Arthur Harder
Karl Arthur Alexander Harder (born September 19, 1910 in Frankfurt am Main ; † February 3, 1964 ibid) was a German SS-Hauptsturmführer , adjutant to the leader of the Sonderkommando 1005 and convicted war criminal .
Life
Arthur Harder was the son of a businessman. After graduating from elementary school in 1926, he attended a business school and completed a commercial training. In 1929 he joined the NSDAP and the SA . In 1930 he became a member of the SS . He then worked as a commercial clerk at wallpaper factories. From 1938 he worked full-time for the SD in the SD section of Düsseldorf .
After the attack on Poland , Harder came to Poznan with a task force . From 1940 to 1943 he worked in Lissa for the central office for migrants in Litzmannstadt . On his own initiative he was assigned to a task force in the Caucasus in the operational area of the SS division Wiking . In the summer of 1943 he became Paul Blobel's adjutant in Sonderkommando 1005. From September to November 1943, Harder trained and directed the command at Trostinez Estate near Minsk . This property was administered by the KdS office in Minsk and also served as a place for mass executions and a warehouse for property. In the autumn of 1943 Harder was involved in a live cremation of three people near the Trostinez manor. He covered the pile of corpses and wood intended for cremation with brushwood, put a stake in the pile, to which a victim was then tied, and was present when the victims were cremated. At the end of 1944 he was transferred to the Iltis Einsatzgruppe.
At the end of the war he was taken prisoner in Yugoslavia , from which he fled. In Carinthia , he was by British troops arrested and warehouse Taranto interned. Handed over to the Americans by the British, he was sent to the Dachau internment camp in 1946 and then to the Darmstadt internment camp . In July 1948 he was released from the Darmstadt internment camp. Then Harder initially worked as a bricklayer until he found work as a commercial clerk at Krupp-Kraftfahrzeuge in Frankfurt am Main in 1952.
The Koblenz District Court issued an arrest warrant against Harder on February 4, 1960. At the same time, the Hamburg public prosecutor's office was also investigating Harder for murders during his time at Sk 1005. The Koblenz Regional Court sentenced him on May 21, 1963 to three years and six months in prison for aiding and abetting murder . Harder died before the verdict became final .
literature
- Jens Hoffmann: You can't tell: "Aktion 1005", how the Nazis removed the traces of their mass murders in Eastern Europe , Konkret Verlag, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-930786-53-4 .
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
- Christina Ullrich: "I don't feel like a murderer" - The integration of Nazi perpetrators into post-war society . WBG, Darmstadt, 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-23802-6 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Christina Ullrich: "I don't feel like a murderer" - The integration of Nazi perpetrators in post-war society , Darmstadt, 2011, pp. 252-254.
- ^ A b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 226.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Harder, Arthur |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Harder, Karl Arthur Alexander (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German SS-Hauptsturmführer, adjutant of the leader of the Sonderkommando 1005 |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd February 1964 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |