Hans Hartmann (officer)

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Hans Hartmann was a German lawyer , officer and Righteous Among the Nations .

Life

Hartmann studied law in Frankfurt, Hanover, Göttingen and Marburg. He joined the Frankfurter, the Hannoversche, the Göttinger and the Marburger Wingolf before he was drafted into the Wehrmacht.

Righteous among the peoples

During the Eastern campaign in 1942, Hans Hartmann was stationed in the rank of captain as one of the senior officers of Army Motor Vehicle Unit 457 in the repair depot in what was then Lemberg . Lemberg had a large Jewish ghetto and the Janowska forced labor camp . If the situation of the people in the Lviv ghetto was already extremely precarious, a transfer to the Janowska forced labor camp was like a death sentence.

In February 1942, father and son Goldberg were separated from the rest of the family and taken from the Jewish ghetto to the notorious camp. The wife and mother Gittel Goldberg stayed behind. The woman from Thuringia fled the ghetto and wandered the streets of Lemberg for days. As a German she spoke a little Polish, but she did not speak Russian. So she only spoke to German people wearing uniforms to ask for help. Only one person stopped and listened attentively to the frightened woman with the Jewish star on her coat, Hans Hartmann. For the next day he arranged to meet Gittel Goldberg. The next morning, Hans Hartmann drove to the camp in a military vehicle and, after exchanging words with the guards at the main gate, accepted father and son Goldberg. At the agreed location he met Gittel Goldberg so that she could take her husband and 19-year-old son in her arms.

The SS dealt with the Hartmann case and a few days later he was transferred to a repair unit at Rommel's Africa Corps . There he survived until the end of the war before he took up the post of postmaster after a temporary job in his hometown as a lawyer.

On July 16, 1963 , Yad Vashem recognized Hans Hartmann as Righteous Among the Nations under the file number 0008 .

literature

  • Yad Vashem (Ed.): The Encyclopedia of the Righteous Among the Nations
    • Israel Gutman et al. a .: Europe (Part I) and Other Countries . Jerusalem 2007, 139-140.

Web links

  • Israel Gutman, Daniel Fraenkel: Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations: Germans and Austrians . tape 1 . Wallstein Verlag, 2005, p. 140 f . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Photo by Hans Hartmanns
  • Hans Hartmann on the website of Yad Vashem (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of members of the Göttingen Wingolf. Year 2007. p. 41.
personal data
SURNAME Hartmann, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hartmann, Hans (officer)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, officer and Righteous Among the Nations
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century or 20th century
DATE OF DEATH after 1945
Place of death Wolfratshausen