Hans Julius Kehrl

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Hans Julius Kehrl (born August 6, 1892 in Jüterbog , † April 22, 1961 in Hamburg ) was police president and air raid leader in Hamburg and SS brigade leader (1942) at the time of National Socialism .

Life

After completing his school career in 1909, Kehrl joined the justice administration service in Jüterbog. As a soldier in the German Army , he took part in the First World War. After the end of the war, with the rank of lieutenant in the reserve, he switched from judicial to police service. At the end of July 1924 he was hired as a police major in the Thuringia state police . There he was the deputy head of the Thuringia State Police. In July 1930 he became the commander of the Thuringian state police and police director of Gera . From 1932 he headed the police department in the Thuringian Ministry of the Interior with the rank of ministerial councilor. In 1934 he, now promoted to Ministerialdirigenten, was transferred to the Reich Ministry of the Interior and was also the police department there. Kehrl joined the NSDAP in 1931 ( membership number 498.187) and the SS in 1937 (SS number 278.247). From the beginning of 1937 to the beginning of May 1945 he acted as police chief of Hamburg and local air raid leader.

Kehrl was significantly involved in the persecution of Hamburg's Sinti and Roma . At his suggestion, a collection camp for Sinti and Roma was set up in the east of Hamburg, from which the deportations later took place:

“The police are constantly complaining about the fact that the Gypsy girls are offering themselves to the young people in the vicinity of their homes, that the Gypsies are standing around begging in front of the shops and that their homes are in an unsanitary condition. The close coexistence between these anti-social gypsies and the German population increases the risk of moral corruption, hybridization and the spread of contagious diseases. [...] In my opinion, it is not necessary for party authorities to first appear in order to put an end to this situation. "

After the liberation from National Socialism in Hamburg, Kehrl was arrested by members of the British army in early May 1945 and was detained in the Neumünster , Fischbek and Neuengamme internment camps from May 5, 1945 . Kehrl was sentenced to four years' imprisonment as a result of a court hearing in Hamburg-Bergedorf as part of denazification . After his early release from prison in September 1950, Kehrl tried unsuccessfully to get reinstalled at the Hamburg Senate Personnel Office , but was granted a reduced pension.

Hans Kehrl died on April 22nd, 1961, and found his final resting place in Ohlsdorf cemetery .

Awards

Kehrl's SS ranks
date rank
1937 SS-Sturmbannführer
September 1937 SS-Obersturmbannführer
April 1938 SS standard leader
November 1938 SS-Oberführer
January 1942 SS Brigade Leader

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Kehrl personally on May 31, 1939 to Mayor Carl Vincent Krogmann Quoted in: The National Socialist Persecution of Hamburg Roma and Sinti - Five Contributions , in: State Center for Political Education Hamburg (PDF; 3.7 MB) , p. 55.
  2. ^ Herbert Diercks : Documentation town house. The Hamburg police under National Socialism. Texts, photos, documents , Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial , Hamburg 2012, p. 28
  3. ^ The resting places of Hamburg's personalities
personal data
SURNAME Kehrl, Hans Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Police chief in Hamburg at the time of National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Jueterbog
DATE OF DEATH April 22, 1961
Place of death Hamburg