Courtroom to revolutionary stage : performance and ideology in Weimar political trials / Henning Grunwald.
2012
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Author
Title
Courtroom to revolutionary stage : performance and ideology in Weimar political trials / Henning Grunwald.
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Call Number
KK9015 .G78 2012
Former Call Number
Ger 822 G92 2012
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780199609048 (hbk.)
0199609047 (hbk.)
0199609047 (hbk.)
Description
xii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)794814184
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-248) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1
Historiography
4
Rethinking Weimar political justice
12
Definitions and sources
13
Chapter structure
15
1.
The Rosa Luxemburg Trials of 1914 and the Emergence of the Ideal Type of the Weimar Party Lawyer
17
Wilhelmine legal culture and its discontents
19
`The best outcome is that where the party profits the most': The militarism trial and the revolution in Social Democrat defending
33
Conclusion
44
2.
`Nursing Revolutionary Fighters' and `Legal SA-Duty': Ten Political Lawyers
45
Biographies
51
Patterns of professional development
61
`Cleaning the toilet for Uncle Scrooge': party lawyers vs. their non-political peers
79
Conclusion
89
3.
`To Fight the Class Struggle with the Bourgeois Courts with All Acridity': the Communist Party Legal Organization
92
Communist legal aid: evolution and organizational structure
98
Communist legal aid in practice
106
Lawyers as agents of party control
123
Conclusion
131
4.
The Compliment of Imitation: The Rise of National-Socialist Legal Organizations
133
(Mis-)Managing the Rathenau trial: The Reich League of German Nationalist Trial Lawyers
135
Symbols without substance? The Patriotic Prisoners Aid/National Emergency Aid
141
The Association of National Socialist German Lawyers
151
5.
Performing Ideology: Rethinking Weimar Political Justice
171
The performativity of justice and German legal culture
173
`Better propaganda of the deed than the offence itself': political trials in the public sphere
180
Political trials and the aestheticization of politics
194
Conclusion
211
Conclusion
214
`Losing with a splash'
215
The end of the story: party lawyers after 1933
220
Weimar as a stick to beat Bonn: a plea to retire some historiographical cliches
224
Party lawyers on the Sonderweg?
227
Orestes vs. the Furies or how to perform judicial legitimacy
229
Appendix A
Party Allegiance of 36 Prominent Political Lawyers in the Weimar Republic
232
Appendix B
Occupation of 100 Lay Magistrates in Political Trials
233
Appendix C
The Hierarchy of the German Court System
235
Bibliography
237
Index
249