Heinrich Jauch (1894–1945) was the Prosecuting Attorney of the Special Tribunal (German: Sondergericht) Hamburg in the criminal trial against the Soviet agent during the interwar period Jan Valtin and 52 other defendants of whom nine were condemned to death.
Jauch crushed with this trial the Red Navy (German: Rote Marine) Hamburg.
Valtin reports in his biography “Out of the Night”, the US-bestseller of 1941 and the TIME “Book of the Year”, the trial and the executions:
Day after day we sat on the prisoners' benches, a cadaverous crew of outcasts surrounded by all the symbols of Hitler power.
The Prosecuting Attorney, a tall, thin, pale-faced man named Jauch, dominated the hearings.
His hatred for us was undisguised.
His eyes flashed and  his lips drew back in snarls as he demanded death, and nothing but death.

— Jan Valtin, Out of the Night
The trial is regarded to be the model for the Moscow Trials which were a series of three show trials held in the Soviet Union at the instigation of Joseph Stalin between 1936 and 1938.
I these trials Stalin got rid of most of the surviving Old Bolsheviks, as well as the former leadership of the Soviet secret police.
In addition, it is believed that Heinrich Jauch has won the majority of the death sentences in Hamburg bevor he was called to Berlin.

The first who were sentenced to death were executed on 19 May 1934.
Formerly a guillotine had been used, but it had been discarded as a French method of decapitation.
Since then people were put to death with an executioner's ax.

There were the judges of the Special Tribunal and Prosecutor Jauch, all wearing cutaways and topheads. ...
They were followed by a long train of storm troop officers and Elite Guards. ...
Last to come was the headsman, a chunky individual  with a big-boned face and dull brown eyes.
He showed complete emotional indifference to the task ahead of him.
He, too, wore a stiff white shirt, striped trousers, a cutaway and a top head. ...
the headsman raised his ax over comrade Dettmer's head.
He did not strike.
He simply let it fall on Johnny's neck.
Then, with an easy motion, he drew the blade toward him, and stepped back.
Johnny Dettmer's head fell into the basket.

— Jan Valtin, Out of the Night
The executions under the direction of Heinrich Jauch became, entwined with the events of the Altona Bloody Sunday, the literary model for a novel and two films.
The novelist Arnold Zweig red 1938 in a newspaper in Haifa the mistaken information that Dettmer and others had been executed by a master butcher named Fock who after a couple of months had committed suicide.
Zweig made literary use of the beheadings and the alleged fate of the headsman and published 1943 the novel Das Beil von Wandsbek (The axe of Wandsbek).
1951 an East German film script, The Axe of Wandsbek was adapted from the novel followed by the West German film Das Beil von Wandsbek (1982).
In memory of Jonny Dettmer a Stolperstein was set into the ground in front of the house where he lived in Hamburg-Eilbek.

In 1937 Heinrich Jauch brought the charge against Arnold Bernstein a shipowner and pioneer of transatlantic car transport.
Bernstein was  imprisoned on charges of foreign exchange offenses.
At the time of his arrest, he was the owner of one of the largest Jewish businesses in Germany.
The company was confiscated without compensation and after an additional payment of $30,000 in U.S. currency, Bernstein was allowed to leave Germany.
The show trial is regarded to be the first major Aryanization of Jewish property.

Similarly, Heinrich Jauch organized that the Nazi state reached control over the trading firm Alfred C. Toepfer Company owned by Alfred Toepfer.
He arrested Toepfer on charges of foreign exchange offenses between 1937 and 1938 until Toepfer gave up control over his firm.
Heinrich Jauch (1894–1945) was the Prosecuting Attorney of the Special Tribunal (German: Sondergericht) Hamburg in the criminal trial against the Soviet agent during the interwar period Jan Valtin and 52 other defendants of whom nine were condemned to death. Jauch crushed with this trial the Red Navy (German: Rote Marine) Hamburg. Valtin reports in his biography “Out of the Night”, the US-bestseller of 1941 and the TIME “Book of the Year”, the trial and the executions:
Day after day we sat on the prisoners' benches, a cadaverous crew of outcasts surrounded by all the symbols of Hitler power. The Prosecuting Attorney, a tall, thin, pale-faced man named Jauch, dominated the hearings. His hatred for us was undisguised. His eyes flashed and  his lips drew back in snarls as he demanded death, and nothing but death.
— Jan Valtin, Out of the Night
The trial is regarded to be the model for the Moscow Trials which were a series of three show trials held in the Soviet Union at the instigation of Joseph Stalin between 1936 and 1938. I these trials Stalin got rid of most of the surviving Old Bolsheviks, as well as the former leadership of the Soviet secret police. In addition, it is believed that Heinrich Jauch has won the majority of the death sentences in Hamburg bevor he was called to Berlin.
The first who were sentenced to death were executed on 19 May 1934. Formerly a guillotine had been used, but it had been discarded as a French method of decapitation. Since then people were put to death with an executioner's ax. 
There were the judges of the Special Tribunal and Prosecutor Jauch, all wearing cutaways and topheads. ... They were followed by a long train of storm troop officers and Elite Guards. ... Last to come was the headsman, a chunky individual  with a big-boned face and dull brown eyes. He showed complete emotional indifference to the task ahead of him. He, too, wore a stiff white shirt, striped trousers, a cutaway and a top head. ... the headsman raised his ax over comrade Dettmer's head. He did not strike. He simply let it fall on Johnny's neck. Then, with an easy motion, he drew the blade toward him, and stepped back. Johnny Dettmer's head fell into the basket. 
— Jan Valtin, Out of the Night
The executions under the direction of Heinrich Jauch became, entwined with the events of the Altona Bloody Sunday, the literary model for a novel and two films. The novelist Arnold Zweig red 1938 in a newspaper in Haifa the mistaken information that Dettmer and others had been executed by a master butcher named Fock who after a couple of months had committed suicide. Zweig made literary use of the beheadings and the alleged fate of the headsman and published 1943 the novel Das Beil von Wandsbek (The axe of Wandsbek). 1951 an East German film script, The Axe of Wandsbek was adapted from the novel followed by the West German film Das Beil von Wandsbek (1982). In memory of Jonny Dettmer a Stolperstein was set into the ground in front of the house where he lived in Hamburg-Eilbek.
In 1937 Heinrich Jauch brought the charge against Arnold Bernstein a shipowner and pioneer of transatlantic car transport. Bernstein was  imprisoned on charges of foreign exchange offenses. At the time of his arrest, he was the owner of one of the largest Jewish businesses in Germany. The company was confiscated without compensation and after an additional payment of $30,000 in U.S. currency, Bernstein was allowed to leave Germany. The show trial is regarded to be the first major Aryanization of Jewish property.
Similarly, Heinrich Jauch organized that the Nazi state reached control over the trading firm Alfred C. Toepfer Company owned by Alfred Toepfer. He arrested Toepfer on charges of foreign exchange offenses between 1937 and 1938 until Toepfer gave up control over his firm.
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