Hans Haltermann

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Hans Haltermann in June 1942

Hans Werner Haltermann (born April 20, 1898 in Berlin , † June 17, 1981 in Paderborn ) was a German engineer, National Socialist politician, senator in Bremen , SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police.

Life

Haltermann was the second child of the Reichbank accountant and later Reichsbank councilor Max Wilhelm Gustav Haltermann (born May 29, 1862) and his wife Anna Dorothea, née Schmidt (born December 24, 1868 in Glogau).

He attended the Realgymnasium Berlin-Lankwitz until 1914 and joined the 2nd replacement battalion of the Guard Foot Artillery Regiment of the Prussian Army as a volunteer during the First World War . At his own request he was released from army service on March 31, 1919. After graduating from high school in 1919, he first studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Berlin from 1920 to 1925 , but broke off. He then became an electrical engineer in Berlin. From 1927 to 1933 he was managing director of an electrical company in Bremen .

As a politically extreme right-wing man, he fought against the Spartakusbund in Berlin in 1918/19 . He was a right-wing participant in the Kapp Putsch and other right-wing actions. From 1925 to 1926 he was a member of the right-wing extremist military association Frontbann . In 1926 he was already a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 44.393) and the paramilitary fighting organization of the Nazis - the SA . In 1927 he became SA Sturmführer and in 1929 SA Standartenführer in Bremen. He headed the SA in Bremen from 1927 to 1930. Under his leadership, the Bremen SA grew to 60 men in 1927. Her main tasks were the so-called hall and demonstration protection, which she often enforced with violence.

From 1930, Haltermann was a member of the Bremen citizenship for the NSDAP . After taking power, he became Senator for Labor, Technology and Welfare on March 18, 1933. In 1936, after the " Röhm Putsch ", he switched to the SS (membership number 276.294) and became SS Oberführer and on January 30, 1943 SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police . As a senator he was active until 1939, but formally retained the office until 1942.

During the Second World War , Haltermann fought from 1939 to 1940 as a first lieutenant in the Wehrmacht in Poland and in the west. From October 1941 he was SS and Police Leader (SSPF) of Kiev , in May 1943 SSPF of Charkow , from November 1943 SSPF of Mogilew , from July 7, 1944 to January 9, 1945 deputy HSSPF Northeast and from January 1945 SSPF in Krakow . In March 1945 he was briefly in Bremen, then in Berlin, where he was injured.

After the war he was taken prisoner by the English, escaped in August 1945, was arrested again and was interned until 1949 . In the denazification process , he was classified as a victim . He then lived in Bremen and took care of family research .

Awards

Haltermann's SS and police ranks
date rank
January 1917 Sergeant
January 1939 SS-Oberführer
April 1940 SS Brigade Leader
January 1942 Major General of the Police
January 1943 SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich ; S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-10-039309-0 .
  2. ^ Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon ; Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
personal data
SURNAME Haltermann, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haltermann, Hans Werner (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician, SS and police leader
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 17th June 1981
Place of death Paderborn