Hans Damrau

Hans Damrau (born February 19, 1902 in Freystadt in West Prussia , † December 20, 1952 in Bochum ) was a German lawyer and Nazi functionary.

Life

Damrau was the son of an elementary school teacher. He attended the Löbenichtsche Realgymnasium in Königsberg and passed the Abitur examination in 1920. He then studied at the University of Königsberg law . After passing the first state examination in 1923, he became a trainee lawyer at the Königsberg Higher Regional Court . In 1925 he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD . He was a member of the Teutonia Königsberg fraternity and chairman of the anti-Semitic and anti-democratic university ring of the German type in Königsberg. From 1925 to 1928 he was head of the university policy committee of the German fraternity . He passed the second state examination in Berlin in 1927. Damrau then worked as a district judge in Goldap , Angerburg and Königsberg. At the beginning of December 1927 Damrau was promoted to the city council of Hagen and in 1930 to the magistrate's council.

Even before the beginning of the four-year membership ban of the NSDAP , Damrau was accepted into the National Socialist German Workers' Party on National Labor Day ( membership number 3.283.748). The SA was he joined in April 1933 (the last rank: Sturmbannfuehrer). He was also a member of the Association of National Socialist German Lawyers . After the victory of the National Socialists and their German national partners in the Reichstag election in March 1933 , Damrau became a city councilor in Hagen in April 1933 . He headed the city's welfare office. From February 1934 he was first acting and from April 1934 full mayor of Iserlohn . Damrau also headed the Westphalian Conference of Welfare Departments at the German Municipal Association , of which he was also a member. In February 1938 he was transferred to Görlitz , where he was mayor until 1940. According to Klee, the NSDAP initiated a party court case against him in 1940 on the basis of “private affairs” that cost him the position of mayor. Damrau registered for the Waffen SS in the spring of 1940 (last rank: SS-Sturmbannführer , 1944). In April 1940 Damrau was briefly head of office in the Lublin district of the Generalgouvernement . He then worked as a war correspondent with the Waffen SS on the Eastern Front, then commander of an SS regiment and finally a general staff officer in the final phase in the Ruhr basin . In 1949 he was denazified in Wetter (Hessen) . From 1950 he was co-owner of a company in Bochum .

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 .
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians, Part 1: A – E. Heidelberg 1996, pp. 181-182.
• Werner Präg / Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (eds.): The service diary of the German Governor General in Poland 1939–1945 . Publications of the Institute for Contemporary History , Sources and Representations on Contemporary History Volume 20, Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-421-01700-X .
• Joachim Lilla : Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46) , Aschendorff-Verlag Münster, ISBN 978-3-402-06799-4 , p. 135.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 101.
2. ^ ^{A b c} Joachim Lilla: Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945/46) , Aschendorff-Verlag Münster, ISBN 978-3-402-06799-4 , p. 135
3. ^ Helge Dvorak, Christian Hünemörder: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. References: Volume I Politicians, Part 1: AE, Heidelberg 1996, pp. 181–182, here: p. 181.
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Werner Präg, Wolfgang Jacobmeyer (Ed.): The service diary of the German Governor General in Poland 1939-1945 . Stuttgart 1975, pp. 946f.