Hans Henschke

Hans Henschke (born May 22, 1908 in Angermünde ; † June 12, 1987 ) was a German lawyer and senior government councilor, Gestapo official and SS leader who headed the state police headquarters in Kiel and Düsseldorf during the Nazi era . During the Second World War , he was Deputy Commander of the Security Police and Security Service in Paris 1b and as a member of the Sonderkommando Einsatzgruppe A in the Soviet Union at the Holocaust involved.

Early years

After attending school, Henschke, whose father was a postal inspector, studied law at the universities of Berlin and Königsberg . After he had passed the first state examination in law, he was an assessor at the district court in Landsberg an der Warthe and, after passing the second state examination in law, joined the Gestapo police force. He then worked for the Gestapo offices in Münster , Berlin , Dessau and Königsberg and became deputy head of the Königsberg state police station in Königsberg.

Henschke was already politically active in the 1920s a. a. at the Wehrbund Ostmark . He became a member of the NSDAP in 1931 ( membership number 616.820) and joined the SA in 1932 . From the SA he later switched to the SS (SS No. 290.907), in which he rose to Obersturmbannführer in June 1943 .

Second World War

During the attack on the Soviet Union , Henschke was a member of Sonderkommando 1b of Einsatzgruppe A , which was involved in the murder of Jews in the occupied Soviet Union .

From September 8, 1941, Henschke headed the Kiel state police station, where he helped prepare the deportation of Jews from Kiel from December 1941 .

From October 1943, Henschke was deployed as commander of the Security Police and the SD (KdS) under the Commander of the Security Police and the SD (BdS) Helmut Bone in Paris . Henschke became Bone's deputy and succeeded Kurt Lischka in this role .

In October 1944, Henschke was transferred to the state police station in Düsseldorf , of which he was head until the end of the Second World War . During the Ardennes offensive , Henschke led a command z. b. V.

Post War and Trial

After the end of the war, Henschke went into hiding with a false name. His whereabouts were determined on June 1, 1948 by members of the British Field Security in Plön and Henschke was arrested. On October 20, 1948, a British military tribunal sentenced Henschke to twelve years imprisonment for participating in the killings of “ Allied nationals towards the end of the war near Essen's Gruga Park ”. In 1955, Henschke was released from the Werl war crimes prison. Since the denazification proceedings were discontinued in 1952, Henschke did not have to face any proceedings.

From 1956 until his retirement in 1974, Henschke worked for the Herbert E. Hofer insurance company in Mülheim an der Ruhr . In the early 1960s, investigations began against Henschke because of his involvement in the deportation of the Kiel Jews. This investigation has been discontinued. In September 1986 the Hanover public prosecutor brought charges against Henschke for complicity in murder in 10,000 cases. The indictment was based on Henschke's activity as deputy BdS and KdS Paris. However, due to Henschke's death in 1987, there was no longer trial.

literature

• Bernhard Brunner: The France Complex. The National Socialist Crimes in France and the Justice of the Federal Republic of Germany . Wallstein, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89244-693-8 .
• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
• Gerhard Paul : State terror and social brutality. The Gestapo in Schleswig-Holstein. With the collaboration of Erich Koch. Results, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-87916-037-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c d e f} Gerhard Paul: State terror and social brutalization. The Gestapo in Schleswig-Holstein. Hamburg 1996, p. 103.
2. ↑ Hans Henschke on http://www.dws-xip.pl
3. ^ ^{A b c} Bernhard Brunner: The France complex. The National Socialist Crimes in France and the Justice of the Federal Republic of Germany . Göttingen 2004, p. 94.
4. ↑ Holger Berschel: Bureaucracy and Terror: the Department of Jews of the Gestapo Düsseldorf 1935 - 1945 . Essen: Klartext, 2001 ISBN 3-89861-001-2 , p. 90f
5. ^ ^{A b} Gerhard Paul: State terror and social brutalization. The Gestapo in Schleswig-Holstein. Hamburg 1996, p. 231.
6. ^ Gerhard Paul: State terror and social brutality. The Gestapo in Schleswig-Holstein. Hamburg 1996, p. 242.
7. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 246.
8. ^ Bernhard Brunner: The France Complex. The National Socialist Crimes in France and the Justice of the Federal Republic of Germany . Göttingen 2004, p. 182.
9. ^ Bernhard Brunner: The France Complex. The National Socialist Crimes in France and the Justice of the Federal Republic of Germany . Göttingen 2004, p. 165.
10. ^ Bernhard Brunner: The France Complex. The National Socialist Crimes in France and the Justice of the Federal Republic of Germany . Göttingen 2004, p. 165, p. 364.