Hans-Walter Zinser
Hans-Walter Zinser (born February 26, 1908 in Welzheim ; died July 11, 1972 ) was a German district administrator in German-occupied Poland at the time of National Socialism . In the districts of Krakow and Galicia, he served as District Chief in organizing the Holocaust involved. In 1953 he became a judge at the Federal Administrative Court in Berlin .
Life
Hans-Walter Zinser studied from 1926 to 1930 in Tübingen , Hamburg and Freiburg Law and received his doctorate in 1932. Dr. jur. He joined the SA in 1934 and was only able to join the NSDAP after the ban on membership was relaxed in 1937. On April 1, 1937, he became a councilor in the Württemberg Ministry of the Interior and, from July 1939, personal advisor to the National Socialist Interior Minister Jonathan Schmid .
With establishment of the General Government in Poland, he was from September 1939, first land commissioner in Brzozów and was on January 11, 1940 District Chief in the county Miechów in the district of Krakow , his district governors were there Otto guards and Curt Ludwig Ehrenreich of Burgdorff . Zinser moved to the Galicia district from August 1941 to February 1942 , his district governor there was Otto Wächter, initially to Rawa-Ruska , where the Belzec extermination camp was built on the border of the district from November 1941 , and from February 1942 to October 1942 as district chief to Sambor . In the village of Sambor, 6,000 Jews were crammed into a freight train under the eyes of the district chief on August 4, 1942, 120 Jews had already been shot in the raid. After working for the government of the General Government, he worked again from November 1, 1943 to autumn 1944 in the Kraków district as a district chief in the Dębica district .
Towards the end of the war in 1945 he was administrator of the district administrator in the Crailsheim district .
In the summer of 1945 he was interned for six weeks . In 1948, Zinser was denazified , the verdict is not known, he returned to the public service as an administrative judge in Stuttgart in 1949 and was appointed to the Federal Administrative Court in 1953.
As with a number of other district chiefs, it is documented that Zinser was informed in advance about the Jewish actions; Zinser was questioned on November 24, 1960, May 26, 1965 and June 30, 1965. The preliminary investigation initiated after 1959 because of his involvement in the Nazi crimes in occupied Poland was discontinued on January 18, 1968 at the Berlin public prosecutor's office.
literature
- Markus Roth: Gentlemen. The German District Chiefs in Occupied Poland - Career Paths, Rule Practice and Post-History. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0477-2 .
- Dieter Pohl : National Socialist Persecution of Jews in Eastern Galicia 1941–1944. Organization and execution of a state mass crime. Oldenbourg, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-486-56313-0 .
- Obituary by Hans-Walter Zinser. In: Public Administration . Journal of Public Law and Administrative Science, 1972, p. 560.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Short biography with Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen. Göttingen 2009, p. 512f.
- ^ Dieter Pohl: East Galicia. Munich 1997, p. 224.
- ^ Dieter Pohl: East Galicia. Munich 1997, pp. 209 and 285
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SURNAME | Zinser, Hans-Walter |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German administrative officer (NSDAP) and federal judge |
DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1908 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Welzheim |
DATE OF DEATH | July 11, 1972 |