Hans-Rupert Villechner

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Hans-Rupert Villechner (born March 6, 1915 in Munich ; died unknown) was a German functionary of the NSDAP .

Life

Hans-Rupert Villechner was the ninth son of a Munich teacher. His father died when he was four years old. For economic reasons, he had to break off the middle school and completed a commercial apprenticeship. In 1929 he joined the Hitler Youth . In the Great Depression , he was unemployed in 1933 and was named after the transfer of power to the Nazis member of the garrisoned SS (membership number 142145). He left the SS service in 1935 and found employment in various party offices of the NSDAP (membership number 1.509.064). He married in 1937 and had four children. From 1937 he received training as a manager at a NS-Ordensburg . As a war volunteer he became a soldier and was seriously wounded in the western campaign in 1940 . He also took part in the war against the Soviet Union, then retired from the Wehrmacht for health reasons and was appointed district leader of the NSDAP in Freising by Gauleiter Paul Giesler in 1942 . This made him the youngest district leader in the German Reich. On November 9, 1943, he was promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer .

On June 13, 1944, an American bomber formation launched an air raid on the BMW plant in Milbertshofen . An airplane of the type B24-Liberator was shot down and nine men from the crew were able to save themselves by jumping off at Sillertshausen . The district leader and other local officials rushed to the plane wreck. Three of the airmen were murdered after they were captured. Accused accomplices were later acquitted in a trial before an American military court in Dachau because of the uncertain evidence, while the military court imposed the death penalty in other provable cases, which were also carried out.

At the end of 1944, a foreign worker was murdered in which Villechner was present. Because of the criminal investigation, he was delegated by Gauleiter Giesler to the fortress building in occupied Italy. However, he was arrested there by the Reich Criminal Police Office and taken into custody in Berlin. He was removed from his office as district leader by an NSDAP party court and punished with a "party reprimand", the official investigations were put down on his behalf. Villechner was drafted again as a soldier.

At the end of the war, Villechner was taken prisoner by the US as a military sergeant in the Wehrmacht, from which he was released in autumn 1945 for faking a false identity. Since he was on the wanted list in the American occupation zone , he and his family had to make their way incognito for the next five years in the Soviet Zone and in the British zone , where he was in Oldenburg (Oldb) .

In 1951 he surrendered to the authorities. He was charged with aiding and abetting the murder of the foreign worker and aiding and abetting two of the air murders . The District Court of Munich II considered his complicity in one of the aviation murders proven and sentenced him to three years in prison for aiding and abetting manslaughter. In the appeal , the Federal Court of Justice overturned the judgment on May 5, 1953, and Villechner was acquitted by the Regional Court on February 11, 1954 , despite continuing urgent suspicion of a lack of evidence .

In April 1954 he was classified as "incriminated" by the Munich Spruchkammer . He was able to get enough Persilscheine for the proceedings before the Munich Appeals Chamber , while the willingness of witnesses to testify suffered from the lack of interest of the population. It was therefore denazified in 1955 as "less polluted" .

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  1. ↑ Judgment 1954, p. 263
  2. ↑ Barbara Fait: Die Kreisleiter der NSDAP , 1988, pp. 232-235
personal data
SURNAME Villechner, Hans-Rupert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German functionary of the NSDAP
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century