Pre-death legacy Jürgen Hess

The Fritz Bauer Institute acquired the holding from Jürgen Hess himself. Jürgen Hess was a state prosecutor and worked in the political department of the prosecution at Frankfurt (Main) from 1964 to 1996. He was especially concerned with Nazi violent crimes. Representing the prosecution, he conducted numerous proceedings concerning Nazi violent crimes (NSG-Verfahren) at the Landgericht Frankfurt (Main), for example, the fifth and sixth Frankfurt Auschwitz trial against Alois Frey and Willi Rudolf Sawatzki (4 Ks 2/73) and against Josef Schmidt and Horst Czerwinski (50/4 Js 773/70). During his term in office, he also extended the legal assistance between the prosecution at Frankfurt and Polish authorities, particularly the General Committee for the Investigation into Nazi Violent Crimes in Poland. The pre-death legacy Jürgen Hess covers after description, demetallization, and filing six archival units with a total extent of 0.5 running meters. Since the record group did not have an inner structure upon the acquisition the processor Johannes Beermann-Schön completely reorganized the holding during indexing in August 2018. It follows the "rules for the description of personal papers and autographs" (RNA, Regeln zur Erschließung von Nachlässen und Autographen). The holding mostly contains records from proceedings concerning Nazi violent crimes (NSG-Verfahren) in which Jürgen Hess participated. Further, it covers verdicts regarding Nazi violent crimes given by several German Landgerichte, the Federal Supreme Court, and the Federal Constitutional Court. It also contains some records regarding the mutual legal aid from Poland and Israel to Germany in the 1960s and the 1970s.