Hans Seibold

Hans Seibold

Johannes Seibold , called Hans Seibold (born February 2, 1904 in Unterkochen ; † May 20, 1974 in Seemoos (Friedrichshafen) ), was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and SA leader.

Live and act

The son of a worker visited the elementary school in Unterkochen and the secondary school in Aalen, which he in 1919 with the GCSE completed. By 1923 he completed a technical apprenticeship at the Swabian ironworks in Wasseralfingen . He then worked for a year as a draftsman at JM Voith in Heidenheim an der Brenz . From 1924 to 1927 he received further training at the state higher mechanical engineering school in Esslingen am Neckar , which he left after graduating as a mechanical engineer. From spring 1927 to January 1, 1934, Seibold worked as a designer at Dornier Metallbauten in Friedrichshafen . Seibold married in 1929; the marriage resulted in five children.

Politically, Seibold belonged to the NSDAP since December 1927 ( membership number 72.024), in which he became district leader on March 6, 1928 and district leader for Friedrichshafen / Tettnang on October 1, 1932. In the SA he reached the rank of Sturmbannführer in 1933.

From April 24, 1932 until the dissolution of this body in autumn 1933, Seibold was a member of the Württemberg Landtag . He then sat from November 1933 until the end of Nazi rule in the spring of 1945 as a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for constituency 31 (Württemberg) .

After leaving Dornier, Seibold was a full-time NSDAP district leader from 1934. In this function Seibold came into conflict with the Friedrichshafen police director Eduard Quintenz , who resisted interventions by the district leadership in his area of ​​responsibility. After Quintenz had opened a private letter addressed to Seibold, he was expelled from the NSDAP under pressure from Seibold. The exclusion from the party was later softened into a warning; Quintenz was transferred to Oberndorf as district administrator .

During the Second World War , Seibold was drafted into the Wehrmacht in April 1940. After participating in the German attack in the west , he was placed in the uk in October 1940 . Recalled in autumn 1941, Seibold was seriously wounded on the Eastern Front in March 1942 and released in autumn 1942 as "permanently unfit for work".

In the final phase of the war, Seibold supported the Gestapo with executions in Friedrichshafen. Shortly before the arrival of French troops in the city, he fled, but was taken prisoner in nearby Kressbronn . According to contemporary witness reports, Seibold, like the NSDAP district leader of Schwäbisch Hall, Otto Bosch , was publicly pilloried by the occupation troops "so that citizens could beat, pelt or spat at them". In addition, he is said to have been forced “to shovel his own grave near Tettnang Castle and go into it naked; he was doused with salt water and left in the blazing sun for hours ”. According to his own statements, Seibold was handed over to American agencies in Paris; then he was interned in Wiesbaden, Stuttgart and Dachau according to the automatic arrest .

From March 5 to 7, 1947, Seibold and two other defendants were tried before an American military court in one of the aviation trials that took place as part of the Dachau trials . Seibold was accused of having given the order in July 1944 to kill a US pilot who jumped off after an air raid on Friedrichshafen near Ailingen . The pilot was initially in the custody of the mayor of Ailingen; During the transfer to the Wehrmacht he was shot dead by an auxiliary police officer, allegedly while trying to escape. Seibold stated in his defense that he only found out about the incident "on the day after next as part of the incoming air raid damage report". The court sentenced Seibold and a co-defendant to life imprisonment; the third defendant was sentenced to death. The sentence was later reduced to 28 years; in June 1955 Seibold was released early.

After his release from prison, Seibold initially worked as an engineer for a company in the Seemoos district of Friedrichshafen. He was seriously injured in a traffic accident in December 1955. Most recently, he worked as a commercial clerk at a construction company in Friedrichshafen.

literature

• Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 , p. 609 .
• Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 861 .
• Frank Raberg : Seibold, (Johannes) Hans. In: Bernd Ottnad, Fred Ludwig Sepaintner (Hrsg.): Baden-Württembergische Biographien. Volume 3, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-17-017332-4 , pp. 382-384.
• Frank Raberg: Hans Seibold: deluded madness and stubbornness. In: Wolfgang Proske (Ed.): Perpetrators, helpers, free riders. Volume 5. Nazi victims from the Lake Constance area , Kugelberg, Gerstetten 2016, pp. 236–247. ISBN 978-3-945893-04-3 .

Web links

• Hans Seibold in the database of members of the Reichstag
• United States vs. Hans Seibold et al. - Case No. 12-931 (pdf; 2.5 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Raberg, Seibold, (Johannes) Hans , p. 383.
2. ^ Christine Arbogast: ruling bodies of the Württemberg NSDAP. Function, social profile and life paths of a regional Nazi elite 1920–1960. Oldenbourg, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-486-56316-5 , p. 243.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Raberg, Seibold, (Johannes) Hans , p. 384.
4. ^ Fritz Maier: Friedrichshafen. The history of the city from the beginning of the 20th century to the end of the Second World War. Gessler, Friedrichshafen 1994, ISBN 3-922137-46-6 , p. 400.