. NMT03-T0489
Volume III · Page 489
| Hanseatic court of appeal are concerned, I have requested the president of the senate, Dr. Struve, at present my permanent deputy, to assist me by holding conferences with the presidents of the senates at regular intervals at which the presidents will furnish a review of the cases which will come up in the near future. Generally the report can be brief. But it must furnish sufficient details in cases which require special attention according to the Fuehrer's speech, in order to enable my deputy to decide whether my intervention is necessary or expedient. In this connection the facts of the case and the decisive legal points of view will have to be discussed. I expect that these arrangements which are only destined to serve jurisdiction and to strengthen the position of the judges will meet with general approval, and I hope that my deputy will be fully supported by you. I shall of course continue to be at your disposal for personal discussions. |
| [Typed] [Signed] ROTHENBERGER |
| __________ |
| The President of the Hanseatic Court of
Appeal 3150 E — la/4 |
| Hamburg 36, 1 June 1942 |
| Registered |
| To: State Secretary Dr. Schlegelberger
Reich Ministry of Justice Berlin Your Ordinance of 9 December 1935 — 1a 11012. Following up my report of 11 May 1942 on the situation, I beg to inform that I have, in the meantime, taken the same steps in Bremen which I had taken in Hamburg as a consequence to the Fuehrer's speech. The authorities at Bremen (the Lord Mayor, the Kreisleiter, the President of the Police, the head of the Secret State Police, and the head of the SD district) have made the same arrangements with me as did the respective Hamburg authorities. |
| [Signed] ROTHENBERGER |
| c. Testimony of Defendant Rothenberger
Concerning His Memorandum on Judicial Reform |
| EXTRACTS FROM THE TESTIMONY OF DEFENDANT ROTHENBERGER* |
| DIRECT EXAMINATION |
| * * * * * * * * * * |
| DR. WANDSCHNEIDER (counsel for the defendant Rothen- [...berger] |
* Other extracts from the testimony of the defendant Rothenberger appear in sections V C 1 a. V C 3 a and V D 2.
