Robert Kempner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Robert Kempner

German-American lawyer

Date of Birth: 17-Oct-1899

Place of Birth: Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Date of Death: 15-Aug-1993

Profession: lawyer, jurist

Nationality: United States, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Robert Max Wasilii Kempner (October 17, 1899 – August 15, 1993) was a German lawyer 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. After the Nazi Party's rise to power in 1933, Kempner was dismissed from the ministry and had his citizenship revoked because he was Jewish.
He fled Germany in 1935.
He settled in Italy, where he taught law, and moved to the United States in 1939.
In the United States he became an adviser to the government, and he returned to his native country to take part in the Nuremberg trials in 1945.
After the trials he remained in Germany, where he practised as a lawyer in Frankfurt from 1951.
He died in Königstein im Taunus.