David Lippert, judge, American military jurist | Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust

Name: David Lippert, judge, American military jurist

Historical Note: David I. Lippert, 1910 –1993, was active in the Nuremberg trials in post-war Germany. Lippert, who earned his law degree from the Los Angeles College of Law, had been an attorney for 10 years when he enlisted as a private in the U.S. Army in 1942. He later graduated from the Judge Advocate General's School and retired from the reserves with the rank of lieutenant colonel. From 1946 to 1949 he was chief of section in the fields of military justice and international affairs for the war trials in Germany. Lippert served as president of the GI Council of Frankfurt, which assisted displaced people in Germany after the war. He retired in 1975 as a Los Angeles judge on the state Workers' Compensation Appeals Board

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