Hans-Joachim Krieger

Hans-Joachim "Jochen" Krieger (born February 1, 1914 in Charlottenburg ; † unknown) was a German SS functionary. He was a close associate of Reinhard Heydrich in the early phase of the security service of the SS (SD).

Life

Krieger was born as the son of Lieutenant Erhard Hilmar Krieger (born July 11, 1885 in Irmlau near Mitau, Kurland; † June 29, 1932 in Kolberg) and his wife Martha, née. Rinow, born. During the First World War , the father achieved the rank of captain.

From 1920 to 1923, Krieger was privately tutored. From 1923 to 1932 he then attended the Kolberger Realgymnasium, from which he graduated on March 1, 1932. He then studied law and political science in Munich (four semesters) and in Berlin (three semesters) from the summer semester of 1932 to the winter semester of 1935/1936 .

Since Krieger's father was active in the völkisch movement and in the NSDAP since the late 1920s, Krieger was given to the Hitler Youth (HJ) in Kolberg on March 1, 1929 , of which he was a member until November 9, 1931. On November 9, 1931, he was transferred to the SS (SS no. 31.090). In this he belonged temporarily to the storm 1 / I / 39. He joined the NSDAP on June 1, 1932 ( membership number 974.606).

Through his father, who held a leading position in the SS from 1930 (he had been the leader of the 39th SS Standard since 1931), Krieger came into contact with Reinhard Heydrich, the chief of the Security Service (SD), the SS intelligence service: Krieger senior met Heydrich at a meeting of the SS leaders and asked him to take care of his son, who was leaving his parents' house at the time and moving to Munich to study - where the first office of the SS security service headed by Heydrich was located . After he had changed to the Munich SS Sturm 3 / I / 1 in July 1932, he was taken over to the SD on November 1, 1932.

As a result, Heydrich took care of the younger warrior and made him one of his first employees in the SD, where he worked as Heydrich's assistant in the SD central office in Munich from 1932 to 1933.

On December 12, 1935, Krieger passed the first state examination in law (trainee examination) at the Berlin Higher Regional Court . On March 1, 1936, he was appointed court trainee. After he had changed from the judicial service to the internal administration of the government in Szczecin in the same year , he was appointed a government trainee on October 6, 1936 at the request of the Szczecin government.

From October 10, 1936 to October 24, 1938, Krieger belonged to the 14th Infantry Regiment 4 of the Wehrmacht in Kolberg, from which he resigned as a sergeant in the reserve. In the following years he continued his civil servant training at the district office in Bergen on Rügen. On the side, he was in charge of the Stralsund branch of the SD upper section north on Rügen.

From May 15 to June 11, 1939, Krieger completed a military exercise and was then again with the Wehrmacht from August 26, 1939 to October 13, 1940. During the beginning of the Second World War he took part in the invasion of Poland and in the western campaign. Subsequently, at the request of the district president in Stettin, he was given leave of absence from the military from December 1, 1940 to March 31, 1941 in order to continue his training as a government trainee for internal administration.

With effect from May 1, 1941, Krieger was transferred to the government president in Liegnitz. After taking the assessor exam, which he passed on September 22, 1941 with the rating "commendable", he was transferred to the senior executive committee in Breslau as a government assessor. There he worked until 1943 as a personal advisor to the Gauleiter and Upper President of Lower Silesia, Karl Hanke . In addition, he volunteered to support the work of the SD leadership section in Breslau. During his time in Breslau, he was also appointed to the government council with effect from August 1, 1942. In September 1943, Krieger was appointed to run the district administration in Glogau.

In 1944, Krieger achieved the rank of Sturmbannführer in the SS. In his assessment from this time it was said that he was an "old, tried and tested National Socialist" and that he had "been working very actively for the SD since he came to power ".

In May 1944, Krieger was drafted into the Waffen-SS for military service. Nothing more is known about his fate.

family

Krieger married on December 23, 1939 with the approval of the Race and Settlement Main Office of the SS Herta Lina Kuntz (born September 25, 1919 in Höchst). The marriage resulted in a son (* 1941) and a daughter (* 1944).

Promotions

• October 5, 1933: SS-Unterscharführer
• November 9, 1933: SS squad leader
• February 15, 1934: SS Oberscharführer
• November 9, 1934: SS-Hauptscharführer
• November 9, 1936: SS Untersturmführer
• April 20, 1939: SS-Obersturmführer
• April 20, 1942: SS-Hauptsturmführer
• June 21, 1944: SS-Sturmbannführer

estate

The Federal Archives have received personal documents on Krieger: The former BDC's holdings contain an RS file (microfilm D 294, images 2129-2310) and an SSO file on him. There is also an SSO file on his father (ibid., Images 806–827).

Fonts

• Party and community. According to the German municipal code of January 30, 1935 , Kolberg 1936. (Dissertation)

literature

• Shlomo Aronson : Shlomo Aronson: Heydrich and the beginnings of the SD and the Gestapo. 1931-1935 , Berlin 1967.

Web links

• Aronson collection at the Institute for Contemporary History with documents on Hans-Joachim Krieger

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Erhard Krieger was a member of the NSDAP (membership number 113.500) and the SS (SS number 2.589). On June 16, 1930, Himmler appointed him SS troop leader of the Kolberg SS troop in SS-Sturm 68 with effect from May 15, 1930. On August 10, 1931, Himmler appointed Krieger as SS-Sturmführer effective August 1, 1931, and on the same day entrusted him with the administration of the 39th SS standard. On December 21, 1931, Himmler appointed him SS-Standartenführer with effect from December 6, 1931, and on the same day commissioned him to lead the 39th SS Standard.