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.
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17 October 1899 Freiburg, Germany
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15 August 1993 (aged 93) Königstein im Taunus, Germany
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Zodiac | Libra |
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