Hans Hayn

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Hans Hayn

Albrecht Johannes "Hans" Hayn (born August 7, 1896 in Liegnitz , Province of Silesia , † June 30, 1934 in Munich-Stadelheim ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and SA leader.

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After attending grammar school and an upper secondary school in Liegnitz, Hans Hayn completed a commercial apprenticeship from 1911 to 1914. When the First World War broke out in August 1914, he volunteered for the Reserve Field Artillery Regiment 50. In 1917 he was appointed lieutenant in the reserve. After the end of the war, Hayn worked as a commercial trainee and employee in Breslau and Mönchengladbach . In 1921 he participated as a fighter in the Roßbach Freikorps in the "Border Guard" in Upper Silesia (see Border Guard East ).

In 1923 Hayn was one of the organizers of the armed resistance against the French occupation of the Ruhr area . Together with Albert Leo Schlageter , he carried out dynamite attacks on French facilities as the leader of a sabotage squad. While Schlageter was arrested and arrested in preparation for an attack, Hayn managed to escape. After Schlageter was sentenced to death by a military tribunal and shot, Hayn joined the Black Reichswehr , a secret reserve of the regular army. In October 1923, Hayn took part in the Küstriner putsch of the Black Reichswehr. He spent eight months in prison in connection with a femicide in the late 1920s.

From 1924 to 1931 Hayn was the owner of a “specialty shop”. At the end of the 1920s he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 211.251). As one of the closest friends of the National Socialist politician Ernst Röhm , Hayn made a career in the Sturmabteilung (SA), the party army of the NSDAP, of which Röhm was chief of staff for many years.

On the occasion of the so-called Stennes Revolt , a mutiny that broke out in early April 1931 by parts of the SA in Berlin, Silesia and Pomerania against the political course of the leadership of the NSDAP in Munich, party functionary Paul Schulz was appointed by Hitler and Ernst Röhm to the acting OSAF East ( appointed commander of the SA in the areas east of the Elbe) and charged with suppressing the revolt and reorganizing the SA. At the beginning of April Schulz removed the previous commander of the Gausturm Silesia of the SA, Kurt Kremser, from his post because he had supported the Stennes revolt. In his place, Schulz appointed Hayn, whom he knew from their time together in the Black Reichswehr, as the acting leader of the Gausturm in Silesia. In June 1931 Edmund Heines von Hayn took over the leadership of the Silesian SA, which at that time was converted from a Gausturm into an independent SA group. At that time, Hayn was appointed staff leader of the newly created group and thus, after Heines, the second highest SA functionary in Silesia. After he had initially filled this post for almost four months as part of an assignment, he was formally permanent appointment to this post on October 14, 1931. In December 1931, Hayn also received the rank of SA Oberführer.

In the Reichstag elections of July 1932, Hayn was elected to the Reichstag as a National Socialist member of the constituency 7 (Breslau). In the elections of November 1932 and March 1933, his mandate for this constituency was confirmed. In the elections of November 1933, Hayn received a mandate for constituency 28 (Bautzen), which he was to represent until his death in June 1934. After his death, Hayn's mandate was continued by Karl Götz until the end of the electoral term .

In December 1932 Hayn changed from the post of staff leader of the SA group Silesia to the post of leader of the SA sub-group Central Silesia South. The reason for this was that the previous leader of this group, Hanns Günther von Obernitz , had to flee to Italy due to his involvement in a series of explosive attacks, so that the post was de facto vacant. Hayn's successor as staff leader of the SA group in Silesia was taken over by Count Pückler, initially in the form of an assignment to carry out the business of the staff leader and then as a regularly appointed staff leader.

On July 1, 1933, Hayn was appointed leader of the SA group in Saxony. After the SA Obergruppenführer Manfred von Killinger , he was the highest SA representative in the country. In 1933 Hayn lived in Dresden , Münchner Strasse 3.

On June 30, 1934, Hayn, who , according to Karl Martin Graß , was "notorious for [his] radical demeanor," was arrested as part of the Röhm affair and taken to the Stadelheim prison in Munich. He was shot there in the afternoon on Hitler's personal orders, together with Edmund Heines , Hans Peter von Heydebreck , Wilhelm Schmid , August Schneidhuber and Hans Erwin von Spreti-Weilbach by an execution squad put together by Sepp Dietrich .

Archival material

  • Party correspondence on Hans Hayn (Federal Archives: holdings PK Film D 332 "Hein, Herbert - Hein, Marianne", pictures 983–994)

literature

  • Christine Pieper: Georg von Detten and Hans Hayn. The Saxon SA group leaders and the "Röhm Putsch". In: Dies., Mike Schmeitzner , Gerhard Naser (Hrsg.): Braune Karrieren. Dresden perpetrators and actors in National Socialism. Sandstein, Dresden 2012, ISBN 978-3-942422-85-7 , pp. 60-65.
  • Bernhard Sauer: Black Reichswehr and Fememicide. A milieu study on right-wing radicalism in the Weimar Republic . Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-936411-06-5 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Genri / Michael Davidson: Hitler Over Russia? The Coming Fight Between the Fascist and Socialist Armies , 1936, p. 34.
  2. ^ Karl Martin Graß: Edgar Jung, Papenkreis and Röhmkrise 1933-34. 1966, p. 183.
personal data
SURNAME Hayn, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hayn, Albrecht Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR and SA leader
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Liegnitz , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1934
Place of death Munich-Stadelheim