Hans Hättasch

Hans Hättasch (born December 6, 1896 in Berlin ; † after 1945) was a German construction officer and local politician ( NSDAP ). From 1940 to 1943 he was the district mayor of Berlin-Wilmersdorf .

Life

Hättasch was born in Berlin in 1896 as the son of a city administrative director. He joined the 5th Guards Regiment on foot as a war volunteer in 1914 and spent the entire First World War at the front. He suffered several wounds and became a company commander and finally a regimental adjudant of an infantry regiment. In 1919 he volunteered in the struggles against left-wing radical workers led by the KPD and USPD ( Spartacus uprising ) and was wounded again in the process.

Hättasch studied structural engineering at the Technical University of Charlottenburg and from 1922 worked as a government building manager as a graduate engineer. After the state examination, he headed larger construction projects in East Prussia as a government master builder from 1924 at the Reichspost . From 1927 he was employed by the city of Berlin and after a few years was appointed senior building officer. Hättasch became a member of the NSDAP in May 1933; he succeeded in making a name for himself politically that from 1937 he became an advisor to the mayor Julius Lippert .

Since the beginning of the war, he was responsible for issues relating to the city's war economy and personnel policy. In May 1940 he was appointed district mayor of Wilmersdorf, where he was taken for a Gestapo spy, which was probably due to his function as the Reich capital's liaison to the Gauleitung and the security service . The appointment as district mayor is probably due to his proximity to Lippert, who had to vacate his post as mayor and mayor of Berlin in 1940 after ongoing quarrels with Albert Speer . In the autumn of 1943 he became an alderman in the main administration (building construction, aircraft damage repair, housing, district and planning). After the last administrative restructuring in Berlin in April 1944, through which Joseph Goebbels was also appointed mayor and mayor, Hättasch became general and permanent representative of the mayor on June 2, 1944. He was the last nominal National Socialist district mayor in Wilmersdorf.

Hättasch is said to have been arrested by Red Army units in 1945 ; his further fate is unknown.

literature

• Udo Christoffel: Berlin Wilmersdorf . The years 1920 to 1945. Ed .: Kunstamt Wilmersdorf. Wilhelm Möller KG, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-9801001-1-1 , p. 511 .
• Karl-Heinz Metzger, Monika Schmidt, Herbert Wehe, Martina Wiemers: Local government under the swastika . Berlin-Wilmersdorf 1933-1945. Ed .: District Office Wilmersdorf of Berlin. Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-89468-057-1 , p. 104 .

Web links

• Berlin district lexicon Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Karl-Heinz Metzger, Monika Schmidt, Herbert Wehe, Martina Wiemers: Local government under the swastika . Berlin-Wilmersdorf 1933-1945. Ed .: District Office Wilmersdorf of Berlin. Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-89468-057-1 , p. 104 .