BERLINER BOERSEN ZEITUNG, 12 April 1933, night issue
Disguised Criminals Murder Jewish Lawyer.
Horrible Murder in Chemnitz.
T. U. Chemnitz, 12th April.
On Monday night the Jewish Lawyer Dr. Weiner was visited at his home by several men, who wore S.A. bands and brown caps, and taken away by force in an automobile. Next morning Dr. Weiner was found on the Wiedenauer Flur at Mittweida shot to death by a bullet through his head.
Police headquarters report the following:
"Here is no doubt that Dr. Weiner fell victim to a savage crime which obviously had been committed by enemies of the national movement. Here is no trace of the perpetrators. The following has been found so far: On 10th of April at 22:30 hours three men dressed in SA uniform demanded admittance to the lawyer's home in Chemnitz on Stollberg Strasse. Presenting an identification they declared that the lawyer was arrested and requested him to follow them. The lawyer checked the identification personally and remarked upon a question of his wife that it were in order. The behavior of the men wras so confident that the wife of the lawyer and two of his friends who were then present failed to check with the police station, as repeatedly suggested by the press, although they had an emergency telephone -in their home by which they could have called the riot squad.
The fact is that no warrant for protective custody for the lawyer Weiner existed, and no warrant for his arrest was issued to the SA. Weiner was not even listed on the boycott roster for Jewish lawyers because he was a veteran of the last war in which he became an officer. An automobile has not been noticed in front of his home. But it is to be supposed that one was parked nearby. The culprits probably drove later to Wiederau. It is established that the shooting took place there in a sand hole. The fatal shot, obviously 3 shots have been fired, was fired at close range into the back of the head by a 6.35 Millimetef calibre pistol. It was no murder for robbery. Passport, driver's license, gold watch and more than 400 marks cash were found in the pockets of the dead.
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Two of the culprits are between 25 and 28, and the third is between 28 and 30 years of age."
BERLINER TAGEBLATT, 13 April 1933, night issue University professors given leave.
Preliminary measures against 16 academic teachers with leftist
tendencies
The Prussian Minister of Education, Dr. Rust, yesterday initiated the political coordination of institutions of higher learning, already predicted by us, by giving indefinite leave at once to 16 professors who politically are leftists or moderates. It is not yet a case of dismissal, but it must be assumed that these preliminary measures will soon be changed into permanent orders according to the new regulations concerning officials [Beamtengesetz].
At present mainly lawyers and economists are affected by this order. In two cases, however, personalities were affected who are affiliated with religious socialism. Professor Dr. Emil Lederer, one of the best known German teachers of theoretical economy, was given leave from Berlin University; politically his sympathies lie with the social-democratic party. Professor M. J. Bonn, former rector of the Berlin Handelshochschule (School of Economics), the most important pupil of Lujo Brentano and, like he an advocate of political and economic liberalism, was given leave from the above institution. The professors Herman Heffer (formerly assistant professor of state law in Berlin), Mannheim, Horkheimer, Loewe and Hugo Sinzheimer (the well-known labor law expert and former social-democratic member of the Reichstag) as well as the philosopher Tillich, a religious socialist, were given leave from Frankfurt University. The following were also affected by this order: In Cologne, the teacher of state law, Kelsen, formerly of Vienna, in Bonn the Professors Loewenstein and Kantorowicz, in Breslau professor of law Cohn, around whom centered many disputes within the last few months, and his colleague Marck, in Halle, the Theologian professor Dr. Guenther Dehn (formerly a clergyman in Berlin) who likewise is known to have had many conflicts with the student body, in Kiel the lawyer Kantorowicz, in Koenigsberg the professor of economics Feiler, affiliated with the School of Economics there, formerly editor of the "Frankfurter Zeitung" and member of the German Economic Council.
Wolf Telegraphic Agency adds the following commentary. "It is understood that these are only preliminary measures, and many
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more leaves etc. can be expected as soon as the institutions of higher learning will have received detailed directives for carrying out the decree."
We already expressed our hope in yesterday's editorial concerning "Intellectual Gleichschaltung" that the regulations of the new law should be applied as little as possible to academic teachers.
We should like to emphasize again today that we would consider it an impoverisation of our academic life if men with a European reputation like M. J. Bonn should be permanently deprived of their professional activities.
Newspaper articles on the killing of a Jewish lawyer by men in SA uniform and the suspension of leftist professors from universities
Date: 12 April 1933
Literal Title: Clipping from the Berliner Boersen Zeitung . . . Disguised Criminals Murder Jewish Lawyer.
Total Pages: 6
Language of Text: Multilanguage
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: L-201
HLSL Item No.: 450999
Notes:The document begins with three pages in German, apparently a translation of a message from the US consulate to the US secretary of state (19 April 1933), followed by the articles in English. This document was apparently not entered as evidence in the trial.
Document Summary
L-201: Photostatic copy of State Department Dispatch, Berlin, from Messersmith, concerning Jewish persecution with newspaper clippings and affidavits attached
Photostatic copy of State Department Dispatch, Berlin from Messersmith, concerning Jewish persecution, with newspaper clippings and affidavits attached