Adolf Hezinger

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Adolf Emil Hezinger (* 3. February 1905 in Mettingen (Esslingen am Neckar) , † 2. August 2001 in Herrsching ) was a German diplomat and hauptsturmführer in the era of National Socialism .

Life

Hezinger, a businessman by trade, stayed in Milan from 1925 . From 1930 onwards, Hezinger was employed as a secretary at the German consulate in Florence . After the takeover by the Nazis Hezinger was from 1 May 1933 member of the NSDAP ( member number 1565338) and was from February 1934 to March 1937 the HJ on. From 1937 to 1940 he was head of the NSDAP / AO regional group in Italy under the regional group leader Erwin Ettel . From January 1, 1940, he was a member of the SS (membership number 347.190), to which he was accepted with the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer . He had previously been civil servant and was taken over to the Foreign Office .

In 1940 Hezinger was transferred from the Foreign Office to the German embassy in Iran in Tehran . When Iran was occupied by the British Army in the late summer of 1941 , Hezinger returned to Germany via Turkey, where he headed Erwin Ettel's office in the Foreign Office. In 1943, Hezinger became Consulate Secretary 1st class.

From February 1944 he was a consultant for the Inland II group (among other things, responsible for "Jewish affairs") at the Foreign Office, where he assisted the group leader Horst Wagner . In this function he was also involved in anti-Semitic propaganda abroad and took part in this context on April 3 and 4, 1944, at the “Working Conference of the Jewish Advisors of the German Missions in Europe” in Krummhübel to coordinate appropriate anti-Jewish measures.

After the occupation of Hungary by the Wehrmacht on March 19, 1944, Hezinger was from April 1944 advisor for Jewish questions at the German legation in Budapest and was a member of the staff of the "Plenipotentiary of the Greater German Empire in Hungary" Edmund Veesenmayer . Hezinger was the liaison man of the German legation to the German and Hungarian offices that carried out the deportations of the Hungarian Jews . Hezinger registered those Jews in the camps who u. a. should not be deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp because of their nationality . Theodor Horst Grell succeeded him in this position at the end of May 1944 . Most recently, Hezinger was a member of Adolf Eichmann's staff in Hungary.

Hezinger was drafted into the Waffen-SS at the beginning of August 1944 and did military service until the end of World War II .

After the end of the war, from December 1947 to June 1948, Hezinger was questioned several times during the Nuremberg Trials . According to his own statements, he was denazified as a “minor offender” . He then worked as a businessman in Breitbrunn am Ammersee . From 1957 Hezinger was consulate secretary at the Bonn Foreign Office. After Weitkamp, ​​Hezinger was not taken back into the service of the Foreign Office and received no pension. Hezinger is in the Brown Book of the GDR listed. Investigations initiated against him were discontinued by the Frankfurt am Main regional court in 1976.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to: Sebastian Weitkamp: Hezinger, Adolf Emil . In: Wolfgang Benz (Hrsg.): Handbook of Antisemitism - Anti-Semitism in Past and Present. Volume 2/1: People AK. Berlin 2009, p. 358.
  2. ↑ Sebastian Weitkamp: Brown diplomats. Horst Wagner and Eberhard von Thadden as functionaries of the "Final Solution". Dietz, Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-8012-4178-0 , p. 113.
  3. ^ Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR: Von Ribbentrop zu Adenauer: a documentation about the Bonn Foreign Office. Berlin 1961, p. 52.
  4. ^ A b c Sebastian Weitkamp: Hezinger, Adolf Emil . In: Wolfgang Benz (Hrsg.): Handbook of Antisemitism - Anti-Semitism in Past and Present. Volume 2/1: People AK. Berlin 2009, p. 358f.
  5. ^ A b Christoph Dieckmann : Cooperation and Crime: Forms of "Collaboration" in Eastern Europe 1939-1945 . Wallstein Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-89244-690-3 , p. 61.
  6. ^ Igor-Philip Matic: Edmund Veesenmayer. Agent and diplomat of the National Socialist expansion policy . Oldenbourg 2002, ISBN 3-486-56677-6 , p. 253.
  7. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 254.
  8. ↑ Records of the United States Nuernberg War Crimes trials Interrogations 1946-1949. (PDF; 186 kB) 1977.
  9. ↑ Hezinger's interrogations during the Nuremberg Trials (PDF; 5.3 MB)
  10. ^ Andreas Förster: War crimes. What the Stasi wants to have known . In: Frankfurter Rundschau online. October 27, 2010.
  11. ^ Sebastian Weitkamp: Hezinger, Adolf Emil . In: Benz (Hrsg.): Handbook of Antisemitism - Anti-Semitism in Past and Present. Volume 2/1: People AK. Berlin 2009, p. 358f.
  12. ^ National Council of the National Front of Democratic Germany. Documentation center of the State Archive Administration of the GDR: "Brown Book". War and Nazi criminals in the Federal Republic and in West Berlin. State, economy, administration, army, justice, science . State publisher of the German Democratic Republic. Berlin 1968.
personal data
SURNAME Hezinger, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hezinger, Adolf Emil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Mettingen (Esslingen am Neckar)
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 2001
Place of death Herrsching am Ammersee