Hans Cramer (SA member)

Hans Friedrich Eberhard Walter Cramer , (born September 23, 1904 in Heilbronn ; † April 15, 1945 in Grunow near Frankfurt an der Oder ) was a German SA leader, mayor and National Socialist who served as regional commissioner in the Kaunas district during the Second World War - City of the general district of Lithuania of the Reichskommissariat Ostland was used.

Life

Hans Cramer was the son of the Heilbronn teacher and family researcher Max Cramer and his wife, Antonie, née Zeller. From 1930 he was married to Marie (1903-1992), née Obermaier. The couple had five children.

Cramer was a trained businessman and worked as an authorized signatory in Brannenburg . He became a member of the NSDAP in 1928 and was awarded the NSDAP's golden party badge . The SA had joined it in 1928 and also went there in January 1942 to the SA Brigade Commander on. From March 19, 1937 he was mayor of Dachau .

After the beginning of the Second World War he was mayor of Leslau in German-occupied Poland from autumn 1939 , where Jews were forced to wear the Star of David in October 1939 . After the German occupation of the Baltic region, he was area commissioner in Kaunas- Stadt from July 1941 to 1944 , where he forbade Jews to use the sidewalk on July 28, 1941. As in Leslau, Cramer was also involved in the establishment of a ghetto in Kaunas (see Kauen concentration camp ) and the deportation of Jews.

At the end of the war he was an armored infantryman in the Wehrmacht and died on April 15, 1945 in combat operations in the Frankfurt an der Oder area.

literature

• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
• Christoph Dieckmann : German occupation policy in Lithuania 1941-1944 . 2 volumes. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2011
• Helmut Krausnick , Hans-Heinrich Wilhelm: The troop of the Weltanschauung war , Dt. Verl.-Anst., 1981.
• The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945. Part 2: The Baltic States under German civil administration. Soviet Union with annexed areas I: Occupied Soviet areas under German military administration , pp. 509–750. ISBN 978-3-486-58911-5 .

Web links

• Hans Friedrich Eberhard Walter Cramer at www.merkelstiftung.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cramer, Hans Friedrich Eberhard Walter ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on http://www.martinszeller-verband.de 
2. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 96.
3. ↑ Vincas Bartusevičius (Ed.): Holocaust in Lithuania. War, murder of Jews, and collaboration in 1941 . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne [u. a.] 2003, ISBN 3-412-13902-5 , p. 147.