Hans Joachim Rühle from Lilienstern

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Hans Joachim Rühle von Lilienstern (born January 9, 1915 in Fritzlar ; † November 26, 2000 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German economist and SS-Hauptsturmführer of the reserve during the Second World War .

Life

Rühle von Lilienstern was born in Fritzlar, Hesse , in 1915, the son of a doctor. At the beginning of January 1933, before the National Socialists came to power , he joined the NSDAP (membership no. 3.287.913) and the SS (SS no. 151.372). He was employed as a trainer in the 1st SS Standard; between 1934 and 1935 he did military service in the Reichswehr , most recently as a sergeant in a rifle unit . In 1938 he was promoted to lieutenant in the reserve . During this time he worked in the chemical industry .

He started studying in Munich in 1934 and graduated in 1938 with a degree in economics . After the beginning of the Second World War he took part in the French campaign as a member of the Waffen SS . At the beginning of the German-Soviet War he was the commander of the war correspondent train of the SS-Totenkopf-Division . From 1942 he was employed in the Aryanization department of the Reich Commissioner of the Netherlands . There he was involved in the confiscation of Jewish property and their expropriation. A doctorate to Dr. rer. pole. had these processes as a topic. Later Rühle von Lilienstern was a front-line officer of the 4th SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Brigade "Nederland" on the Eastern Front and received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross in January 1944 . He was then assigned to head the SS Junker School in Bad Tölz . At the end of the war he commanded a battalion of the 38th SS Grenadier Division "Nibelungen" .

After the end of the war, Rühle von Lilienstern was employed as an honorary professor at the Technical University of Stuttgart . He was also a business consultant and managing director of the Rationalization Board of Trustees of German Business in Frankfurt. In 1973, a revocation of his doctorate from 1942 was discussed after the journalist Julius Mader noticed the anti-Semitic and pseudo-scientific tone of the doctoral thesis of 1942. However , they did not withdraw their academic degree . Rühle von Lilienstern died in 2000.

From 1969 to 1976 he was a member of the Advisory Board of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation .

literature

  • Gordon Williamson: The SS - Hitler's Instrument of Power. Neuer Kaiser Verlag, Fränkisch-Crumbach 1998, ISBN 978-3-8468-2003-2 .
  • Stefanie Harrecker: Graduated doctors. Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-8316-0691-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article by Der Spiegel .
  2. ^ [1] Personnel file and documents of the Central Intelligence Agency.
  3. ↑ Stefanie Harrecker: Degraded Doctors. Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-8316-0691-7 .


personal data
SURNAME Rühle von Lilienstern, Hans Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist, SS-Hauptsturmführer of the reserve during the Second World War
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Fritzlar
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 2000
Place of death Frankfurt am Main