University of Berlin University of Breslau University of Freiburg
Occupation
Lawyer
Known for
Served as assistant U.S. chief counsel during the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg
Spouse
Ruth Benedicta Kempner
Children
Lucian Kempner Andre Kempner
Robert Max Wasilii Kempner (17 October 1899 – 15 August 1993) was a German lawyer of Jewish descent who played a prominent role during the Weimar Republic and who later served as assistant U.S. chief counsel during the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Kempner studied law at the University of Freiburg and served as a public prosecutor in Berlin during the 1920s. In 1928, he was appointed chief legal adviser in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior. In this role he sought to prosecute Adolf Hitler for high treason and to ban the Nazi Party.
After the Nazi Party's rise to power in 1933, Kempner was dismissed from the ministry and had his citizenship revoked because he was Jewish. He fled Germany in 1935. He settled in Italy, where he taught law, and moved to the United States in 1939. In the United States he became an adviser to the government, and he returned to his native country to take part in the Nuremberg trials in 1945. After the trials he remained in Germany, where he practised as a lawyer in Frankfurt from 1951. He died in Königstein im Taunus.
Robert Max Wasilii Kempner (17 October 1899 – 15 August 1993) was a German lawyer of Jewish descent who played a prominent role during the Weimar Republic...
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visit to Germany, Irving met RobertKempner, one of the American prosecutors at the Nuremberg trials. Irving asked Kempner if the "official record of the...
missing, along with other material which had been given to the prosecutor RobertKempner (1899–1993). It was recovered in Lewiston, N.Y., on 13 June 2013. Written...
to Christianity) Hermann Kantorowicz, jurist Walter Kaskel, jurist RobertKempner, jurist Paul Laband, jurist, b. Breslau (converted to Christianity)...
Germany, Frankfurter was convicted. Future Nuremberg trial prosecutor RobertKempner, who attended the Tehlirian trial, believed that it was the first occasion...
his answer to the exonerating testimony of the Nuremberg prosecutor RobertKempner, that Globke had served with his willingness to testify. Although Globke...
of German South-African interstate commerce. He died in Düsseldorf. RobertKempner dedicated a short obituary to Bohle, whom he'd met while visiting Landsberg...
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Banality Of Evil, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005, p. 6 RobertKempner, Edith Stein und Anne Frank – zwei von Hunderttausend, Freiburg 1968...
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to the Nuernberg trials by Ossip K. Flechtheim. When interrogated by RobertKempner before being released again, Schmitt niggled: "There is nothing being...
forty-ninth American state. He was interrogated by German-American lawyer RobertKempner in December 1947. In 1948, during the denazification process, Wirsing...
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