Ernst Hartmann (SS member)

Ernst Hartmann (born May 10, 1897 in Barmen, Silesia; † February 3, 1945 in Czechoslovakia ) was a German SS and police leader , most recently with the rank of SS brigade leader and major general of the police .

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Hartmann joined the Prussian Army in 1914 , with which he participated in the First World War until 1918 . During the war he belonged to a railway company and later to the air corps . Shortly before the end of the war, he was taken prisoner by the British .

After his return from captivity, Hartmann worked as an engineer for an aircraft manufacturer before working as a flight instructor for the Chinese Air Force in China from 1925 to 1928 . From 1928 to 1930 he worked as an engineer in various European countries before he got a position at Junkers-Werke in 1930 , where he stayed until 1935.

Hartmann joined the NSDAP on November 1, 1929 ( membership number 160.298) and the SS on October 24, 1930 (SS number 8.982), in which he was assigned to the 21st SS standard. Hartmann left the SS at his own request on October 1, 1932, but rejoined it on April 20, 1937. From March to August 1939 he was employed in the staff of the SS Central Section. After being released on August 18, 1939 for alcoholism , he was re-admitted on October 1, 1939.

During the Second World War , Hartmann was an SS and Police Leader (SSPF) in a leading position in the execution of mass shootings in the German-occupied Soviet Union : from February to June 1943 he was SS and Police Leader in Police Regiment 2, then from July until October 1943 SSPF in Chernigov and from December 1943 to September 1944 SSPF with the rank of SS-Oberführer in Pripjet with headquarters in Minsk . In August 1944 he reached his highest rank with the promotion to SS-Brigadführer.

In September 1944 he was z. b. V. of the Higher SS and Police Leader Northeast. He died in combat operations in the closing stages of the war.

Hartmann had already been selected as one of 23 honorary members of the People's Court in 1934 .

Promotions

• April 20, 1937: SS-Standartenführer (resumption below this rank)
• January 30, 1942: SS-Oberführer
• August 1, 1944: SS brigade leader and major general of the police

literature

• Tuviah Friedman : The SS and Police Leader in the Soviet Union 1941–1944 , Institute of Documentation in Israel, 2002, passim. (Collection of facsimiles of documents on Hartmann)
• Karl Sauer: The crimes of the Waffen SS. A documentation , 1977, p. 75.

Web links

• Literature about Ernst Hartmann in the catalog of the German National Library