Hans Moser (SS member)

Hans Moser after his internment. Recorded between 1946 and 1949.

Hans Moser (born November 20, 1907 in Celle ; † 1994 ) was a German SS leader and chief officer in the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office (WVHA).

Life

Moser worked in the police administration service before his department was transferred to the Wehrmacht at the beginning of 1936 . In 1936 Moser became a member of the SS (SS no. 276.746) and in 1937 of the NSDAP ( membership number 3,958,949). In the SS, Moser rose to SS-Standartenführer of the Waffen-SS on September 1, 1943 .

From the beginning of July 1936, Moser was a full-time employee in the administration of the SS and the SS available troops . In the administration of the Waffen SS he later reached high positions as divisional and corps intendant. At the beginning of August 1943, Moser was transferred to the Main Economic and Administrative Office (WVHA), where he headed the Office BI (Catering Office) and finally became Deputy Head of Office Group B Georg Lörner . In mid-September of the same year he became deputy head of the WVHA under August Frank , which was affiliated with the main police force . From September 1944, Moser was then chief of the department for special use in the WVHA as standard leader. In the first quarter of 1945 he represented the head of the office, Gerhard Maurer, in the management of Office D II ("Prisoners' work") of the WVHA.

After the end of the war, Moser was able to evade arrest, but in 1946 he voluntarily went into Allied internment. In the following years he was interrogated as a witness at the Nuremberg trials.

literature

• Jan Erik Schulte : Forced Labor and Extermination. The economic empire of the SS. Oswald Pohl and the SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt 1933–1945. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2001, ISBN 3-506-78245-2 (also: Bochum, Univ., Diss., 1999).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Jan Erik Schulte : Forced Labor and Destruction: The Economic Empire of the SS. Oswald Pohl and the SS Economic Administration Main Office 1933-1945. Paderborn 2001, p. 472f.
2. ↑ Hans Moser on www.dws-xip.pl