Fritz Hahn (SA member)

Friedrich Eugen Hahn (born January 11, 1907 in Berlin ; † unknown, after 1966) was a German SA leader .

Live and act

Youth and education

Fritz Hahn was the son of Major Eugen Hahn. In his youth he attended a secondary school, where he acquired the primary school leaving certificate. After attending school, Hahn completed training in banking. From April 5, 1923, he was employed as a bank clerk at Commerzbank in Berlin.

Political activities in the Weimar Republic

In the years after the First World War , Hahn was a member of various right-wing nationalist military associations in which he experienced a lasting paramilitary character: from 1919 to 1920 he was a member of the German National Youth Association , then from June 2, 1922, he was a member of the German National Protection and Defense Association ; from July to August 1923 he belonged to a replacement formation of the Black Reichswehr in Fort Hahneberg , while from the beginning of 1923 to mid-1924 he was active in the national military association of Ulrich von Hutten's gymnastics club; in the period from January to August 1924 Hahn was active in the Bismarck Order.

From mid-1924 to the beginning of 1926 Hahn was on duty in the SA, which was banned after the Hitler putsch , and in its Berlin section Frontbann-Nord, most recently in the position of company commander. In later years, from January 1, 1928, he was also a member of the German National Handicrafts Association .

At the beginning of 1926, Hahn and the majority of the Berlin Frontbann people joined the SA, which was first established in Berlin at the time, and was one of the founding members. His official date of entry into the SA was recorded as February 1, 1926. He joined the NSDAP on September 23, 1926.

On February 1, 1928, Hahn was appointed leader of the Charlottenburger SA with the rank of SA storm leader by Gau-SA leader order , which at that time was summarized in storm 33. Together with his Adlatus Hans Maikowski , Hahn succeeded in expanding the Charlottenburg SA to a large extent in the following years: From 20 members in 1928, the number of Charlottenburg SA members rose to over 300 by 1931. Hahn enjoyed among his people after the judgment von Reichard had great authority due to his unusually high education and professional position as well as his close relationship corps with the NSDAP and SA. Hahn established the organizational center of the storm in the Sturmlokalen Zur Altstadt in Hebbelstrasse, the inn owned by Krösler on Röntgenstrasse and in an SA home on Tegeler Weg. The extremely violent and brutal approach that Hahn's SA men displayed during their operations earned the Charlottenburg storm the nickname “Murder Storm” in Berlin's population and press from 1931 onwards, and also made Hahn a notorious figure in the capital. Because of his distinctive hair color, he was often called "The Red Rooster" by political opponents.

In the late 1920s and early 1930s Hahn was one of the most important figures of the Nazi movement in Berlin: He was in close contact with Kurt Daluege - who described him as "one of my oldest and best SA leaders" - and Joseph Goebbels . At least once he was personally visited by Adolf Hitler for a secret meeting.

As an energetic activist, Hahn frequently cited the attacks by his SA men on those with different political views himself: the attacks of Storm 33 on the social democratic brothers Erich and Robert Riemenschneider on January 1, 1931, which Hahn commanded, both with knife stabs and blows, caused a stir (Hahn hit the men with a heavy oak walking stick) were seriously injured, as well as the attack on the communist Otto Grüneberg , who - allegedly by Hahn himself - was shot on February 1, 1931. After Hahn was briefly taken into custody on February 2, 1931 because of the Riemenschneider case for breach of the peace, he went underground after his release at the end of February 1931. While still in custody, he was appointed Sturmbannführer of Sturmbannes II / 1 on February 10, 1931.

After taking part in the suppression of the Stennes revolt in April 1931 , Hahn fled to the Netherlands . When a jury trial was opened in August 1931 because of the attack on the Riemenschneider brothers, the trial against Hahn was separated from the trial due to its undetectability. Hahn remained on the run from June 1931 until the Christmas amnesty of December 1932, with which the proceedings against him were put down.

time of the nationalsocialism

After the National Socialists came to power , Hahn, who lived “by and for the SA” according to Sven Reichardt's judgment , was promoted to SA Standartenführer on November 9, 1933 . After the Röhm affair in the summer of 1934, in August 1934 he was entrusted with the command of SA Standard 1 ("Hans Eberhard Maikowski Standard 1").

At the turn of the year 1936/37 Hahn was relieved of his post due to an embezzlement and embezzlement affair and in 1938 excluded from the SA by a judgment of the SA disciplinary court. The background was that the procurement officer for his standard had illegally kept a black cash register and channeled standard money into his own pocket. Hahn was credited with not knowing this - which is why he was allowed to stay in the NSDAP - but he was reproached for not having exercised sufficient thoroughness in the supervision of his subordinate and thus not having fulfilled his duty of care.

post war period

After the Second World War, Hahn was temporarily held in internment camps in Darmstadt and Recklinghausen. He then worked as a construction worker in Hildesheim and a peat worker in Sandbostel. In 1949 he worked as a construction worker in Hamburg and from 1950 he was a textile merchant.

In 1966 Hahn was heard as a witness by the Berlin public prosecutor's office in the proceedings to investigate the murder of Erik Jan Hanussen and Hans Maikowski in 1933.

literature

• Knut Bergbauer, Sabine Fröhlich, Stefanie Schüler-Springorum : Monument figure. Biographical approach to Hans Litten , Wallstein, Göttingen 2008. ISBN 978-3835302686
• Sven Reichardt : The example of Friedrich Eugen Hahn , in: Ders .: Faschistische Kampfbünde. Violence and Community in Italian Squadrism and in the German SA , 2009, pp. 490–493.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stephan Brandt: The Charlottenburger Altstadt , Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2011. ISBN 978-3-86680-861-4 . Pp. 99 and 127.