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Horst Neubauer
Horst Neubauer served as judge of the German Special Court in Łódź. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Łódź and the Wartheland through documented office, decisions, supervision or operational conduct. It does not assign every crime committed by an institution or region to one individual.
Confirmed findings
- Neubauer served as a judge of Sondergericht Litzmannstadt in annexed Łódź.
- The court formed part of the repressive German judicial system imposed on the Wartheland.
- His documented responsibility was adjudicative: issuing and participating in special-court judgments under occupation law.
Place in the chain of responsibility
Neubauer shows personal judicial agency inside the occupation's special-court machinery. The classification follows the function and power to decide cases, not an unverified ranking based on the number of sentences.
Key events and mechanisms
- During the occupation he adjudicated in the Litzmannstadt Special Court.
- The court enforced discriminatory and repressive law in territories annexed to the Reich.
- No postwar court convicted Neubauer for this judicial work.
The circle records authority, function and agency. Several profiles may describe different parts of the same persecution chain, so profile-level totals must not be added together.
Postwar accountability
Neubauer lived until 1981 without a conviction for his decisions in occupied Łódź.
Limits of the evidence
The current sources establish his qualification for inclusion but not a complete biography or exhaustive judgment list. Further work should consult the cited study by Holger Schlüter and personnel records.
Sources
The source set combines institutional, archival, trial or scholarly material from at least two independent publishers.