Hans Stephan (police officer)
Hans Stephan (* 1. May 1902 in Hamburg , † 14. May 1953 ibid) was a German policeman and headed the Jewish Section of the Hamburg Gestapo from 1943 to 1945. Stephen was instrumental in the deportation of the Jews of Hamburg involved.
Life
Stephan, whose father was a master locksmith, worked as a commercial clerk after finishing school. From 1926 he was employed in the police service of the industrial police in Hamburg. When he joined the NSDAP in May 1933, he switched to the Hamburg State Police (part of the Gestapo in 1935) and from 1935 worked there in the so-called "Judenreferat". In autumn 1943 at the latest, Stephan von Claus Göttsche took on leading and organizational functions in the Jewish department of the Hamburg Gestapo. In this position, which he held until May 1945, he accompanied a transport of deported Jews to Theresienstadt in 1943 . Before the end of the war, Stephan went into hiding with other Gestapo officers in Heide for a short time . He was arrested in Hamburg in May 1945 and interned there until 1948. In 1949 criminal proceedings against him on suspicion of crimes against humanity for lack of evidence were dropped. Stephan died in Hamburg in May 1953.
literature
- Linde Apel, in collaboration with the Research Center for Contemporary History in Hamburg and the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial (ed.): Sent to death - The deportations of Jews, Roma and Sinti from Hamburg, 1940 to 1945 . Metropol Verlag, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-940938-30-5 .
- Beate Meyer, in collaboration with the Institute for the History of German Jews (ed.): The persecution and murder of Hamburg's Jews 1933–1945: history, testimony, memory . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-8353-0137-5
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| SURNAME | Stephan, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German policeman, head of the Hamburg Gestapo Jewish Department |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 14, 1953 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |