Gideon Hausner
Gideon Hausner ( born September 26, 1915 in Lviv, † November 15, 1990 in Jerusalem) was an Israeli lawyer and politician. Hausner was known as the chief prosecutor in the trial of Adolf Eichmann.
Life
Hausner's father worked in Lviv as a teacher and chief rabbi and was later Secretary of Theodor Herzl. In 1927 he emigrated with his parents to Palestine. In Tel Aviv, he attended secondary school. He then studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem philosophy and thereafter until 1942 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Law School the tray law.
At the time of the British Mandate over the territory of Palestine, he served in the British police, and as a member of the Haganah, he fought in 1948 in the Jerusalem Brigade. After the founding of the state, he worked as an Israeli military prosecutor and as President of the Military Court. On July 1, 1960 you appointed him Attorney General.
Hausner became world famous when he appeared in 1961 as chief prosecutor and attorney general in the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. The special skill of the prosecution of Hausner was that he was able to prove by numerous documents, and more than one hundred witnesses for each charge that Eichmann had violated fundamental rights of victims and the Jewish people. After the trial, Hausner denied the release of the biographical diaries of Adolf Eichmann. An action of a son of Adolf Eichmann on the publication of the diaries in 2000 was unsuccessful.
1963 was Hausner on the position of the Attorney General and began his career as a politician. Two years later he was elected as a deputy of the Party of the independent Liberals in Parliament the Knesset. 1969 and 1973 he was re-elected as an MP. In 1974, he ended the mandate in Parliament and went as minister without portfolio in the government.
In 1977, he won a seat in parliament again. When his party in 1981 did not meet the selection conditions, he had to resign from the Parliament. As honorary office he had the Presidency of the Council of Yad Vashem. On November 15, 1990, he died as a result of cancer in Jerusalem.
Writings
- Justice in Jerusalem, New York 1966
- Justice in Jerusalem. Translated by Peter de Mendelssohn, Munich 1967
- The extermination of the Jews - The greatest crime in history, Munich 1979