Cuhorst hit the judge career after the study of the jurisprudence. Since 1930 it was member and circle speaker and starting from 1 January 1933 also gau speaker of the NSDAP. 1933 took place Cuhorsts appointment as the upper government advice in the Ministry of Justice.

It reached the high point of its career on 1 October 1937, when it the line of the special court yard became to transfer from Stuttgart, an institution, which had been already furnished in April 1933, but attained only by Hermann Cuhorst its notorious call.

Thus he condemned a native of stuttgart, who had stolen its Christmas bonus at a value of 65 realm Marks from a worker after a tavern route, under appointment to the public enemy regulation, to death for example in January 1940.

Cuhorst imposed at least 120 death sentences, predominantly against homosexual ones and thieves. Many of the processes took less than 20 minutes up. Gerichtsassessoren reported, as he process-took part with the words my gentlemen, in to the battle bank!"” or "“well, today we have three cases, must at least two heads give"” psychologically traktierte.

On 20 November 1944 Cuhorst was called up into the armed forces. Up to the end of war in April 1945 it fought at the east front.

It succeeded to it to hide itself 19 months in Germany. In November 1946 he was arrested and in the framework the of lawyer process accused. On 4 December 1947 the judgement took place. It was expressed in acquietal, since the abuse of the justiceship could not be proven to it.

In the so-called Entnazifizierungsverfahren in October 1948 the arbitration board V von Stuttgart-Bad CAN place gradated it into the group of the "“mainguilty"” in and condemned it to four years and three months labour camp, large confiscation of property and hunted it restrictions of occupation up.

Cuhorst went before the central appointment chamber from into revision. This confirmed not only the judgement, but extended its detention to six years, from which he had to serve however only two; it will dismiss prematurely on 20 December 1950.

During its last 40 years Cuhorst fought in vain for compensation and re-establishment of its call, last to 21. May 1968. Also he tried pensions before various courts unsuccessfully its to firstridden.

His bio graph Stefan Baur stressed, Cuhorst went it thereby not around the material; he believed only in his task and in the national socialism.

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