Willi Geiger

Willi Geiger (22 May 1909 in Neustadt an der Weinstraße – 19 January 1994 in Karlsruhe) was a German judge. He was president of the Federal Court of Justice of Germany and Associate Justice in the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.

Biography After the Nazi seizure of power 1933 Geiger joined the SA and in 1934 the National Socialist Association of Legal Professionals and National Socialist People's Welfare. In 1937, he joined the NSDAP. Geiger worked as a prosecutor at the Bamberg Sondergericht and gave at least five times capital punishment.

From 1941 to 1943, Geiger served as a prosecutor at the Bamberg Special Court. He obtained death sentences there in at least five cases, including against an 18-year-old who was alleged to have committed sexual acts against a minor slightly younger than himself. Geiger rejected a plea for clemency from the defense attorney because of the defendant's youth. He attended the execution and enforced that it be publicized by posters and press notices. Another verdict concerned a forced laborer who had drawn a pocket knife against six to eight young boys who were beating him. Geiger made a point of publicizing the death sentence through posters.