Otto Georg Thierack was born on the 19th of April 1889 in the town of Wurzen, then part of the German Empire. His father Heinrich Otto was a merchant, and his mother Antonie was a housewife. When the First World War began on the 28th of July 1914, Thierack voluntarily enlisted in the German Army. He suffered a facial injury, was decorated with the Iron Cross second class, and when the world war ended on the 11th of November 1918, he held a rank of Leutnant, which was equivalent to the rank of second lieutenant in the US Army.Thierack then resumed his interrupted legal training and completed it on the 10th of April 1920, with the judicial examination. In the same year, he was appointed assistant judge in Saxony, and from 1921 until 1926, he worked at the public prosecutor’s office. In October 1926, he moved to Dresden where he worked at the Higher Regional Court as a public prosecutor. In 1935 Thierack became Vice President of the Reich Court and in May 1936 President of the People’s court. The People’s court was established in 1934 by order of Adolf Hitler, in response to his dissatisfaction at the outcome of the 1933 Reichstag fire trial in front of the Reich Court of Justice, in which all but one of the defendants were acquitted. The court had jurisdiction over a rather broad array of “political offenses”, which included crimes like black marketeering, work slowdowns, defeatism, and treason against Nazi Germany.
The Second World War began on the 1st of September 1939. By August 1942 when Thierack was replaced by the fanatical Nazi judge Roland Freisler, the People’s Court Senate, which Thierack presided over, heard 87 cases. In 33 cases, death sentences were handed down against Czech and German residents of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
Join World History channel and get access to benefits:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKKy_pNKZBX4KcCct8505HA/join
Disclaimer: All opinions and comments below are from members of the public and do not reflect the views of World History channel.
We do not accept promoting violence or hatred against individuals or groups based on attributes such as: race, nationality, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation. World History has right to review the comments and delete them if they are deemed inappropriate.
► CLICK the SUBSCRIBE button for more interesting clips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKKy_pNKZBX4KcCct8505HA/?sub_confirmation=1
#worldhistory
#history
#worldwar2videos
