Hans Gottfried Reimers

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Hans Gottfried Reimers (* 1902 ; † October 21, 1941 in Bordeaux ) was a German War Administrator (KVR) in Bordeaux with the rank of major at Field Command 529 during the Second World War .

Life

Hans Reimers was assigned to Feldkommandantur 529, which was subordinate to the military commander of France under Otto von Stülpnagel . He was the head of the labor deployment and placement department at the field command office (FK) Bordeaux.

Reimers was killed in an assassination attempt by the French resistance fighter Pierre Rebière on October 21, 1941 and was probably not a targeted victim. Shortly before, the field commandant Karl Hotz had been assassinated in Nantes .

Ernst Jünger , who served on the staff of the military commander of France, describes the course of the attack as follows:

“Reimers was in the company of a comrade, the War Administrator Dr. Kohlmann, on the way from the joint office to the apartment. They strode down Georges V Boulevard, which was not very busy at this hour . As they crossed the junction with Rue Patay , two cyclists fired several shots at them from behind, one of which Reimers was struck through the back in the heart and killed immediately. The perpetrators escaped through a side street on Rue Patay, ... "

After the German occupying forces summoned and interrogated around 7,000 people without being able to identify the perpetrator, calls for retaliatory measures arose. As a result of the assassination, von Stülpnagel initially had 48 hostages shot, but was then urged by Hitler to carry out executions at a ratio of 1: 100 for every German soldier killed, so that 50 more prisoners became victims of shootings.

The assassin Rebière, a member of the Central Committee of the French Communist Party , was only later caught, sentenced to death and executed on October 5, 1942.

Reimers was buried on October 25, 1941 in the cemetery of Saint Bris in Villenave d'Ornon near Bordeaux. The funeral speech was held by Moritz von Faber du Faur , city commandant of Bordeaux.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MD Law (ed.), Supplement To Britannica Book Of The Year 1942, recording events of particular interest to Great Britain and the British Empire, published by the Encyclopaedia Britannica Co., p. 293, keyword: "France", https: //archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.215697/page/n351/mode/2up/search/%22Hans+Gottfried+Reimers%22?q=%22Hans+Gottfried+Reimers%22 , accessed on 8. February 2020
  2. ↑ a b c Sven Olaf Berggötz (ed.), "Ernst Jünger on the hostage question - description of the cases and their effects", Klett-Cotta-Verlag, Stuttgart 2011, p. 43, https://books.google.de/books ? id = BoSbMB7eXkMC & pg = PT43 & lpg = PT43  ; viewed on February 8, 2020
  3. ^ A b Repression and war crimes: the fight against resistance and partisan movements against the German occupation in western and southern Europe . Verlag der Buchladen, 1997, ISBN 3-924737-41-X , p. 83 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ↑ European memorial sites https://www.gedenkorte-europa.eu/content/list/64/l  ; viewed on February 8, 2020
  5. ^ German biography: Stülpnagel, Otto von - German biography. Retrieved February 15, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Ernst Jünger: On the hostage question: description of the cases and their effects . Klett-Cotta, 2011, ISBN 978-3-608-10218-5 , pp. 25 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  7. ↑ Regina M. Delacor: bombings and repression . Thorbecke, 2000, ISBN 3-7995-7268-6 , pp. 171 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  8. ↑ Karl Kohut (ed.), "Literature of the Resistance and Collaboration in France", Volume 3, p. 122, https://books.google.de/books?id=3P7nTvrw8P0C&pg=PA122&lpg=PA122  ; viewed on February 8, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Reimers, Hans Gottfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reimers, Hans-Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German war administrator
DATE OF BIRTH 1902
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1941
Place of death Bordeaux