Hans Scharrer

Hans Scharrer (born March 8, 1892 , † April 28, 1945 in Munich ) was a German municipal official in Munich.

Life

City inspector Hans Scharrer opened the town hall in Munich to Oberleutnant Hans Betz, company commander of the 61st Battalion of the Bavarian Freedom Campaign , and led them to Christian Weber . Karl Fiehler was supposed to fix the raid troop company. Weber was taken to a footpath on the Isar between Munich-Freimann and the Erdinger Moos , abandoned and subsequently demanded the execution of Scharrer.

The high treason suspects, including Franz Ritter von Epp , were arrested by a commando of the SS tracked by Leonhard Würmseer. Epp was brought to Salzburg on the morning of April 29, 1945 and questioned there by the SS. Paul Giesler read Rudolf Huebner's death sentences aloud , which was referred to as a "flying stand trial ". Scharrer was shot dead without his right to a fair hearing. Captain Alfred Salisco was entrusted with the execution of the sentence . Since he delayed this order, he received this order again after two hours, whereupon between 5 and 6 p.m. on April 28, 1945, a squad of three Volkssturm men shot and shot Caracciola, who was lying on the ground, in the neck from a short distance with a pistol .

On October 19, 1945, the bodies of Scharrer, Günther Caracciola-Delbrück , Maximilian Roth and the deserter Gerns, who had been shot with the identity of the French national Louis Trinqueen, were found in the Perlacher Forest . Scharrer was buried in the Perlacher Forst cemetery; the grave was abandoned in 1976.

In December 1945, the Munich Regional Court I refused to open the main proceedings against Alfred Salisco and Leonhard Würmseer for homicides on the grounds that Giesler's shooting orders were based on National Socialist legislation, and even if they were not, the accused would have not knowing about the illegality. A brother-in-law of two of the murdered, the lawyer Ernst Kessler, then wrote an indignant letter to the Prime Minister and Justice Minister Wilhelm Hoegner in which he warned of the “tendency of Bavarian courts” to “treat typical Nazi crimes with typical Nazi jurisdiction.” At Kessler's insistence Hoegner was probably committed to ensuring that the murderers were still held responsible. In November 1947 the regional court sentenced Alfred Salisco to life in prison and Leonhard Würmseer to one year and six months in prison.

A commemorative plaque was installed in Maxvorstadt , Ludwigstrasse 2, in his memory .

publication

• The electricity demand structure of the urban small consumers under esp. d. Electric heat , 1933
• From Bavaria's hardest time: factual report about d. Liberation of Munich 20 years ago , 1939

literature

• LG Munich I, November 24, 1947 . In: Justice and Nazi crimes . Collection of German convictions for Nazi homicidal crimes 1945–1966, Vol. II, edited by Adelheid L. Rüter-Ehlermann, CF Rüter . Amsterdam: University Press, 1969, No. 37, pp. 48–74. Several people were shot, partly in connection with the 'Bavarian Freedom Campaign '

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Klaus Bäumler, Giving names and places to memory ( Memento from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Kulturreferat (Munich) , Marion Detjen, “Coping with the Past” after 1945 ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ^ Helga Pfoertner: memorials, memorials, places of remembrance for the victims of National Socialism in Munich 1933-1945, Living with history , Volume 3: Q to Z , Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-8316-1026-6 , p. 21st