Hans Augustin (lawyer)

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Hans Augustin (born September 11, 1909 in Rastatt , † May 27, 1977 in Hanover ) was a German lawyer, deputy head of the Gestapo office in Kassel and district administrator at the time of National Socialism .

Life

Augustin, the son of a government inspector, graduated from the Realgymnasium in Potsdam in 1928 with the Abitur. He then completed a law degree at the University of Berlin until 1932 , which he completed with the second state examination in 1936, after his legal clerkship. After the seizure of power by the Nazis Augustin on 1 May 1933 member was NSDAP . From the summer of 1936 he worked as a government assessor at the Gestapo in Breslau . In February 1938 Augustin became deputy head of the Gestapo in Kassel . This function exercised in the meantime the Governmentappointed Augustin until April 1940. In December 1938 Augustin had applied to join the SS ; It is not known whether this application for admission was successful. From spring 1940 Augustin was deputy head of the Stapo in Stettin .

At the beginning of February 1941 Augustin moved to German-occupied Poland in the Lublin district of the Generalgouvernement . From the end of March 1941 Augustin headed the personnel office in the Lublin district office under the governor Ernst Zörner . From September 1941 he served as District Chief in Chelm , and then in April in the same capacity in the district Biłgoraj operates. "In Biłgoraj he carried out deportations of Jews ."

At the beginning of December 1942 Augustin was drafted into the Wehrmacht and at the beginning of May 1945 was taken prisoner by the Americans. After that he was interned in the UK . He was sentenced to one year in prison by the Benefeld-Bomlitz court on February 26, 1948; the sentence was considered served because of the internment period. During the denazification on November 25, 1949, he was classified as a follower with a five-year ban on promotion. From 1952 to 1955 Augustin worked as a lawyer in Langenhagen and then as a senior government councilor in the administrative office of Lower Saxony . A preliminary investigation initiated against him by the Hanover Public Prosecutor's Office was "out of pursuit" on July 1, 1975.

literature

  • Bogdan Musiał : German civil administration and persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-447-04208-7 ; 2nd, unv. Ed., Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-447-05063-2 , p. 393.
  • Gunnar Richter : The Breitenau labor education camp (1940–1945) - A contribution to the National Socialist camp system. Kassel 2004, inaugural dissertation in the social sciences department at the University of Kassel.
  • Markus Roth: Gentlemen. The German District Chiefs in Occupied Poland - Career Paths, Rule Practice and Post-History. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 9783835304772 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gunnar Richter: Das Arbeitsserziehungslager Breitenau (1940–1945) - A contribution to the National Socialist camp system. Kassel 2004, p. 51 f.
  2. ^ A b c Bogdan Musiał: German civil administration and persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement. Wiesbaden 1999, p. 380.
  3. ↑ Short biography with Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen. 2009, p. 458.
  4. ^ At Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen. 2009: "Decommissioned on January 6, 1975".
personal data
SURNAME Augustin, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, Gestapo employee and district administrator
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Rastatt
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1977
Place of death Hanover