Hans Wilhelm Blomberg

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Hans Wilhelm Blomberg (born September 27, 1906 in Rheine ; † January 10, 1946 in Oslo ) was a German lawyer, SS-Obersturmbannführer and senior Gestapo employee .

Life

Blomberg studied law and received his doctorate for Dr. jur. He was a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 2,467,090) and SS (SS number 280,046). From mid-May 1938 to 1939 he was head of the Gestapo in Erfurt. From May 1940 to October 1940 he was in command of the Security Police and the SD (KdS) in Tromsø and then also used as KdS in Bergen until April 1944. Blomberg was engaged to a Norwegian actress. From July 1944 to May 1945 he was Josef Kreuzer's successor as head of the Hamburg Gestapo and in this function played a key role in the deportation of Hamburg's Jews . The Hamburg Gestapo's Jewish Department carried out two deportations to Theresienstadt under his direction . In the SS he rose to SS-Obersturmbannführer at the end of January 1943. Blomberg was promoted to the higher government council.

After the war ended, Blomberg's attempt to go into hiding in Bremen failed . A British military tribunal in Oslo sentenced him to death on December 4, 1945 . In the summer of 1943, on the orders of the Higher SS and Police Leader North, Wilhelm Rediess , Blomberg had several members of an Allied commando, who were landing on the Norwegian coast in speedboats, shot in violation of international law. On January 10, 1946, Blomberg was executed in Akershus Fortress in Oslo .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Linde Apel, Hamburg Authority for Culture, Sport, Media, in collaboration with the Research Center for Contemporary History in Hamburg and the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial (ed.): Sent to death - The deportations of Jews, Roma and Sinti Hamburg, 1940 to 1945 . Metropol Verlag, Hamburg 2009 - DVD for the exhibition, The Gestapo
  2. ↑ a b Hans Blomberg. dws-xip.pl/
  3. ^ Marlis Gräfe, Bernhard Post, Andreas Schneider: The Secret State Police in the NS Gau Thuringia 1933–1945. Sources on the history of Thuringia . II. Half volume, published by the State Center for Political Education Thuringia . Unchanged new edition. 2005, ISBN 3-931426-83-1 .
  4. ^ Herbert Diercks : Documentation town house. The Hamburg police under National Socialism. Texts, photos, documents . Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial , Hamburg 2012, p. 35
  5. ↑ Norbert Frei : Transnational politics of the past: dealing with German war criminals in Europe after the Second World War . Wallstein Verlag: Göttingen 2006, p. 379.
  6. ↑ Robert Bohn: Selected Problems of Northern European History in the 19th and 20th Century . Franz Steiner Verlag, 1993, p. 109
personal data
SURNAME Blomberg, Hans Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, SS-Obersturmbannführer and leading Gestapo employee
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Rheine
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1946
Place of death Oslo