Republic and the Peoples' Republic of Poland. The documents come from diverse holdings, including the private property of former judges and prosecutors, defense attorneys and representatives of the accessory...

  4. Pre-death legacy Gerhard Wiese

    Gerhard Wiese was born in Berlin on August 26, 1928. Deployed as an anti-aircraft assistant, he was taken as a prisoner of war by the Soviets. He was released in 1946. Subsequently, he studied law in Berlin and Frankfurt (Main). He passed his state examination and then worked as a state prosecutor, first in Fulda and as of 1961 in Frankfurt. Starting in 1962, Gerhard Wiese participated in the preparation and the conduct of the proceedings against Mulka and others (4 Ks 2/63), the so called First Frankfurt Auschwitz trial. With the prosecutors Vogel and Kügler, he pressed charges and drafted...

  5. Pre-death legacy Hans Fertig

    In 2013, the lawyer Hans Fertig (1929-2015) transferred his written pre-death legacy with extensive records regarding his occupation as a counsel at several proceedings regarding Nazi violent crimes (NSG-Verfahren) from the 1960s to the 1980s to the Fritz Bauer Institute. Hans Fertig was born on February 4, 1929 in Amorbach in the Forest of Odes where he passed his Abitur in 1949. He then studied law in Würzburg. In 1959, he passed his first state examination (Referendarexamen) and in 1963 his second state examination (Assessorexamen). During his preparatory service, he earned his doctorate...

  6. Pre-death legacy Heimo Moßbauer

    Heimo Moßbauer was born in Judenburg, Austria on May 28, 1941. He lived in Frankfurt (Main) for a long time and worked as a cellist. The pre-death legacy Heimo Moßbauer covers after description, demetallization, and filing six archival units with a total extent of 0.15 running meters. Since the record group did not have an inner structure upon the acquisition the processor Inga Steinhauser completely reorganized the holding during indexing in December 2022. It follows the “rules for the description of personal papers and autographs” (RNA, Regeln zur Erschließung von Nachlässen und Autograph...

  7. Pre-death legacy Heinz Düx

    Heinz Düx transferred documents of his professional and personal life one by one to the Fritz Bauer Institute in the late 2000s. Heinz Düx was born in Marburg on April 24, 1924. After his Abitur, he studied law at the Philipps University in Marburg from 1942 to 1948. His studies were intermitted in 1944 and 1945 when he was obligated to work for the railway yard Marburg and when he stayed at the Vogelsberg to avoid being drafted into the Volkssturm. After the end of the war, Düx joined the KPD and was a member of the denazification committee of the Marburg University's law faculty. In 1946 ...

  8. Pre-death legacy Johannes Warlo

    In 2013, the Fritz Bauer Institute acquired the pre-death legacy of chief prosecutor Johannes Warlo including comprehensive records from his work at the attorney general's office in Frankfurt (Main). The pre-death legacy mostly documents Warlo's investigation into Nazi violent crimes, especially into the so-called euthanasia. Johannes Warlo was born in Gleiwitz in Upper Silesia in 1927. Before finishing school, he was conscripted to the Kriegsmarine as an officer candidate. In 1945, he was a British prisoner of war for a few months. Then, he took an extra course for high-school graduates an...

  9. Pre-death legacy Jürgen Glanz

    The pre-death legacy of Jürgen Glanz (1932-2019), the associate judge of the Third Frankfurt Auschwitz trial (criminal case against Erich Grönke, Bernard Bonitz and Josef Windeck (4 Ks 1/67)), was transferred to the Fritz Bauer Institute by his wife in November 2018. Jürgen Glanz studied law and worked as an assistant judge at the Amtsgericht Frankfurt (Main) since November 1963. In December of the same year, he was transferred to the Landgericht Frankfurt (Main). On January 1, 1964, he became the assistant judge for the investigation proceedings and later associate judge for the criminal c...

  10. Pre-death legacy Jürgen Hess

    The Fritz Bauer Institute acquired the holding from Jürgen Hess himself. Jürgen Hess was a state prosecutor and worked in the political department of the prosecution at Frankfurt (Main) from 1964 to 1996. He was especially concerned with Nazi violent crimes. Representing the prosecution, he conducted numerous proceedings concerning Nazi violent crimes (NSG-Verfahren) at the Landgericht Frankfurt (Main), for example, the fifth and sixth Frankfurt Auschwitz trial against Alois Frey and Willi Rudolf Sawatzki (4 Ks 2/73) and against Josef Schmidt and Horst Czerwinski (50/4 Js 773/70). During hi...

  11. Pre-death legacy Jürgen Pieplow

    Jürgen Pieplow was born in Rostock in 1935. After his Abitur, he started working for the regional press as a drawer, graphic designer, and journalist. Since he was denied to study in the GDR, he moved to West Berlin in 1956 and studied there at the Academy for Visual Arts. Starting in 1962, he worked as a publishing and advertising graphic designer in Hamburg. He worked for several companies including Springer and the Jahreszeiten-Verlag. From 1971 to 1977, he worked as a designer and a public relations consultant for Aktion Sühnezeichen and other Christian peace services. In the late 1970s...

  12. Pressesammlung

  13. Stadt Dachau

    • Dachau
    • City of Dachau