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Report to the prosecutor general at Munich, on the killing of Leonhard Hausmann at Dachau by an SS man (Karl Ehmann), who is facing charges

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Karl Wintersberger (Dr., prosecutor, district and state courts, Munich)

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Karl Wintersberger

German judge

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  • Born: 1880-01-01 (Eggenfelden)
  • Died: 2000-01-01
  • Country of citizenship: Germany
  • Occupation: judge
  • Member of political party: German National People's Party; Nazi Party
  • Educated at: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
  • VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/455150085862915060004
  • WorldCat Identities ID: https://worldcat.org/identities/viaf-455150085862915060004

Date: 01 June 1933

Literal Title: Subject: Decease of the arrestee (Schutzhaftegefangener) Leonard Hausmann in the Dachau concentration camp.

Total Pages: 1

Language of Text: English

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: PS-642

Citation: IMT (page 1830)

HLSL Item No.: 451409

Notes:In the transcript the evidence code is misstated as "6428-F"; PS 642 is correct.

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Concentration camp system (administration, forced labor, abuse of inmates)… Criminal organizations (Gestapo, Leadership Corps, Cabinet, SS, SD, OKW) (…

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PS-642: Report from the Prosecuting Official to the Public Prosecutor General, Munich, on the killing of Hausmann in Dachau Concentration Campa

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PS-642: Report of the public prosecutor at the district court Munich ii to the. general public prosecutor at the court of appeal, Munich, 1 June 1933, concerning the murder' of Leonhard Hausmann in the Dachau concentration camp by an Ss-guard

File No: G 866/33 Munich, 1 June 1933
State Prosecution at the
State Court [Landgericht] Munich
Local Telephone: 5791 Long Distance: 57801.
To the Prosecutor General at The Supreme State Court _ [Oberlandesgericht] Munich.
Subject: Decease of the arrestee in protective custody, Leonhard Hausmann in the Dachau concentration camp.
No. 12431 with one copy submitted to the State Minister for Justice, Munich, 2 June 1933 The Prosecutor General at the. Supreme State Court.
[signature illegible]
On 17 May 1933, Leonhard Hausmann from Augsburg,'31 years old, married, relief worker, who was kept in protective custody in the Dachau concentration camp, was shot by SS staff sergeant Karl Ehmann. According to the account of the latter, Hausmann was to dig out young fir trees in the woods in the vicinity of the camp and pile them up on a certain spot. He was supervised by Ehmann. Suddenly the latter did not see him anymore. Therefore Ehmann looked after the prisoners and saw him running away in a stooped position, Ehmann ran after him, called "Halt" several times, once also "Stop", but in vain. Whereupon Ehmann raised his pistol at the prisoner and fired without aiming; Hausmann dropped dead. Ehmann asserts that he fired from a distance of 10 to 12 meters.
The corpse was inspected already on 17 May 33 with the assistance of the state court physician. It was found that death was due to a shot through the left side of the chest. According to the autopsy protocol, the shot was fired from a distance less than 1 meter. Meanwhile the legal-medical institute ascertained that the distance was less than 30 cm.
. Today I have preferred public charges against Ehmann and have requested to begin and to carry out a preliminary court investigation and to issue an arrest warrant against him for danger of escape and of prejudicing the course of justice.
I shall report about the course of the process.
The Supreme State Prosecutor [signed] Wintersberger
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