August Höhn

August Höhn (born August 19, 1904 in Lipporn , † August 7, 1982 in Düsseldorf ) was a German SS-Untersturmführer and protective custody camp leader in Sachsenhausen concentration camp .

Life

Hoehn completed by the end of his elementary school a tailor's apprenticeship and then worked in his profession, most recently as a master tailor. After the seizure of power in 1933 he became a member of the NSDAP and the SS . In the course of the beginning of the Second World War , he was assigned to the security team of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1939. From May 1941 he was on the staff of the camp commandant at Sachsenhausen concentration camp. From October 1942 to August 1943 he was camp leader in satellite camps Berlin light field of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. He was then deputy head of the protective custody camp in the main camp of Sachsenhausen .

After the war ended, Höhn was a Soviet prisoner of war . Höhn was charged as a war criminal with 15 other suspects in the Sachsenhausen trial for participating in the crimes in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp before a Soviet military court. On October 31, 1947, he was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment with compulsory forced labor and then imprisoned in the Vorkuta des Gulag labor camp .

In January 1956, Höhn was released from Soviet custody and released as a so-called non - amnesty in the Federal Republic of Germany . About the Foreign Ministry was the Federal Ministry of Justice on the whereabouts of the particularly loaded Nazi criminals, who had been dismissed, teaches. Already in July 1956 Hohn was in custody taken. Höhn and the two other accused Otto Böhm and Horst Hempel were indicted before the jury court at the Düsseldorf Regional Court for crimes committed in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. The subject of the proceedings included:

• “Execution of at least 200 prisoners as part of the ' special treatment ' of Russian prisoners of war in the barracks shot in the neck
• Strangulation or hanging of prisoners on the roll call square
• 27 prisoners of the 'Leather Command' were shot in the crematorium
• Shooting, hanging and gassing of individuals and groups of people transferred to KL Sachsenhausen for this purpose
• Shooting of 82 prisoners as part of the 'Scharnhorst' alert, which provided for the killing of certain prisoners by name when the camp was evacuated
• Killing of at least 2,000 sick prisoners when the camp was evacuated in early 1945
• Shooting of a total of around 230 Jewish prisoners who were transferred to KL Sachsenhausen during the evacuation of the Lieberose sub-camp
• Several prisoners shot during the evacuation march from KL Sachsenhausen in the direction of Lübeck ”.

On October 15, 1960, Höhn was sentenced to life imprisonment and lifelong loss of honor for seven times murder , two times manslaughter and aiding and abetting murder in five cases . The judgment was upheld in the 1962 appeal proceedings by the Federal Court of Justice . In May 1973 he was released from custody.

literature

• 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 .
• LG Düsseldorf, October 15, 1960 . In: Justice and Nazi crimes . Collection of German criminal judgments for Nazi homicidal crimes 1945–1966, Vol. XVI, edited by Irene Sagel-Grande, HH Fuchs, CF Rüter . Amsterdam: University Press, 1976, No. 497, pp. 607–721 Subject matter of the proceedings: Execution of at least 200 prisoners as part of the 'special treatment' of Russian prisoners of war in the shot-in-the-neck barrack. Strangulation or hanging of prisoners on the roll call square. 27 prisoners of the 'Leather Command' were shot in the crematorium. Shooting, hanging and gassing of individuals and groups of people transferred to KL Sachsenhausen for this purpose. Shooting of 82 prisoners as part of the 'Scharnhorst' alert, which provided for the killing of certain inmates by name when the camp was evacuated. Killing of at least 2,000 sick prisoners during the evacuation of the camp in early 1945. Shooting of a total of around 230 Jewish prisoners who had been transferred to KL Sachsenhausen during the evacuation of the Lieberose sub-camp. Several prisoners were shot during the evacuation march from KL Sachsenhausen towards Lübeck

Individual evidence

1. ^ Date of death according to Stephanie Bohra: Tatort Sachsenhausen: Prosecution of concentration camp crimes in the Federal Republic of Germany . Metropol Verlag, Berlin, 2019, ISBN 978-3863314606 , p. 530.
2. ^ ^{A b} Günter Morsch , Ralph Gabriel, Sachsenhausen Memorial and Museum: Murder and Mass Murder in the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp 1936-1945, Metropol, 2005, p. 133.
3. ↑ Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 3: Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald. CH Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-52963-1 , p. 89.
4. ↑ Wolfgang Benz, Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror. Sachsenhausen, beech forest. Volume 3, CH Beck, Munich 2006, p. 40.
5. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 261.
6. ↑ Hans Booms, Ulrich Enders, Konrad Reiser: The Cabinet Protocols of the Federal Government 1956 , Volume 9, Oldenbourg, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-486-56281-9 , pp. 123, 125.
7. ↑ Procedure serial number 497 , published in Justice and Nazi Crimes, Volume XVI on Justice and Nazi Crimes ( Memento of the original from May 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ^ Hermann Langbein : I m Namen des Deutschen Volkes , Cologne, Stuttgart, Zurich, 1963, p. 179.
9. ↑ Hans Booms, Ulrich Enders, Konrad Reiser: The Cabinet Protocols of the Federal Government 1956 , Volume 9, Oldenbourg, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-486-56281-9 , p. 125.