Hans Joachim Kohnert

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Hans-Joachim Kohnert (born June 28, 1905 in Bromberg , West Prussia , † June 26, 1972 in Harthaus (district of Germering ), Upper Bavaria ) was a high-ranking Nazi functionary and farmers' representative; after 1945 he became a functionary for expellees and a lobbyist for German meat factories.

Life

After graduating from high school in Bromberg and doing Polish military service, Kohnert attended the Technical University in Gdansk . He finished his agricultural studies in 1930 as a qualified farmer. In the same year he was staff sergeant d. R. (Polish Army Reserves).

He was the spokesman for the German Association for Poznan and Pomeranian (DV) in Poland until it was dissolved in January 1940. The district leader of the Warthegau, Arthur Greiser , appointed him to his personal staff on September 10, 1940. From 1935 Kohnert took over the management of the German Association from Erik von Witzleben . The SS came Hans-Joachim Kohnert on 13 November 1939, after the (Member No .: 356 871), with the rank of SS-top leader , a year later (January 1 1941) and the NSDAP (No .: 7 848 301); previously (October 20, 1939) he had already been awarded the gold party badge of the NSDAP. The Wehrmacht made him lieutenant on April 20, 1941 and awarded him the War Merit Cross 1st Class without swords on January 30, 1943.

On April 1, 1941, he succeeded Karl Reinhardt as the country's farmer's leader in the Reichsgau Wartheland . During World War II , Dr. Hans-Joachim Kohnert as SS-Oberführer and head of the department. "Agriculture and food industry" in the so-called "Warthegau" in Poland occupied by German troops, jointly responsible for the organization of the extermination of Jews in the Warthegau

After the Second World War he worked as managing director of the Association of German Meat Manufacturers in Bonn . From 1956 to 1960, Kohnert was again politically active as the federal spokesman for the Landsmannschaft West Prussia . He also worked as the managing director of the Lower Saxony rural people, the state farmers' association.

Kohnert had been married to Eda, nee Schlubach, since 1932. The marriage had two daughters and three sons.

Honors

He was awarded the Golden Party Badge of the NSDAP . On September 30, 1944, Kohnert was honored with the Knight's Cross of the War Merit Cross.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beata Dorota Lake Mountain: The German minority press in Poland 1918-1939 and its Polish and Jewish image . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-60048-1 , p. 328 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ^ Patzwall, Klaus D. (1984): The Knight's Cross Bearers of the War Merit Cross, 1942–1945: a documentation in words and pictures. Hamburg: Verlag Militaria-Archiv, p. 181
  3. ↑ www.getto-chronik.de: Dr. Hans Kohnert
  4. ↑ Klaus D. Patzwall : The Knight's Cross Bearers of the War Merit Cross, 1942–1945: a documentation in words and pictures . Militaria Archive, Patzwall 1984, p. 181 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. ^ Alberti, Michael (2006): The persecution and destruction of Jews in Reichsgau Wartheland, 1939–1945. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, pp. 60, 308, 364
personal data
SURNAME Kohnert, Hans Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kohnert, Hans; Kohnert, Hans-Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lobbyist; Country farmer's guide in Reichsgau Wartheland (1941–1945)
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Bromberg , West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1972
Place of death Harthaus , Upper Bavaria