Hans Nockemann

Hans Nockemann (born November 16, 1903 in Aachen , † December 19, 1941 outside Moscow ) was a German lawyer and SS leader . He held the rank of Standartenführer and Colonel of the Police and worked as Inspector of the Security Police and the SD in Düsseldorf , Commander of the Security Police and the SD in the occupied Netherlands and Head of Office II (Organization, Administration and Law) of the Reich Main Security Office. From June 1941 he was in the Waffen SS .

Life

Origin and studies

Hans Nockemann was born on November 16, 1903 in Aachen as the son of a businessman. In the last year of the First World War , at the age of 15, he worked for ten weeks as a young man in the stage.

After high school studied cam man law and political science in Bonn and Munich and graduated with a as "fully satisfactory" rated dissertation on the coal industry law Dr. jur. In 1922 he joined the Alemannia Bonn fraternity .

In autumn 1923 he took part in the fight against the Rhenish separatists in Aachen, was arrested by Belgian occupation troops and, after a few days of imprisonment, deported to Bonn.

In October 1931, Nockemann began working at the Aachen district court . In November of the same year he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 1.107.551), although at that time the membership of Prussian officials in the KPD and NSDAP was prohibited as an official offense. In May 1932 he became a member of the SA . In order to have more time for his party work, however, he left the SA in November 1932.

According to a report by the " Association of National Socialist Jurists ", Cologne District , from September 22, 1933 to the Prussian Minister of the Interior, Dr. Nockemann in Aachen “was one of the very first officials who not only joined the National Socialist movement, but also worked continuously and energetically in it. He always appeared as a National Socialist in public and also to his officials. "

As a result of his work as legal advisor to the Aachen NSDAP district leadership, he was one of the young assessors to whom all positions in administration and justice were open after the National Socialist takeover .

Head of the State Police in Aachen, Cologne and Düsseldorf

An application by Nockemann from February 1933 to be taken over into the Prussian internal administration was accepted by the Minister of the Interior on the basis of laudatory recommendations. In a statement of 11 April 1933 the Reich Commissioner for the Prussian Ministry of the Interior who spoke Duisburg Mayor and poor presidential candidate in 1925, Karl Jarres from an "excellent lawyers," the "is particularly suitable especially with today's political situation." Similarly, The certificate of good repute of Aachen's Lord Mayor Wilhelm Rombach also failed . Nockemann was therefore hired on a trial basis as legal counsel and assigned to the district president in Aachen on May 10, 1933. On November 1, 1933, he was taken on as a government assessor, after he had worked as a political clerk and press officer and head of the state police station. However, the promotion to the government council did not take place until June 1934. That his sponsors and superiors did not make a mistake with Nockemann from their point of view, was confirmed by the commitment with which he fulfilled his tasks. In a situation report signed by Nockemann for August 1934 of the Aachen state police station on September 4, 1934, it says:

"The undersigned has occasionally had to discover on a short vacation trip that Judaism is spreading again in the most unpleasant way in the most varied of German seaside resorts, but especially on Heligoland, but that other circles are also appearing in a way that is most sensitively endangering the national community who have a dubious virtue that they have money. "

Nockemann's ideological solidarity and diligence struck even the head of the Secret State Police Office (Gestapa) in Berlin . The deputy head of the Gestapa, Werner Best , informed the Reich and Prussian Interior Ministers in a letter dated February 4, 1935 that Dr. Nockemann should finally take over the management of the state police station in Aachen. But just two months later, Nockemann left Aachen and took over the management of the state police station in Cologne . Heinrich Seetzen was his successor in Aachen . In autumn of the same year Nockemann was transferred to Koblenz as head of the Gestapo . Linked to this was the promotion to the Upper Government Council on October 1, 1936, deviating from the regular minimum waiting time of three years. In 1939 Nockemann became inspector of the security police and the SD (IdS) in Düsseldorf .

Commander of the Security Police and SD Netherlands

With the beginning of the western campaign in May 1940, Nockemann, meanwhile SS-Sturmbannführer , was appointed by Heinrich Himmler's circular of May 24, 1940 as commander of the security police and SD (BdS) for the occupied Netherlands . For SD command cam's also included Karl Gengenbach as leader of the SD, Bruno Müller (in Poland leader of Einsatzkommando 2 the use of Group I ) and Erich von Reden, who later became secretary for monetary, banking and insurance in Division III C 4 of the Reich Security Main Office . In June 1940, Nockemann led a raid and search of Dutch publishers for German-language émigré literature in Amsterdam . A large part of the publications by German émigrés published by Querido and Allert de Lange was confiscated. Heinrich Mann , Klaus Mann , Jakob Wassermann , Lion Feuchtwanger , Anna Seghers , Arnold Zweig and Alfred Döblin published in the former publisher .

In the Reich Security Main Office

At the end of June 1940 Nockemann was replaced by Wilhelm Harster as BdS and took over in September 1940, after a brief stopover as IdS in Düsseldorf, as head of Office Group II (organization, administration and law) of the RSHA . He also represented the often absent Head of Office I (Personnel) Bruno Linienbach .

Nockemann's wife Edith, born in 1911, studied German , art history , newspaper and theater studies in Kiel , Munich , Berlin , Hamburg and Copenhagen and received her doctorate in 1936 with a dissertation on woodcuts of the 15th century. She renounced a career as an art historian and in 1938 worked for the women's office of the German Labor Front in Aachen . The marriage remained childless.

In the Waffen SS

For the Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police and the SD in the war against the Soviet Union , Nockemann was originally intended to be the leader of Einsatzgruppe A, which was then taken over by Walter Stahlecker , as Nockemann was seriously injured in a car accident in early June 1941. His wife and driver were killed. Nockemann was finally drafted into the 2nd SS Panzer Division " Das Reich " and died on December 19, 1941 in a hospital from the consequences of being wounded by shrapnel in the Battle of Moscow .

literature

• Michael Wildt: Generation of the Unconditional. The leadership corps of the Reich Security Main Office. Hamburger Edition HIS Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-930908-75-1 .

Web links

Commons : L. de Jong - Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in de Tweede Wereldoorlog 1939-1945  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Hans Nockemann in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Detmar Philippi: Alemanni album 1969 for the 125 foundation festival of the Alemannia fraternity in Bonn. 1969, p. 72.