Hans Bremer (police officer)

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Hans Bremer (* 1906 in Hannover ) was a German police and Gestapo - Officials .

Life

Hans Bremer, born in Hanover in 1906 during the German Empire , joined the Hanoverian police in 1928 during the Weimar Republic . After the National Socialists seized power in 1937, he was transferred to the Gestapo at his own request. From September 1941 he worked there in the so-called " Judenreferat ". Together with Friedrich Wilhelm Nonne , he committed numerous serious abuse and was therefore particularly feared by the Hanoverian Jews.

Similar to Christian Heinrichsmeier before them , Bremer and Nun mostly suddenly and unannouncedly went to the Israelite Horticultural School in Ahlem , where the Hanoverian Jews were deported from autumn 1941 on the orders of the Reich Security Main Office to be deported from there to the extermination camps . The two Gestapo officials feared in particular because of their "brutal riots in the [Hanoverian] Jewish houses " demanded in Ahlem "their share" in the products and fruits of the horticultural school. "

During the Second World War , Bremer was deployed on the Eastern Front from December 1942 .

In the post-war period , the remaining Jewish community in Hanover “filed criminal charges against known criminals of the Nazi regime” and also took part in the trials of the Hanover Public Prosecutor's Office . Hans Bremer was still under the British military government in 1948 by the Circuit Court Hannover after the Control Council Law no. 10 for crimes against humanity to 10 years in prison sentenced to 5 years and honor loss of rights . However, after only 5 years in prison, he was released in 1952 on 4 years probation .

Archival material

Archives from and about Hans Bremer can be found, for example

  • as a “letter to the Hanover Jewish community” dated June 30, 1947 in the Bremer file of the public prosecutor's office at the Hanover regional court ; in the main state archive Hanover , archive signature HStA Nds. 721 Hann. Acc. 61/81, No. 14, sheet 2

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hartmut Schmidt: Between Riga and Locarno. Report on Hilde Schneider, Christian of Jewish origin, deaconess, ghetto and concentration camp prisoner, prison pastor , 2nd edition, with an afterword by Margot Käßmann , Berlin: Wichern-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 978-3-88981-127-1 , P. 283; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Ruth Herskovits-Gutmann: Emigration not possible for the time being. The history of the Herskovits family from Hanover , edited, translated and commented by Bernhard Strebel, Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag, 2002, ISBN 978-3-89244-507-4 and ISBN 3-89244-507-9 , pp. 98, 116 , especially pp. 256, 260; limited preview in Google Book search
  3. ↑ Peter Schulze : Deportations von Juden , in: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 124
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Anke Quast: After the Liberation: Jewish Communities in Lower Saxony since 1945. The Example of Hanover (= publications of the Working Group on the History of Lower Saxony (after 1945) , Volume 17), also dissertation in 1999 at the University of Hanover, Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 978-3-89244-447-3 and ISBN 3-89244-447-1 , pp. 324, 327; limited preview in Google Book search
personal data
SURNAME Bremer, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German police and Gestapo officer
DATE OF BIRTH 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH after 1954