Peter Deeg was a German

Germany

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 lawyer

Lawyer

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, writer

Writer

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 and politician

Politician

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. He was a member of the NSDAP and later the Christian Social Union of Bavaria

Christian Social Union of Bavaria

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Early politics

Peter Deeg was born in Bad Kissingen

Bad Kissingen

Bad Kissingen is a spa town in the Bavarian region of Lower Franconia and is the seat of the district Bad Kissingen. Situated to the south of the Rhön Mountains on the Franconian Saale river, it is a world-famous health resort.- Town structure :...

. He was a NSDAP party-member since the year 1928. He became famous with the so called “Mordfall von Waltershausen

Saal an der Saale

Saal an der Saale is a municipality in the district of Rhön-Grabfeld in Bavaria in Germany. It is situated on the river Fränkische Saale. The municipality consists the two townships Saal an der Saale and Waltershausen....

” (Murder of Walterhausen (a small village in northern Bavaria

Bavaria

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) — with a spectacularly court hearing in 1933). This conflict has an antisemtic background. Because of the contact to important lawyers, he came in contact with Julius Streicher

Julius Streicher

Julius Streicher was a prominent Nazi prior to World War II. He was the founder and publisher of Der Stürmer newspaper, which became a central element of the Nazi propaganda machine...

. He became Deegs mentor.

National Socialism

Julius Streicher

Julius Streicher

Julius Streicher was a prominent Nazi prior to World War II. He was the founder and publisher of Der Stürmer newspaper, which became a central element of the Nazi propaganda machine...

 allowed Deeg to publish his books in the NSDAP publishing house Der Stürmer

Der Stürmer

Der Stürmer was a weekly tabloid-format Nazi newspaper published by Julius Streicher from 1923 to the end of World War II in 1945, with brief suspensions in publication due to legal difficulties. It was a significant part of the Nazi propaganda machinery and was vehemently anti-Semitic...

. Between 1938 and 1940, three famous books were published: Hofjuden (Court Jew

Court Jew

Court Jew is a term, typically applied to the Early Modern period, for historical Jewish bankers who handled the finances of, or lent money to, European royalty and nobility....

), Die Judengesetze Großdeutschlands (Jewish laws of Großdeutschland), Vor 50 Jahren. Für und wider den Russen-Pakt (50 years ago - pro or against the pact with Russia). Since 1940, Deeg seemed to be in conflict with the NSDAP. But this part of his life is not very clear.

After World War II

After World War II

World War II

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, Deeg became a close friend to Franz Josef Strauss. Together with him, he was a part of the Spiegel scandal

Spiegel scandal

The Spiegel Affair of 1962 was one of the major political scandals in Germany in the era following World War II.The scandal involved a conflict between Franz Josef Strauss, then Federal Minister of Defense, and Rudolf Augstein, owner and editor-in-chief of Der Spiegel magazine, Germany's leading...

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Works

• Qualifizierte Beihilfe in: „Goltdammer’s Archiv für Strafrecht“ (GoltdA) 1933.
• Inhalt und Ausübung des Strafantragsrechtes. Eine strafrechtliche Studie für Theorie und Praxis (Diss.) Stuttgart 1933.
• Der Judeneid unter Friedrich dem Großen in: „Zeitschrift der Akademie für deutsches Recht“ (ZAkDR) 1937.
• Hofjuden. Juden, Judenverbrechen und Judengesetze in Deutschland von der Vergangenheit bis zur Gegenwart (Hrsg. v. Julius Streicher) Nürnberg 1938.
• Die Judenpolitik Friedrichs des Großen in: „Deutsches Recht“ (DR 1, 2) 1938.
• Die Judengesetze Großdeutschlands (Hrsg. v. Julius Streicher) Nürnberg 1939.
• Vor 50 Jahren. Für und wider den Russen-Pakt Nürnberg 1940.
• Die Glanzvolle Leipzig 1942.
• together with Dietrich Deeg Zur Genealogie und Lebensgeschichte der Äbte Degen von Ebrach und Weiner von Banz Neustadt an der Aisch 1974.