Günter Kuhl

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Günter Kuhl (born December 14, 1907 in Barmen ; † December 9, 1948 in Hameln ) was a German lawyer, SS-Obersturmbannführer and senior Gestapo employee .

biography

Günter Kuhl was the son of the high school teacher Eduard Kuhl and his wife Paula, née Ispert. He grew up in an authoritarian family. After high school in 1928 forced him to his father, law to study what the son at the Universities of Freiburg and Bonn did. During his studies he became a member of the Alemannia Freiburg fraternity in the summer semester of 1928 . He passed his first state examination in law in October 1932 at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court . With the thesis "The ratio of culpability, responsibility and bad faith of minors on the basis of § 828 BGB" was he in 1935 in Freiburg to Dr. jur. PhD. After completing his legal traineeship , he passed the second state examination in 1937 and was then employed as a judge at the Wuppertal-Barmen district court. Because Kuhl the exam only with the relatively poor grade enough had passed, his career prospects looked at following up the usual path from rather poor. So he turned around and finally came to the Gestapo.

Kuhl had already joined the NSDAP ( membership number 1.947.319) after the handover of power to the National Socialists in early May 1933 and the SA in the same year . From the SA he switched to the SS in 1938 (SS no. 308.005). In 1938 at the latest, Kuhl began working as a government assessor for the Gestapo in Hamburg . In July 1938 he took over the management of the Hamburg State Police Station from Bruno Linienbach , until Heinrich Seetzen succeeded him in this position in 1940 . During his time in Hamburg in 1939 he married his wife, who came from a merchant family. In October 1942 he was transferred to the Braunschweig state police station , which he officially headed as Horst Freytag's successor from the beginning of January 1943, initially as a councilor and from 1944 as a senior councilor until the end of the war. Within the SS he rose to SS-Obersturmbannführer in November 1944.

After the end of the Second World War , Kuhl tried in vain to evade Allied prosecution by fleeing, but quickly became a prisoner of war and was imprisoned in Hameln penitentiary , where a British military tribunal a . a. accused of war crimes in the Hallendorf labor education camp . In the camp run by the Gestapo there were forced laborers who had to work for the Reichswerke Hermann Göring in Salzgitter . About 3,000 of these workers died or were murdered. As head of the Gestapo in Braunschweig, Kuhl was involved in at least some of these deaths or was present at shootings.

The military court sentenced Günter Kuhl to death. On December 9, 1948, the sentence was carried out in Hamelin prison.

Coming up with the father's deeds through the son

Günter Kuhl's only child, Dirk Kuhl , was born in Hamburg in 1940. It was not until the age of 18 that the son learned the truth about the father's deeds and circumstances of death. Until then, his mother had led him to believe that his father had “died of an illness in a British prisoner of war” and was otherwise “charming and a good dancer” and had “done nothing wrong”.

Since then, Dirk Kuhl has made it his business to give public lectures on his family history , his father's deeds, his mother's repression and how he dealt with and how he coped with his own family history. B. in front of young people, to give interviews and to take part in (international) discussion groups.

literature

  • Gerhard Wysocki: The Secret State Police in Braunschweig. Police law and police practice under National Socialism. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 1997, ISBN 3-593-35835-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Waltraud Sennebogen: Dealing with the "great silence". In: erinnerungsparlament.de. February 27, 2007, accessed January 14, 2020 .
  2. ^ Alfred Wirth: (Ed.): History of the Freiburg Burschenschaft Alemannia. 1860-1935. Freiburg / Breisgau 1935, p. 290 No. 262.
  3. ^ Günter Kuhl: The relationship between fault, responsibility and bad faith of minors on the basis of § 828 BGB. Freiburg i. B., Diss. 1935. ( DNB 570812739 )
  4. ^ Gerhard Wysocki: The Secret State Police in the state of Braunschweig. Police law and police practice under National Socialism. , Frankfurt / M. 1997, p. 75.
  5. ^ Herbert Diercks : Documentation town house. The Hamburg police under National Socialism. Texts, photos, documents , Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial , Hamburg 2012, p. 34.
  6. ↑ Łukasz Najbarowski, Waldemar "Scypion" Sadaj: Numery członków SS od 290 000 do 290 999. In: dws-xip.pl. April 23, 2013, accessed January 14, 2020 (Polish).
  7. ^ Gudrun Fiedler , Hans-Ulrich Ludewig : Forced Labor and War Economy in the State of Braunschweig 1939–1945. In: Sources and research on the Braunschweig national history. No. 39, Appelhans, Braunschweig 2003, ISBN 3-930-29278-5 , p. 99.
  8. ^ Gerd Wysocki: Forced labor in the steel company: Salzgitter and the Reichswerke "Hermann Göring" 1937–1945. Magni-Buchladen, Braunschweig 1982, p. 133.
  9. ↑ Martin Kröger: No grace for late birth. In: Jungle World . November 10, 2004, accessed January 4, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Dirk Kuhl: “It's not easy as a child of the perpetrator!” In: waterboelles.de. May 23, 2019, accessed January 14, 2020 .
  11. ^ The son of a Gestapo officer speaks to students in Kempten. In: all-in.de . October 4, 2012, accessed January 14, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Philipp Gessler: victims are children, perpetrators kids and family heritage. In: taz . On the weekend . November 13, 2004, p. 24 , accessed January 14, 2020 .
  13. ↑ EMA student Dirk Kuhl, son of a Nazi perpetrator. In: waterboelles.de. May 17, 2019, accessed January 14, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kuhl, Günter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kuhl, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, SS-Obersturmbannführer and Gestapo agency manager
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Barmen
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1948
Place of death Hamelin