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Letters and memoranda on drafting a decree to reduce the legal and administrative rights of Jews
NMT 3
Authors
Roland Freisler (Dr., presiding judge of People's Court; undersecretary in Ministry of Justice)
Roland Freisler
German lawyer and judge (1893-1945)
- Born: 1893-10-30 (Celle)
- Died: 1945-02-03 (Berlin)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: judge; lawyer; politician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Schwarzburgbund
- Position held: Judge of the People's Court (period: 1942-08-20 through 1945-02-03; replaced by: Harry Haffner; replaces: Otto Georg Thierack); Member of Landtag of Prussia; member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany
- Educated at: University of Jena
Franz Schlegelberger (Dr., Secretary of State, acting minister, Ministry of Justice)
Franz Schlegelberger
German judge and politician (1876-1970)
- Born: 1876-10-23 (Königsberg)
- Died: 1970-12-14 (Flensburg)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: judge; jurist; politician; university teacher
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Participant in: Judges' Trial (role: defendant)
- Significant person: Reinhold Richter (role: acquaintance)
- Position held: Federal Ministry of Justice; Reich Minister of Justice (period: 1941-01-30 through 1942-08-19; replaced by: Otto Georg Thierack; replaces: Franz Gürtner)
Bretschneider (Dr., Ministry for Food and Agriculture)
Curt Bretschneider
assistant head, Reich Ministry of Science, Education and Culture
- Born: 1898-01-01
- Died: 1966-01-01
- Occupation: civil servant; politician
- Employer: Reichserziehungsministerium
- VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/20433285
Ernst Kaltenbrunner (chief of security police and security service (SD), RSHA)
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Austrian SS official, a major perpetrator of the Holocaust and convicted war criminal (1903-1946)
- Born: 1903-10-04 (Ried im Innkreis) (country: Austria-Hungary)
- Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg Court Prison)
- Country of citizenship: Austria; German Reich
- Occupation: lawyer; military officer; politician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Military rank: Obergruppenführer
- Military branch: Schutzstaffel (period: 1940-01-01 through 1945-01-01)
- Position held: Chef der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (period: 1943-01-30 through 1945-05-08); President of Interpol (period: 1943-01-30 through 1945-05-12; replaces: Arthur Nebe); member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany
Wagner (Dr., office of the High Command of the Wehrmacht)
Wagner
- Additional details not yet available.
Heinrich Himmler (Reichsfuehrer-SS and Chief of Police; Minister of Interior)
Heinrich Himmler
German Nazi politician; leader of the German SS and main architect of the Holocaust (1900-1945)
- Born: 1900-10-07 (Munich)
- Died: 1945-05-23 (Lüneburg)
- Country of citizenship: German Empire (period: 1900-10-07 through 1918-01-01); Nazi Germany (since: 1923-01-01); Weimar Republic (period: 1915-01-01 through 1937-01-01)
- Occupation: farmer; laboratory technician; occultist; politician
- Member of political party: Bavarian People's Party (period: 1919-01-01 through 1923-01-01); National Socialist Freedom Movement; Nazi Party
- Member of: Academy for German Law (since: 1933-01-01); Altreichsflagge (until: 1926-01-01); Artaman League; Bund Reichskriegsflagge
- Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch (date: 1923-11-09); Nazi human experimentation (role: administrator); Night of the Long Knives
- Significant person: Rudolf Brandt (role: secretary, stenographer; since: 1934-01-01)
Martin Bormann (Chief, Party Chancellery, deputy to Hess, then Hitler)
Martin Bormann
German Nazi Party official and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery (1900-1945)
- Born: 1900-07-17 1900-06-17 (Halberstadt)
- Died: 1945-05-02 (Berlin)
- Country of citizenship: German Empire; Nazi Germany; Weimar Republic
- Occupation: farmer; military personnel; politician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Schutzstaffel
- Participant in: Aryanization; International Military Tribunal (role: defendant; since: 1945-11-19)
- Military rank: Obergruppenführer; soldier
Wilhelm Frick (Minister of the Interior; chief of Nazi delegation, Reichstag; admin. Plenipotentiary)
Wilhelm Frick
German Nazi official (1877-1946)
- Born: 1877-03-12 (Alsenz)
- Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: diplomat; lawyer; politician
- Member of political party: German Völkisch Freedom Party; National Socialist Freedom Movement; Nazi Party
- Member of: AGV München; Thule Society
- Participant in: Aryanization; Beer Hall Putsch; International Military Tribunal (role: defendant)
- Position held: Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (period: 1943-08-24 through 1945-05-04; replaces: Konstantin von Neurath); Reichsminister des Innern (period: 1933-01-30 through 1943-08-20; replaced by: Heinrich Himmler; replaces: Franz Bracht); member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany; member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic
Date: 03 August 1942
Literal Title: Re: Restriction of legal rights for Jews in criminal cases.
Defendants: Curt Rothenberger, Franz Schlegelberger
Total Pages: 25
Language of Text: English
Evidence Code: NG-151
Exhibit Code: Prosecution 204
Document Book No: Prosecution 3
Citations: NMT 3 (page 1494), NMT 3 (page 2748), NMT 3 (page 8889), NMT 3 (page 4925)
HLSL Item No.: 6154
Notes:Not every text has an identified author.
Trial Issue
Document Summary
Staff Evidence Analyses
NG-151: Limitation of legal remedies for Jews (Rechtsmittelbeschraenkung [Illegible])
Doc Book Tables of Contents
NG-151: Correspondence, dated August 1942 to April 1943:
Limitation of legal remedies for Jews.
Limitation of legal remedies for Jews. See Book III H
Correspondence with reference to the passing of an ordinance limiting legal remedies for Jews involving the defendants STUCKART and LAMMERS.