Hans Schindhelm

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Hans Schindhelm or Hans-Gerhard Schindhelm (* July 5, 1908 in Dresden ; † unknown) was a German lawyer, SS leader and Gestapo officer .

Life

After completing his school career, Schindhelm studied law at the universities of Dresden and Leipzig . After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he became a member of the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 (membership number 2,452,706) and of the SS on June 27, 1938 (membership number 353,427).

From 1938 Schindhelm worked as an assessor at the Jewish Department of the Gestapo Leipzig. There he headed Section II B 3. In April 1941, Schindhelm succeeded Johannes Thümmler as deputy head of the Dresden State Police Headquarters, where he also headed Division II (fighting opponents).

From mid-November 1942 to October 1943 led Schindhelm, succeeding Erich Isselhorst the task force 8 of Einsatzgruppe B , the murdered Jews in Belarus.

From November 1943, Schindhelm headed Division IV (Gestapo) at the commander of the Security Police and the SD in the Generalgouvernement . Schindhelm was promoted to the Upper Government Council in May 1944 and rose to SS-Obersturmbannführer in the same year. Schindhelm described himself as the "hangman of Krakow".

From February 1945, Schindhelm headed the security police and SD in the fortress of Frankfurt am Main .

His whereabouts could not be clarified after the end of the war.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography of Hans Schindhelm ( Memento from August 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Götz Aly , Federal Archives, Institute for Contemporary History : The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933-1945. Volume 2: German Reich 1938 - August 1939. Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-58523-0 , p. 353
  3. ^ Ephraim Carlebach Foundation (ed.): Judaica Lipsiensia: On the history of the Jews in Leipzig. Leipzig: Edition Leipzig, 1994. p. 202
  4. ↑ Norbert Haase, Stefi Jersch-Wenzel , Hermann Simon (eds.): Memory has a face. Photographs and documents on the National Socialist persecution of Jews in Dresden 1933–1945. Kiepenheuer, Leipzig 1998, ISBN 3378010266 , p. 104
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Marschner: Persecuted - Deported - Burned. About the fate of the Jews in Dresden in autumn 1942 on www.hagalil.com
  6. ↑ Israel Gutman (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Holocaust - The persecution and murder of European Jews , Piper Verlag, Munich / Zurich 1998, 3 volumes, ISBN 3-492-22700-7 , Vol. IV (appendices and registers), p 1716
  7. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 536.
personal data
SURNAME Schindhelm, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schindhelm, Hans-Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, SS leader and perpetrator of the Holocaust
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century