Hans Siegling

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Hans Siegling (born February 24, 1912 in Graefenhain ; † after 1975 ) was a German police officer and manufacturer. During the Second World War led him 1st Company of took Reserve Police Battalion 3 in numerous mass shootings of Jews and civilians by the B commandos of Einsatzgruppe part. At this time Siegling also built up the Schutzmannschafts-Battalion 57 , which was used to fight partisans and participated in the depopulation of entire regions. In summer 1944 he formed in Warsaw the schutzmannschaft Brigade "Siegling" that the 30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (Russian no. 2) converted and win Lings leadership in France was used for partisan warfare. After the war Siegling worked as a manufacturer in Bavaria .

Life

Siegling joined the NSDAP and the SA in 1930 . In 1932 he began his service with the security police . He therefore resigned from the NSDAP and the SA in the same year, only to rejoin the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 after the “ seizure of power ” (membership number 3.279.337). In May 1941 he applied for membership in the SS (membership number 450,683), which took place on November 25, 1941 with the rank of Hauptsturmführer . In 1944 he was promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer and on August 14, 1944 to SS-Obersturmbannführer and to lieutenant colonel of the police. After the war he became an entrepreneur in Bavaria.

Siegling took part in the raid on Poland and in autumn 1941 became commander of the 1st company in the rank of captain of the Reserve Police Battalion 3. At the beginning of December 1941, his company was assigned to Einsatzgruppe B and assigned to Einsatzkommando 8 (EK 8). Here the police were involved in numerous mass shootings of Jews by EK 8. A witness from the 1st Company stated after the war that members of the company had participated in the killing of 48,000 Jews. Siegling claimed to have seen only one mass shooting herself.

When the deployment of Reserve Police Battalion 3 with the Einsatzgruppen ended in the summer of 1942, the 1st Company transferred to Schutzmannschaftsbataillon 57. Siegling had built up this unit from the beginning of 1942 from Ukrainians and White Ruthenians in order to use them to fight partisans. The Schuma 57 under Siegling's command took part in extermination actions against the rural civilian population as part of the “fight against partisans and gangs”, in which several thousand men, women and children were shot.

After the Germans withdrew from Belarus, the Ukrainian and Belarusian units were gathered in German service in East Prussia and near Warsaw. Siegling formed the "Siegling" protection team brigade from these associations. It consisted of four rifle regiments, an artillery and a cavalry division. On the orders of Heinrich Himmler it was transformed on July 31, 1944 into the 30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (Russian No. 2).

At the beginning of August 1944, the unit was relocated to East Prussia and soon afterwards to France to fight against the Resistance in the rear of the front. Siegling issued unusually harsh orders to fight gangs, in which he called for “ruthless intervention and action against the French population” and stated that the task was: “Somehow suspicious French are to be arrested and rendered harmless. We don't know prisoners. "

On November 22, 1944, the unit fought against regular French troops, but suffered heavy losses due to their inadequate equipment. There had been many desertions and mutinies before that. On November 26, 1944, panic broke out among the soldiers, so that Siegling certified that they were incapable of fighting. The unit was transferred back to Grafenwoehr in Germany and disbanded on December 31st.

In Grafenwöhr, the Waffen Grenadier Brigade of the SS (Belarusian) was initially set up under Siegling's command from January 1945 , which was converted in March to the 30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (Belarusian No. 1) , but without it in April 1945 Combat operation was disbanded.

literature

  • Stefan Klemp: "Not determined". Police Battalions and the Post War Justice. A manual. 2nd Edition. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2011, ISBN 9783837506631 .
  • Leonid Rein: The kings and the pawns. Collaboration in Byelorussia during World War II. Berghahn Books, New York 2011, ISBN 9780857450432 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Klemp: "Not determined". Police Battalions and the Post War Justice. A manual. 2nd Edition. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2011, ISBN 9783837506631 , p. 87.
  2. ↑ Klemp, "Not Determined" , pp. 87f.
  3. ↑ Klemp, "Not Determined" , p. 90.
  4. ↑ Klemp, "Not determined" , pp. 46–48, 90f.
  5. ^ Leonid Rein: The kings and the pawns. Collaboration in Byelorussia during World War II. Berghahn Books, New York 2011, ISBN 9780857450432 , p. 367.
  6. ↑ a b Rein, Kings , p. 371f.
  7. ↑ Peter Lieb : Conventional war or Nazi ideological war? Warfare and the fight against partisans in France 1943/44. Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, ISBN 3486579924 , p. 123.
  8. ↑ a b Rein, Kings , p. 374 f.
personal data
SURNAME Siegling, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German policeman and manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Graefenhain
DATE OF DEATH after 1975