Hans-Joachim Böhme (SS member)

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Hans-Joachim Böhme (born January 10, 1909 in Magdeburg , † May 31, 1968 in Karlsruhe ) was a German government councilor and SS standard leader . During the Second World War he was involved in the mass murder of the Jews of the Baltic States in Lithuania, first as the commander of the Tilsit Task Force and then of the Task Force 3 and as the commander of the Security Police and the SD .

Before 1945

Born in Magdeburg as the son of a high school principal, Böhme studied law at the universities of Halle and Rostock from 1928 . In February 1932 he passed the first state examination and in November 1936 the second. Since his exam grade was only "sufficient", he did not immediately succeed in finding employment in the civil service.

On May 1, 1933 , he joined the NSDAP (membership number 2,316,680). He became a member of the general SS (membership number 151.121) on November 1, 1933. In 1937 he resigned from the Evangelical Church. After a renewed application to the Prussian Ministry of the Interior, he was assigned to the Gestapo in Kiel for training in October 1938 . He worked there until October 1940 and was appointed government assessor and SS-Hauptsturmführer .

From October 1940 Böhme was appointed government councilor, SS-Sturmbannführer and head of the state police station in Tilsit . Immediately after the beginning of the war against the Soviet Union , Böhme took a leading role in the Gargždai (Gardsen) massacre , for which the Tilsit task force was set up. On June 24, 1941, 201 residents, mostly Jewish, were shot near this border town. According to Boehme's later testimony in front of the court, this was done on the instructions of the commanding officer of Einsatzgruppe A Stahlecker and the Reich Main Security Office on June 22, 1941, whereas, according to a report by the Stapo office in Tilsit of July 1, 1941, on June 24, Stahlecker “basically gave his consent explained the purges near the German border ”. Böhme then led the (ad hoc) Tilsit task force, which he said had murdered around 6,000 people in the German-Lithuanian border area by October 1941.

From October 1943 he was commander of the security police and the SD (KdS) in Rowno and then in Zhitomir . In May 1944 he took over the command of Einsatzkommando 3 . At the turn of the year 1944/1945 he was transferred to the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) in Berlin.

After 1945

After the war, Böhme made his way to Reinstorf Kreis Lüneburg , where he stayed as an agricultural worker and pretended to be a soldier who had escaped from captivity. He stayed there until after the currency reform . From October 1948 to 1951 he worked as a tax advisor in Karlsruhe and from January 1, 1952 until his arrest at Bausparkasse Badenia in Karlsruhe as a business lawyer.

In his registration form for denazification dated September 30, 1948, he falsely pretended to have a doctorate in law, withheld his previous membership in the NSDAP, his work with the Gestapo and also made other false statements, so that on October 30, 1948 he was released from the Spruchkammer Karlsruhe was classified as "not affected by the law". In December 1950, Böhme married in Karlsruhe, also wrongly using a doctorate.

Böhme was arrested on August 23, 1956. Immediately after his arrest he wanted to throw himself out of the corridor window of the administration building of his place of work in Karlsruhe. As the main defendant in the Ulm Einsatzgruppen trial , he received a prison sentence of fifteen years for joint aiding and abetting in joint murder in 3907 cases . He was released from prison in May 1968 after a heart attack and died the same month in a Karlsruhe hospital.

literature

  • Michael Wildt : Generation of the Unconditional - The Leadership Corps of the Reich Security Main Office. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-930908-75-1 .
  • Helmut Krausnick , Hans-Heinrich Wilhelm: The troop of the Weltanschauung war. The Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police and SD 1938–1942. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-421-01987-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ [1] Development information from the process documents
  2. ↑ See the entry of Hans-Joachim Böhme's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ↑ Jürgen Matthäus : Beyond the border . In: Journal of History . tape 44 , no. 2 . Metropol, 1996, ISSN  0044-2828 , p. 103-105 .
  4. ↑ Sabrina Müller: The murderers are among us: The Ulm task force process 1958. Ed .: House of History Baden-Württemberg and Town House Ulm. House of History Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-933726-27-8 , p. 71.
personal data
SURNAME Boehme, Hans-Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS standard leader and commander of the security police
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1968
Place of death Karlsruhe