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Roeder, the son of a [[Landgericht]] director from [[Kiel]], served in [[World War I]] in the 83rd Field Artillery as a lieutenant.<ref>Heinz von Höhne, [http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-45997502.html "Die Geschichte des Spionageringes 'Rote Kapelle'"] ''[[Der Spiegel]]'' (July 8, 1968). Retrieved January 30, 2012 {{de icon}}</ref> |
Roeder, the son of a [[Landgericht]] director from [[Kiel]], served in [[World War I]] in the 83rd Field Artillery as a lieutenant. He became a judge in 1934 and soon after, was made a military judge.<ref name="spiegel-68">Heinz von Höhne, [http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-45997502.html "Die Geschichte des Spionageringes 'Rote Kapelle'"] ''[[Der Spiegel]]'' (July 8, 1968). Retrieved January 30, 2012 {{de icon}}</ref> |
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Roeder was known to Hitler and Göring as one of the hardest and most loyal military judges; to the Nazis' prisoners, he was nicknamed "Hitler's blood judge",<ref name="spiegel-68" /> a name also given to [[Roland Freisler]]. |
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== Postwar legal battle == |
== Postwar legal battle == |
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Revision as of 00:15, 1 February 2012
Manfred Roeder (August 20, 1900 – October 18, 1971) was a military judge in Nazi Germany. Serving on the highest wartime court, he lead the examinations and shared responsibility for the 56 death sentences of the Reich court martial in the trials of German Resistance group the Red Orchestra, as well as those of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Wilhelm Canaris and Hans von Dohnanyi. In January 1945, Roeder was appointed a general judge.
Life and career
Roeder, the son of a Landgericht director from Kiel, served in World War I in the 83rd Field Artillery as a lieutenant. He became a judge in 1934 and soon after, was made a military judge.[1]
Roeder was known to Hitler and Göring as one of the hardest and most loyal military judges; to the Nazis' prisoners, he was nicknamed "Hitler's blood judge",[1] a name also given to Roland Freisler.
Postwar legal battle
On September 15, 1945, former Prussian Culture Minister Adolf Grimme, friend of the executed Adam Kuckhoff and himself a former member of the Red Orchestra, filed a complaint against Roeder for perversion of justice, however in 1951, the case was halted by the state's attorney in Lüneburg for lack of reasonable suspicion. The final report came to the conclusion, the trials before the Reich court martial were not objectionable and the accused were rightly sentenced to death, since in all ages, treason has been treated as the "most ignominous crime" and the participants of the July 20, 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler were driven in broad measure by treason and espionage.[2]
Greta Kuckhoff, Adolf Grimme and Günther Weisenborn tried to file a lawsuit against Roeder to constrain him, but the case was delayed by the state's attorney in Lüneburg until the end of the 1960s, at which point it was closed and dropped.[3]
After the war, Roeder was a visible and active member of the CDU, serving in a number of capacities, including deputy mayor in his community, Glashütten, in Taunus.
Manfred Roeder had a son in 1937 who was named after him, but is not related to Manfred Roeder, the right-wing extremist, who was born in 1929.
Sources
- Helmut Kramer: Als hätten sie nie das Recht gebeugt. In: Ossietzky. 23/2002. Verlag Ossietzky (see external link)
- Hiska D. Bergander: Die Ermittlungen gegen Dr. jur. et rer. pol. Manfred Roeder, einen „Generalrichter“ Hitlers – Eine Untersuchung zur unbewältigten Rechtsgeschichte der NS-Justiz, Doctoral dissertation, Bremen, 2006
- Elke Endrass: Bonhoeffer und seine Richter. Ein Prozess und sein Nachspiel Stuttgart: Kreuz, 2006, ISBN 3-7831-2745-9
- Heinrich Grosse: Niemand kann zwei Herren dienen - Zur Geschichte der evangelischen Kirche im Nationalsozialismus und in der Nachkriegszeit" Blumhardt Verlag, Hannover, 2nd edition 2010. ISBN 978-3-932011-77-1
- Lower Saxony state capital archive: 56 volumes from preliminary proceedings of the Lüneburg state's attorney, fully available at Der Spiegel house archive, Hamburg
References
- ^ a b Heinz von Höhne, "Die Geschichte des Spionageringes 'Rote Kapelle'" Der Spiegel (July 8, 1968). Retrieved January 30, 2012 Template:De icon
- ^ Helmut Kramer, "Als hätten sie nie das Recht gebeugt" Ossietzky No. 23 (2002). Retrieved January 29, 2012 Template:De icon
- ^ Eva Liebchen, "Günther und Joy Weisenborn" Friedenau Netzwerk. Retrieved January 28, 2012 Template:De icon