Erich Hahnenbruch

Erich Hahnenbruch as a witness at the Nuremberg trials .

Erich Hahnenbruch (born November 5, 1902 , † January 22, 1965) was a German police officer and SS leader.

Live and act

In the 1930s, Hahnenbruch joined the Schutzstaffel (SS), in which he became an employee of the security service of the SS (SD). In this capacity he was accepted as a civil servant in the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA) around 1940 , where he was initially employed as an assistant in the rank of government assistant in Section IV B 2 (Protestant Church Affairs).

In February 1943, Hahn break took over as successor to Roth the line of Division IV B 2, in which he Protestantism in the Nazi state was responsible for the management and supervision of police control and which he described as Regierungsrat led to the end of the war.

In the SS, Hahnenbruch, who was also a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 272,602), achieved the rank of SS-Obersturmbannführer .

literature

• John S. Conway: The Nazi Persecution of the Churches, 1933-1945 , 1997.
• Michel Wildt: Generation of the Unconditional. The leadership corps of the Reich Security Main Office. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-930908-75-1 . (2nd edition 2013 ibid., ISBN 978-3-930908-87-5 ).