Robert Kempner

✶October 17, 1899

†August 15, 1993

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Robert Max Wasilii Kempner 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.

German-American lawyer (1899–1993)

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