Max Alsberg [SEP] manner of death
Max Alsberg
Max Alsberg (16 October 1877 – 11 September 1933) was a famous criminal lawyer of the Weimar Republic.
Alsberg worked primarily as a criminal defense lawyer; he defended Karl Helfferich in 1920 and Carl von Ossietzky in 1931. He also wrote plays ("Voruntersuchung" in 1927, and "Konflikt"). His best known contribution to legal science is the handbook "Der Beweisantrag im Strafprozess".
Max Alsberg committed suicide by gunshot on 11 September 1933.
opponent of courtroom injustice, and he went so far as to assemble the funds to hire Horace Mastronardi and other lawyers to appeal Jaccoud's conviction. Despite his efforts, the case was never reopened.
The criminal law expert Karl Peters puts Sutermeister's "Summa iniuria" in the context of the earlier works of Erich Sello, Max Alsberg, Albert Hellwig, Max Hirschberg and Heinrich Jagusch and considers him as a "committed fighters for a constitutionally protected Criminal Justice".
Bibliography.
The bibliography of Hans Martin Sutermeister