Hans-Herbert Dengler

Hans-Herbert Dengler (born July 28, 1905 in Kiel , † 1982 in Karlsruhe ) was a German administrative lawyer at district, state and national level.

Life

After studying law , Dengler was appointed court assessor in 1931. From April to September 1932 he worked for the “Deutsche Erde” settlement company in Berlin . On November 1, 1931, Dengler joined the NSDAP ( membership number 690.640) and the SS (SS number 20.012). From November 1932 to May 1933 he worked full-time for the SS in Neuruppin . On January 30, 1937, he was appointed SS-Sturmführer and on September 10th, 1939 SS-Obersturmführer.

In June 1933 Dengler was transferred to the Prussian general administration at the district office in Minden , where he was appointed government assessor. In January 1934 Dengler was assigned to the organizational department of the Secret State Police Office (Gestapa). From there, in March / April 1934, he was temporarily recalled as head of the local Stapo post in Stettin in order to uncover the grievances in the Bredow concentration camp . Probably mainly because of conflicts with Kurt Daluege , he was made available to the Prussian Ministry of the Interior on May 1, 1934 and transferred to the Bad Liebenwerda district office . In the following years he worked in a variety of administrative positions: In August 1934, Dengler's appointment as provisional mayor of Wittenberg followed . In 1938 he was entrusted with the office of the district administrator in the Schweinitz district , then in 1942 he became government director and in 1943 department head at the Reichsstatthalter in Salzburg .

Graf characterizes Dengler as an "interesting example of an old fighter in the Gestapa under Diels , who as such was called upon to undertake explicit tasks of trust, but was then carried away by Diel's fall and finally made a respectable career as a senior civil servant in the general administration."

After the end of the Second World War , Dengler was interned until 1947. In 1947 and 1948 he was again in contact with Heinrich Schnitzler and Diels, from whom he was used as a witness for his memoirs - concerning the situation in Stettin in 1934.

literature

• Christoph Graf : Political police between democracy and dictatorship. The development of the Prussian political police from the state security organ to the secret state police office of the Third Reich (= individual publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin. Vol. 36). Colloquium, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-7678-0585-5 (At the same time: Habilitation thesis. University of Bern, 1980).