Erich Schmidt-Leichner
Erich Schmidt- Leichner ( born October 14, 1910 in Berlin, † 17 March 1983 ) was a German defense lawyers.
Life
Erich Schmidt- Leichner studied from 1929 Law at the University of Berlin, where he worked as an assistant in 1934 and a doctorate on " awareness of injustice and error in their importance for the intent in the criminal law ." Both state examination he passed with distinction. In 1937 he became Chief Assessor, 1938 Court Assessor, 1940 Judge and 1943 Kammergerichtsrat. From May 1941 Schmidt- Leichner worked in the Office of Criminal Legislation of the Reich Ministry of Justice.
From 1947 he was involved as a defender at the Nuremberg trials. He was a member of other defenders in the Flick Trial and in the IG Farben Trial; in the Wilhelmstrasse trial against leading members of the Foreign Office he acted as independent counsel. In 1949 he settled as a lawyer in Frankfurt am Main and was admitted as a defense lawyer at the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main. In the same year, he refused to let be reactivated as a Judge.
He has published in the New Law, and the attorneys' weekly journal. He gained media notoriety the early 1960s as a set -back of Werner Heyde in order to process the action T4 before the District Court of Limburg, which his client withdrew from suicide. From October 1966 he took Franz Six as defendants in the Berlin investigations against members of the Reich Security Main Office.
In April 1966, he participated as one of 17 lawyers and political scientist Hans Buchheim part in a meeting in Königstein im Taunus, which dealt with the question of the management of criminal justice with Nazi crimes. The results were presented in September 1966 at the 46th German Jurists in Essen.
He was a member of the German Bar Association and speaker whose " summer course", which dealt with criminal law and statutory law and every year took place abroad, as well as a member of the founded in 1974, German defense lawyers eV and from the mid 1970s until his death at the age of 72 years its chairman.
Writings
- Erich Schmidt- Leichner: awareness of injustice and error in their importance for the intent in criminal law. Kurtze, Wroclaw 1935.