Hans Pieper (SS member)

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Hans Kurt Ernst Pieper (born September 28, 1902 in Berlin ; † January 30, 1980 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German Gestapo officer and SS leader.

Live and act

Pieper was initially a bank clerk. After he started studying chemistry at the University of Leipzig , he belonged to the Christian student association and was involved in the economic self-help of the student body . At times he was a member of the board of directors of the Leipzig student body. With a few fellow students who were also involved in economic self-help, he formed a group called the Black Hand . This group, which met in Heinz Gräfe's parents' apartment , included Graefe and Pieper, Erhard Mäding , Ernst Kaußmann and Friedrich Maetzel. Later came William Spengler added. In addition to the focus on student self-help, the group's area of ​​interest also included social and political issues; working meetings were organized. The economic self-help of the Leipzig students e. V. was in competition with the NSDStB and was feuded by this NS organization, as it is said to have vilified the NSDStB in the Asta election campaign and on leaflets.

Pieper joined the police force in 1931 and worked for the political police in Berlin. At the time of National Socialism he joined the SS in 1935 (SS No. 267.324) and in 1937 the NSDAP ( membership number 5.499.959). As a member of the Gestapo, from 1938 onwards he worked as a police advisor in the Secret State Police Office, the Gestapo headquarters in Berlin. In November 1941 he was promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer , his highest SS rank. From the beginning of May 1942 he was head of the office of Amt IV in the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA). After the Hitler assassination attempt, he was a member of the special commission on July 20, 1944 . In the final phase of the Second World War , he was promoted to government councilor in 1945 .

At the end of the war he stayed in Husum and was given papers made out to a false name and the uniform of a customs officer. He hired himself as a farm worker near Husum. However, his forged identity was discovered and he was automatically arrested as an SS member by the British occupation authorities on December 11, 1945 and then interned in the Langwasser, Münster and Fallingbostel camps until February 19, 1948. As part of the denazification process, he was sentenced to a year and a half imprisonment by the court in Hamburg-Bergedorf , which was considered to have been served due to his internment. In the course of a preliminary investigation into the RSHA complex, he was interrogated several times; the proceedings against him were discontinued in 1966. According to Johannes Tuchel , he was one of the best-informed Gestapo officers, but he only responded evasively during the interrogations. He became managing director of the Volksbund for Peace and Freedom , a West German association that promoted anti-communist propaganda.

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 427.
  • Andrea Loew: German Reich and Protectorate September 1939 – September 1941 (= The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945. Vol. 3). Oldenbourg, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-58524-7 , p. 501, note 5.
  • Johannes Tuchel : “… and all of them the rope is waiting.” The cell prison Lehrter Straße 3 after July 20, 1944 (= writings of the German Resistance Memorial Center: Analyzes and Representations. 7) Lukas, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-867- 32178-5 .
  • Michael Wildt : Generation of the Unconditional. The leadership corps of the Reich Security Main Office. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-930908-75-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth register StA Berlin VIII, No. 2638/1902
  2. ↑ Death register StA Freiburg im Breisgau, No. 247/1980
  3. ↑ a b Andrea Loew: German Empire and Protectorate September 1939 – September 1941 (= The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945. Vol. 3). Oldenbourg, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-58524-7 , p. 307, note 2
  4. ↑ Michael Wildt: Generation of the Unconditional. The leadership corps of the Reich Security Main Office. Hamburger Edition, E-Book Edition 2013
  5. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 461
  6. ↑ Ernst Johannes Tuchel: "... and the rope is waiting for all of you." The cell prison Lehrter Strasse 3 after July 20, 1944. Berlin 2014, p. 43
personal data
SURNAME Pieper, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pieper, Hans Kurt Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Gestapo officer and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 30, 1980
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau