Hans Loerner

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Hans Lörner during the Nuremberg Trials . Photo taken in January 1947.

Johannes Georg Lörner , called Hans Lörner (born March 6, 1893 in Munich ; † unknown), was a German SS leader . Lörner was indicted in the Nuremberg trials and sentenced as a war criminal.

Life

Lörner, the son of a master locksmith, attended primary and secondary school in Munich until 1910. He then completed training in the technical and technical field and also attended evening school. From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War as a soldier .

After the war he trained to become a master locksmith. In 1922 at the latest, Lörner founded an iron construction company in which his brother Georg Lörner became commercial director. The company went bankrupt in February 1930. Soon after, he set up a new company.

On January 1, 1932, Lörner became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 2,541,670) and on April 1, 1933 of the SS (SS number 83,683). In the SS, Lörner reached the rank of Oberführer in 1944. After the takeover of the NSDAP Lörner took over as administrative officer different tasks within the regional SS administration. In October 1939 Lörner was accepted into the Waffen-SS and became administrative director at the General Inspection of the SS-Totenkopfstandarten . From 1940 Lörner was employed in the main office for budget and buildings as well as in the administration of the Waffen SS. From February 1942 Lörner was head of Office AI (Budget Office) of Office Group A (Troop Administration) in the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office (WVHA). In April 1944, when the head of Office A II Gustav Eggert was called up for military service, he also took over his office in personal union. In September 1944, Lörner became deputy head of Office Group A in the WVHA Heinz Fanslau .

After the end of the war

The defendants' closing remarks on September 22, 1947, at the microphone Oswald Pohl . Hans Lörner in the front row on the right.

After his arrest, Lörner and 17 other accused were indicted before the United States Military Tribunal II in the Economic and Administrative Main Office of the SS from January 13, 1947 . Lörner was particularly accused of his administrative work in the administration of the WVHA, through which the operation of the concentration camp was made possible. On multiple charges of war crimes , crimes against humanity and membership in criminal organizations Lörner was found guilty. Lörner was sentenced on November 3, 1947 to a ten-year prison term. After serving a partial sentence, he was released early from the Landsberg War Crimes Prison on February 1, 1951 . Nothing is known about his further life.

literature

Web links

  • Interview of Hans Lörner by Mr. Wolff on December 6, 1946 . In: Archive of the Institute for Contemporary History , Munich, signature ZS-1172−1 1948/56 ( online , PDF, 2.04 MB; minutes of Hans Lörner's interrogations during the Nuremberg trials).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Jan Erik Schulte: Forced Labor and Destruction: The Economic Empire of the SS. Oswald Pohl and the SS Economic Administration Main Office 1933-1945. Paderborn 2001, p. 471.
  2. ^ Walter Naasner (ed.): SS-Wirtschaft und SS-Verwaltung , Düsseldorf 1998, p. 344f.
  3. ^ A b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 377.
  4. ↑ Documentation of the legal proceedings , p. 0999ff. on www.www.mazal.org
  5. ^ Records of the United States Nuremberg War Crimes Trials , Vol. V. District of Columbia 1950, pp. 999ff.
personal data
SURNAME Loerner, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS leader and convict of the Nuremberg trials
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 20th century