Hans Jüttner

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Hans Jüttner (1944)

Hans Gustav Gottlob Jüttner (born March 2, 1894 in Schmiegel , Posen province , † May 24, 1965 in Bad Tölz ) was a German SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the Waffen-SS . During the Second World War he was chief of the SS leadership main office and from July 21, 1944 to April 1945, chief of the staff of the replacement army , in fact, however, commander, since the actual commander Heinrich Himmler only held this function pro forma.

Life

Hans Jüttner came from a petty bourgeois background. His father was vice-principal and his older brother was the later SA-Obergruppenführer Max Jüttner . After attending grammar school , Hans Jüttner began an apprenticeship in banking. Then he volunteered at the outbreak of World War I and joined the German Army . Promoted to lieutenant in 1915 , he was dismissed from the army as first lieutenant in 1920 as the armed forces were reduced. After that he worked briefly as a free corps fighter and then worked as a businessman. In 1928 he started his own business in this profession.

In 1931 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 541.163) and the SA . In 1933 Jüttner became a university sports teacher in Breslau and was entrusted with the management of the SA university office there. In 1934 he also became head of the SA training system in Munich .

In May 1935 he switched to the SS-Einsatzstruppe (SS-VT), the later Waffen-SS (SS-No. 264.497). On September 1, 1936, he was promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer and transferred to the inspection department of the SS disposable troops in Berlin . As early as 1939 Jüttner was inspector of the replacement troops of the SS-VT division. From the beginning of 1940 he headed the command office of the SS disposable troops. In the summer of the same year Jüttner was promoted to chief of staff of the newly created SS Leadership Main Office, which was responsible for the organizational and administrative management of the Waffen SS. On April 20, 1941 he was promoted to SS-Gruppenführer and Lieutenant General of the Waffen-SS and finally on July 21, 1943 to SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS. He reached his career high point on January 30, 1943, when he was appointed head of the SS Leadership Main Office.

As of July 21, 1944, Jüttner was Himmler's deputy as chief of staff in the replacement army, in his function as chief of armaments and commander of the replacement army . Jüttner was jointly responsible for the establishment of numerous prisoner of war camps , in which mainly Soviet prisoners of war were interned.

In the last days of the war, at the beginning of May 1945, Jüttner fled in the wake of Himmler via the so-called Rattenlinie Nord to Flensburg .

post war period

On May 17, 1945, Jüttner was arrested and interned by British authorities. In the course of the Nuremberg doctor's trial , he made affidavits for the accused Karl Genzken . After a trial in the Neustadt camp in 1948, Jüttner was classified in the main culprit category for his activities under National Socialism and sentenced to ten years in a labor camp and confiscated assets. In a revision procedure in 1949 he was only classified as incriminated , which reduced the sentence to four years in a labor camp and made up for internment. Since Jüttner had no formal authority over front units of the Waffen-SS, he did not have to answer before Allied military jurisdiction. However, he made a significant contribution to the "rise of the SS" and to the establishment of Nazi tyranny: For almost two years, he was responsible for inspecting the concentration camps, and replacement and training units of the Waffen-SS subordinate to him were involved in the murder of Czechs in autumn 1941 Civilians and in the spring of 1943 involved in the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

Around 1960 he was based in Bavaria and owned a sanatorium in Bad Tölz, Herderstraße. Jüttner was a co-founder of the HIAG comradeship in Bad Tölz. At his funeral in May 1965, several HIAG comradeships appeared, and HIAG's national spokesman, Karl Cerff , laid a wreath on behalf of Paul Hausser and the HIAG federal board. In addition, the Federal Defense Minister Kai-Uwe von Hassel spoke .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ full name after Rudolf Vierhaus (Hrsg.): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie . Volume 5: Hitz – Kozub. 2nd edition, Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-598-25035-4 , p. 410
  2. ^ Bernhard R. Kroener : "The strong man in the homeland war area". Colonel General Friedrich Fromm. A biography . Paderborn 2005. p. 714.
  3. ^ A b Esther-Julia Howell: Learn from the vanquished? The war-history cooperation between the US Army and the former Wehrmacht elite 1945–1961. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin 2015, p. 173
  4. ↑ full name after Rudolf Vierhaus (Hrsg.): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie . Volume 5: Hitz – Kozub. 2nd edition, Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-598-25035-4 , p. 410
  5. ↑ a b c indexing volume for the microfiche edition: With an introduction by Angelika Ebbinghaus on the history of the process and short biographies of those involved in the process . S. 139. Karsten Linne (ed.): The Nuremberg Medical Process 1946/47. Verbal transcripts, prosecution and defense material, sources on the environment. On behalf of the Hamburg Foundation for Social History of the 20th Century, edited by Klaus Dörner , German edition, Microfiche Edition, Munich 1999, p. 109.
  6. ↑ a b c Hermann Weiß (Ed.): Biographical Lexicon for the Third Reich . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1998, pp. 248f.
  7. ↑ Stephan Link: "Rattenlinie Nord". War criminals in Flensburg and the surrounding area in May 1945. In: Gerhard Paul, Broder Schwensen (Hrsg.): Mai '45. End of the war in Flensburg. Flensburg 2015, p. 21.
  8. ↑ Esther-Julia Howell: Learn from the vanquished? The war-history cooperation between the US Army and the former Wehrmacht elite 1945–1961. De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin 2015, p. 174
  9. ^ The Testimony of Hans Jüttner. In: The Nizkor Project (statement by Hans Jüttner in the proceedings against Adolf Eichmann, May 31, 1961).
  10. ^ Farewell to a great soldier. In: The Volunteer . June 1965, pp. 21-23.
  11. ↑ a b c d e Klaus D. Patzwall : The knight's cross bearers of the War Merit Cross 1942–1945. Patzwall Militaria Archive, Hamburg 1984, p. 209.
  12. ↑ Klaus D. Patzwall: The Knight's Cross Bearers of the War Merit Cross 1942–1945. Militaria-Archiv Patzwall, Hamburg 1984, p. 208.
personal data
SURNAME Jüttner, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jüttner, Hans Gustav Gottlob (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Head of the SS Leadership Main Office and at the same time SS-Obergruppenführer
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Schmiegel
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1965
Place of death Bad Tölz