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Records of prosecution of Margareta Sponsel, charged as being a public enemy for stealing from the mail

NMT 3

Authors

J. Schneller (Dr., court physician, Nuremberg)

J. Schneller

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Rudolf Oeschey (judge and chief justice, Special Court, Nuremberg)

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Rudolf öschey

German judge (1903-1980)

Born: 1903-05-29 (Schwabmünchen)
Died: 1980-09-12 (Neuss)
Country of citizenship: Germany
Occupation: judge
Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1931-12-01)
Participant in: Judges' Trial (role: defendant)
Employer: Nuremberg-Fürth District court

Heinz Hoffmann (Dr., asst. judge, Special Court, Nuremberg)

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Heinz Hoffmann

judge (Nazi Germany)

Born: 1906-06-13 (Mainz)
Occupation: judge (since: 1933-01-01)
Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1937-05-01)
Member of: National Socialist Motor Corps (period: 1934-01-01 through 1937-01-01)
Participant in: Judges' Trial (date: 1947-03-08, 1947-03-12; role: affiant)
Significant person: Oswald Rothaug (role: colleague; since: 1940-01-01); Rudolf Oeschey (role: colleague; since: 1943-01-01)
Employer: Nuremberg-Fürth District court (since: 1938-01-01)

Josef Baeumler (Dr., judge, Special Court, Nuremberg)

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Josef Baeumler

German judge

Born: 1902-02-07 (Sueß)
Occupation: judge
Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1937-05-01); Sturmabteilung (since: 1935-09-01)
Participant in: Judges' Trial (date: 1947-01-22; role: affiant)
Significant person: Rudolf Oeschey (role: colleague)

Frauenholz (court clerk, Nuremberg)

Frauenholz

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Ernst Escher (Dr., defense attorney, Fuerth)

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Ernst Escher

German attorney

Born: 1897-02-22
Occupation: lawyer
Participant in: Judges' Trial (date: 1947-07-01; role: affiant)
Significant person: Oswald Rothaug (role: lawyer, presiding judge); Rudolf Oeschey (role: lawyer, presiding judge)
Residence: Fürth (since: 1929-01-01)

Otto Georg Thierack (President of People's Court; Minister of Justice, 1942-45)

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Otto Georg Thierack

German politician (1889-1946)

Born: 1889-04-19 (Wurzen)
Died: 1946-10-26 1946-11-22 (Sennelager Civilian Internment Camp No. 7, Eselheide Paderborn)
Country of citizenship: Germany
Occupation: judge; politician
Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1932-01-01)
Member of: Corps Guestphalia et Suevoborussia Marburg
Participant in: Aryanization; The Holocaust (role: criminal)
Position held: Federal Ministry of Justice; Judge of the People's Court; Reich Minister of Justice (period: 1942-08-20 through 1945-05-23; replaces: Franz Schlegelberger)

Adolf Paulus (senior prosecutor, Nuremberg)

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Adolf Paulus

lawyer; affiant in Judges' Trial

Born: 1904-04-15 (Landshut)
Occupation: prosecutor
Participant in: Judges' Trial (date: 1947-07-12; role: affiant)
Significant person: Rudolf Oeschey (role: colleague)
Employer: Nuremberg-Fürth District court
Residence: Bayreuth

Date: 16 June 1944

Literal Title: Prosecution at the District Court Nuernberg-Fuerth . . . Against Sponsel Margareta postoffice clerk in Fuerth

Defendant: Rudolf Oeschey

Total Pages: 15

Language of Text: English

Evidence Code: NG-750

Exhibit Code: Prosecution 189

Document Book No: Prosecution 3

Citation: NMT 3 (page 1254)

HLSL Item No.: 6109

Notes:The trial was held on 16 June 1944.

Trial Issue

People's Court and Special Courts, use of (IMT, NMT 3)

Document Summary

Staff Evidence Analyses

NG-750: Case file of Margarete Sponsel, a feeble-minded girl, who was sentenced to death by the Nuremberg Special Court for confiscating field-post packages

Doc Book Tables of Contents

NG-750: Case file re sponsel, sentenced for death by Nurnberg special court.