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Records of the prosecution of Ludwig Wendel, charged as a "public enemy" for repeated thefts

NMT 3

Authors

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)

Oswald Rothaug (prosecutor, People's Court; Special Court judge)

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Oswald Rothaug

German judge and Nazi war criminal

Born: 1897-05-17 (Mittelsinn)
Died: 1967-12-04 (Cologne)
Country of citizenship: Germany
Occupation: judge; prosecutor
Member of political party: Nazi Party (since: 1937-05-01)
Participant in: Judges' Trial (role: defendant)
Military branch: Wehrmacht (military rank: lance corporal)
Position held: Judge of the People's Court

Maria Wendel (mother of criminal defendant, Nuremberg)

Maria Wendel

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Schultze (Dr., presiding judge, Supreme Court, first senate)

Schultze

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Karl Ferber (Dr., district court judge, Nuremberg)

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Karl Ferber

director (judge) of a district court (Nazi Germany)

Occupation: judge
Participant in: Judges' Trial (date: 1946-11-20, 1947-01-24; role: affiant)
Significant person: Oswald Rothaug (role: colleague)
Employer: Nuremberg-Fürth District court

Public Prosecutor's Office, Nuremberg District Court

Date: 1941

Literal Title: Criminal Case at the Special Court Nuernberg against Wendel, Ludwig, bargee in Nuernberg

Defendant: Oswald Rothaug

Total Pages: 61

Language of Text: English

Evidence Code: NG-736

Exhibit Code: Prosecution 245

Document Book No: Prosecution 3

Citation: NMT 3 (page 2109)

HLSL Item No.: 6131

Notes:Not every separate item in the document has an identified author. The trial was held on 6 May 1940. Josef Mayerhofer was also tried in the case (and acquitted). The Supreme Court nullified Wendel's sentence in January 1941 and he was retried in July.

Trial Issue

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

Document Summary

Staff Evidence Analyses

NG-736: Case record of Ludwig Wendel, sentenced to death fifteen times by the Nuremberg Special Court, Judge Rothaug presiding; after the original sentence of 8 years' hard labor had been annulled by the Reich Supreme Court

Doc Book Tables of Contents

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