Claus Hans

Claus Hans

Claus Hans (born June 23, 1900 in Tönning ; † May 17, 1977 in Flensburg ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

Live and act

After attending elementary school (1907 to 1913), the middle school in Tönning (1913 to 1916) and the upper secondary school in Heide (1917 to 1918), which he completed with the upper secondary qualification, Claus Hans completed a bank apprenticeship from 1917 to 1919. In between he was a member of the Potsdam Landsturm Regiment from September to December 1918. After the war, Hans worked as a bank clerk in Lübeck, Nuremberg and Berlin. In 1925 he married. From 1925 to 1932 he was managing director of the Seeth - Drage credit union .

In August 1927 Hans joined the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP, membership number 65188) that was until October 1932 local Nazi group leader for Seeth-Drage and performed as Gauredner for the party on. From 1929 to 1932 Hans was a member of the district council in the Schleswig district . From October 1932 to 1945 he was NSDAP district leader for the Flensburg district . In the Reichstag election of July 1932 , Hans entered the parliament of the Weimar Republic as a candidate for the NSDAP for constituency 13 (Schleswig-Holstein) . After his mandate was confirmed in the elections of November 1932 and March 1933 , he was a member of the German parliament for almost a year and a half until November 1933. One of the important parliamentary events in which Hans was involved was the passing of the Enabling Act in March 1933, which was also passed with Hans' vote, among other things.

After the National Socialist " seizure of power ", Hans served as deputy district administrator from October 1933; then from May 1934 to November 1937 as district administrator for the district of Flensburg. Peter Jensen Ausacker described Hans after the war as an "active Nazi of the worst kind" and the "evil spirit of the [Flensburg] district". He excelled, among other things, by aggressive agitation against Polish workers in his area of ​​responsibility and in favor of the war. In the SA from November 1943 Hans was Standartenführer in the Nordmark group.

After the war, Hans was arrested and held in custody at least until the end of 1949. Letters received to Hans 'lawyer, in which Flensburg citizens express their will to stand up for Hans' pardon, suggest that his person remained popular in parts of the Flensburg population in the early post-war period.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lilla, extras , p. 210.
2. ↑ Claus Olsen: "Special treatment" in the village. Executions of Polish prisoners of war in the Flensburg area. In: Informations zur Schleswig-Holsteinische Zeitgeschichte, October 1999, issue 36, pp. 39–70, here p. 59. (Online versions at Akens and on the author's website ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2007 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 note. ). 
3. ↑ Bundesarchiv Koblenz Z 42 III, No. 36665a, Appendix booklet, p. 11f.

literature

• Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .

Web links

• Claus Hans in the database of members of the Reichstag