DISMISSALS OF JUDGES AND PROSECUTORS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A000800530002-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 3, 2003
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: April 17, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL IN.TELLIO.ENLCE.AGERCY
INFORMATION REPORT,
SECRZ J
COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT Dismissals of Judges and Prosecutors
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL Of CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
(FOR KEY SIR RIVER$E)
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1. A number of dismissals of judges and prosecutors of the East Berlin Courts
occurred in December 1952, and subsequently; most of.these ,were on stated
grounds of the official?* former Western connections. A number of those
dismissed are Jews. This action is-in line with the policy which has devel-
oped in the east ooze that all.exoept true-line Socialist Unity Party (SED)
judges and prosecutors, are to be eliminated in the general party purge.;
particularly where any Western connection, however remote, exists, or the
person is a Jew.
2. Judges dismiesed are=
Hams Einhorm, district court president and SED member; grounds unknown.
D*. Gstz Berger, president of the political criminal court; SED member;
relatives in England.
Albert.PlBtz, president of.the court of appeal, criminal senate; SED member;
resigned.
Leonhard Michaleok, second criminal court; SED member; grounds unknown.
Fuhrmazln. (fmu), criminal court president; SED member; grounds unknown.
Karl Wank, SED member; grounds unknown.
Rustau (fnu), court of appeals justice; SED member; grounds unknown.
Reinhold Bach, Peoples Court judge (Volksriohter), president of the SED
professional group; known for severe sentences; grounds unknown.
Also the People's Court judges,T%bbeke (fuu), Krug .(fnu), and Knappe (fnu),
all SED members.
3, All of the above named judges were active and loyal, SED people. Knappe and
Bach belonged to the Union of Those Persecuted by the Nazi Rigime (VT'A).
4. The presidents of the two civil Sonatas of the east-zone court of Appeal, Dr.
Schindler (fnu) and Ebelt (fnu)y were also dismissed. Schindler is a Jew.
These two, together with the lower-court'judge, D!r.;Grgpke (fnu), who was
also dismissed, were regarded as under Western influences.
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6. Public prosecutors dismissed:
Heitz Baer; was American prisoner of war.
Ludwig Paquot? was French prisoner of war.
Bartsch (fnu); gounds unknown.
Heinz Beetz;was American and British prisoner of war.
Fritz Budde; grounds unknown.
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Hans Malutaki; Amer crn pr sonar of wa+~r.
G{nter Ostheeren, chief prosecutor; American prisoner of war.
Frllsdrich Reinhardt; French prisoner of war.
Arnold Weggen; Yugoslav prisoner of war.
7. All of the above except Ostheeren and Mailutiki were SED members. Max Berger,
the former chief prosecutor for-East Berlin, has lost his position during the
reorganization, and is now a simple assistant.
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