Hanns Bobermin

Hanns Bobermin during the Nuremberg Trials . Photo taken in January 1947.

Johannes Karl Bernhard Bobermin , called Hanns Bobermin (born October 1, 1903 in Boxhagen , † February 1960 in Stuttgart ) was a German economist, SS leader and convicted war criminal of the Nuremberg trials .

Life

Bobermin, son of a businessman, studied law , political science and economics at the University of Berlin and the University of Rostock after graduating from high school in 1923 . Bobermin completed his studies in December 1926 with a degree in economics. He then worked as a clerk in the commercial area for several companies. Bobermin received his doctorate in 1930 with the dissertation The Rationalization of the Commercial Office in Large Industrial Companies and its Effect on Employees as Dr. rer. pole. From January 1931 Bobermin was the managing director of the Reichsbund deutscher Volkswirt. He then took on the same function in December 1933 at the German Municipal Association and from March 1938 at Deutsche Städtereklame GmbH. Bobermin married Käthe Ernst in September 1933.

Bobermin became a member of the NSDAP at the beginning of May 1933 ( membership number 2.633.234) and from the end of September 1933 belonged to the SS (SS number 139.845). From the spring of 1933 Bobermin belonged to SS intelligence groups and storms. In the SS, Bobermin reached the rank of SS-Obersturmbannführer of the Reserve ( Waffen-SS ) in November 1943 .

After the outbreak of World War II , Bobermin was employed in Frankfurt am Main for the War Economics Office. From there he was transferred to the main office for administration and economics , where he rose to head of department III A 4 (head office of the general trustee for the building material facilities in the east area). From the beginning of February 1942 Bobermin continued this activity in the newly established SS Economic and Administrative Main Office as head of Office W II (building materials plant and cement factories) in Office Group W until the end of March 1944. Then Bobermin became an SS economist in Hungary with the local Higher SS and Police Leader Otto Winkelmann .

After the end of the war

After his arrest, Bobermin was indicted in the Economic and Administrative Main Office of the SS with 17 other accused from January 13, 1947 before the United States Military Tribunal II. As head of Office W II in the WVHA, Bobermin was accused of having made a significant contribution to the organization and expansion of the concentration camp system through his function and thereby made the concentration camp crimes possible. Bobermin has been found guilty of war crimes , crimes against humanity and membership in criminal organizations. Bobermin was sentenced to twenty years in prison on November 3, 1947, the sentence was later reduced to fifteen years. After serving a partial sentence, he was released from the Landsberg War Crimes Prison at the beginning of February 1951 . Bobermin was then employed in a managerial position at companies in southern Germany and later lived in Stuttgart. The Stuttgarter Zeitung reported on the death of Bobermin on February 9, 1960.

literature

Walter Naasner (Hrsg.): SS-Wirtschaft und SS-Verwaltung - The SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt and the economic ventures under its supervision , Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1998, publications of the Federal Archives: 45a, ISBN 3-7700-1603-3 .
Jan Erik Schulte : Forced Labor and Extermination: The Economic Empire of the SS. Oswald Pohl and the SS Economic Administration Main Office 1933-1945. Paderborn 2001, ISBN 3-506-78245-2 .
Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
Records of the United States Nuremberg War Crimes Trials , Vol. V. United States Government Printing Office , District of Columbia 1950. (Volume 5 of the " Green Series ")

Web links

Literature by and about Hanns Bobermin in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Walter Naasner (Ed.): SS-Wirtschaft und SS-Verwaltung , Düsseldorf 1998, p. 327f.
↑ see also entry by Hanns Bobermin in the Rostocker matriculation portal , WS 1925/26, no.118
^ Records of the United States Nuremberg War Crimes Trials , Vol. V. District of Columbia 1950, pp. 1056ff.
^ Jan Erik Schulte: Forced Labor and Destruction: The Economic Empire of the SS. Oswald Pohl and the SS Economic Administration Main Office 1933-1945. Paderborn 2001, p. 433.
^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 56.
^ Jan Erik Schulte: Forced Labor and Destruction: The Economic Empire of the SS. Oswald Pohl and the SS Economic Administration Main Office 1933-1945. Paderborn 2001, p. 463.

personal data
SURNAME	Bobermin, Hanns
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bobermin, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German economist and convicted war criminal
DATE OF BIRTH	October 1, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	Boxhagen
DATE OF DEATH	February 1960
Place of death	Stuttgart

[Naasner327f-1] Walter Naasner (Ed.): SS-Wirtschaft und SS-Verwaltung , Düsseldorf 1998, p. 327f.

[2] see also entry by Hanns Bobermin in the Rostocker matriculation portal , WS 1925/26, no.118

[3] Records of the United States Nuremberg War Crimes Trials , Vol. V. District of Columbia 1950, pp. 1056ff.

[Schulte433-4] Jan Erik Schulte: Forced Labor and Destruction: The Economic Empire of the SS. Oswald Pohl and the SS Economic Administration Main Office 1933-1945. Paderborn 2001, p. 433.

[Klee56-5] Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 56.

[Schulte463-6] Jan Erik Schulte: Forced Labor and Destruction: The Economic Empire of the SS. Oswald Pohl and the SS Economic Administration Main Office 1933-1945. Paderborn 2001, p. 463.