Alfred Hasselberg

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Alfred Hasselberg (born September 30, 1908 in Essen , † April 3, 1950 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German lawyer with the rank of government councilor, SS-Sturmbannführer and Gestapo employee .

Life

Hasselberg studied after finishing school law and a doctorate on Dr. jur. at the University of Erlangen . His dissertation on the question of statute of limitations in the coming criminal law: Can the institute of statute of limitations for criminal prosecution and the execution of sentences, as it is in the current law in d. Sections 66–72 of the Reich Criminal Code are retained? appeared in 1935. During his studies he became a member of the Frankonia fraternity in Bonn in 1927 .

Hasselberg had already joined the SA in 1933. He became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 2.837.238) and switched from the SA to the SS (SS number 272.286). In the SS, he rose to SS-Sturmbannführer in 1938. He entered the service of the Secret State Police Office in Berlin in 1935 . From 1936 he headed the Stapo Headquarters in Schneidemühl and then the Stapo Headquarters in Dortmund .

After the outbreak of World War II , Hasselberg headed Einsatzkommando 3 of Einsatzgruppe I in German-occupied Poland from the end of September 1939 , which murdered thousands of people in Poland. From November 1939 he was briefly in command of the Security Police and the SD (KdS) in Lublin .

In December 1939 Hasselberg was ordered back to Berlin. He had developed moods and airs with his subordinates . Reinhard Heydrich , then chief of the security police, asked the Reich Security Main Office to determine whether any of Hasselberg's ancestors had suffered from a mental illness.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hinrich Rüping : Bibliography on Criminal Law in National Socialism, Oldenbourg, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-486-52711-8 , p. 104.
  2. a b Klaus-Michael Mallmann, Jochen Böhler and Jürgen Matthäus: Einsatzgruppen in Poland: Presentation and documentation . Scientific Book Society, Stuttgart 2008, p. 24
  3. Alfred Hasselberg on www.dws-xip.pl
  4. Jochen Böhler : The attack: Germany's war against Poland , p. 210 ff. (Section uncontrolled acts of revenge - planned destruction )