Hans Richter (SS member)

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Hans Richter (born November 15, 1903 in Berlin , † 1972 ) was a German civil servant and SS storm leader.

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Richter was the son of a music manufacturer. After attending school, he began studying law . In addition, he devoted himself to artistic ambitions: He belonged to the specialist class for decorative painting under Harold Bengen at the School of Applied Arts and Crafts in Berlin-Charlottenburg and he was a private student of the sculptor Erich Wild . Richter had to drop out of his studies in 1930 due to economic difficulties without a degree.

In May 1932 Richter joined the NSDAP (membership number 1,097,068). In November of the same year he joined the SS (membership number 36.122). In the party he took on tasks as a prison warden, d. that is, he looked after National Socialist prisoners. In this way he first became an informant for the security service of the SS (SD), in which he was accepted as a full-time employee in May 1933.

In the SD main office , Richter temporarily headed the Masonic Museum established in 1935, in which, among other things, Adolf Eichmann had to serve as Richter's subordinate for a while as part of his SD training. Eichmann later recalled:

“I was assigned to an Oberscharführer Richter, a Berliner who had completed a few semesters of college, could not continue due to the political events and figured there to a certain extent as museum director. His task was to assemble the material seized in various Masonic lodges in Germany [...] like a museum. "

After the establishment of the Reich Security Main Office , Richter headed Divisions II B 1 (Freemasonry) and II B 2 (“Judaism”) in Office II (ideological research on opponents) in accordance with the business allocation plan of February 1940. According to the business distribution plan of March 1941, he was in charge of Section VII C 2 (“Museum and Exhibition System”) in Office Group VII (“Worldview Research and Evaluation - SD-Abroad”).

Fonts

  • Freemasonry in defense . In: Volk im Werden , Volume 6, September 1938, Issue 9, p. 436.

literature

  • Michael Wildt : Generation of the Unconditional. The leadership corps of the Reich Security Main Office . Hamburg 2002.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jochen von Lang: The Eichmann Protocol. Tape recordings of the Israeli interrogations . 1982, p. 25.
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS leader in the RSHA
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1972