Josef Törnig (* 7 March 1900 in Menden, † unknown) was a promoted German jurist in the service of the Nazi regime
Törnig was at the University of Bonn in 1924 on the topic To what extent can one offense be committed by another as an instrument? PhD.
From 1940 he was a prosecutor and prosecutor at the III. and V. Criminal Chamber of the Special Court of Prague. Within the scope of this service, he had the task of accusing the resistance against the German occupation according to the stipulated NS law and regulations. He applied for at least eight death sentences, which were also imposed by the special court. Among them, people were handed over to the executioner who had given other people a place to stay for one or more nights. The death sentence (GZ: 5 K Ls 295/43) of August 5, 1943, stands out particularly against Marie Nedorost, who had given her son the advice to overthrow the Red Army, which he also obeyed.
Nothing is known about his denazification and his fate after the Second World War. At the beginning of the 1960s, Törnig worked as a public prosecutor in Essen, and Reinhard M. Strecker, the organizer of the exhibition Nazi Nazis, had brought an investigation against the Prague judges and prosecutors.
In Czechoslovakia, Törnig was sought on a list for war criminals under the number A-38/91. Also the United Nations War Crimes Commission noted it on the alphabetic index of war criminals. Edit source text Single-level Edit source text
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