Herbert Klemm

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Herbert Klemm (15 May 1903 – 4 July 1963) was a German lawyer and SA-Oberführer who was a protégé of high-ranking Nazi officials Martin Bormann and Otto Thierack. He rose through the Nazi Party and government ranks to become the State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Justice in Nazi Germany. He also served in the short-lived Flensburg government in May 1945 as the acting Reichsminister for Justice. He was tried, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Judges' Trial at Nuremberg in 1947. His sentence was commuted and he was released in 1957. Klemm was born in Leipzig and studied law. He passed the Referendar examination in 1925, completed a legal clerkship, passed the Assessor examination in 1929 and then worked for the public prosecutor's office in Dresden until 1935. On 1 January 1931, he joined the Nazi Party (membership number 405,576). On 30 June 1933, he joined the SA, the Party's paramilitary organization, where he eventually attained the rank of SA-Oberführer. His SA assignments included being the legal advisor for the SA in the state of Saxony, as well as serving as the SA liaison officer to the Saxon Minister of Justice.