Hans Juhl

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Hans Vilhelm Adolf Juhl (* 1903/1904; † unknown), also known as Gestapo-Juhl , was a German farmer, SS-Hauptscharführer , chief detective and from summer 1943 head of the security and border police in Helsingør, Denmark .

Life

Before the Second World War he worked as a farmer near Flensburg and joined the NSDAP and the SS shortly before the seizure of power in 1933 . Shortly after the occupation of Denmark by Germany , he arrived in Denmark in 1940.

Juhl took part in the Jewish campaign on October 2, 1943 and was successfully involved in the hunt down of fugitive Jews who tried to find a means of transport across the Öresund to Sweden near Helsingør . In the night of October 6th to 7th, he and Wehrmacht soldiers succeeded in arresting the most important Jews in Denmark. About 80 people who are in the church of Gilleleje had hidden, were arrested and later to the concentration camp Theresienstadt deported . Juhl testified as a witness in trials that took place in Denmark after the liberation and got away with it himself.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bo Lidegaard : The exception. October 1943: How the Danish Jews escaped extermination with the help of their fellow citizens. Karl Blessing Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-89667-510-1 , p. 449
  2. ^ Matthias Bath : Danebrog against the swastika, The Resistance in Denmark 1940-1945. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2011, ISBN 978-3-529-02817-5 , p. 133
  3. ↑ Bo Lidegaard: The exception. October 1943: How the Danish Jews escaped extermination with the help of their fellow citizens , p. 447
  4. ↑ Bo Lidegaard: The exception. October 1943: How the Danish Jews escaped extermination with the help of their fellow citizens , p. 449
personal data
SURNAME Juhl, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Juhl, Hans Vilhelm Adolf (full name); Gestapo-Juhl, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Head of the Gestapo in Helsingør
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
DATE OF DEATH after 1945