Hans Trummler

Hans Trummler (born October 24, 1900 in Friedrichroda , † October 22, 1948 in Landsberg am Lech ) was a German merchant, SA leader , SS leader and police officer during the Nazi era .

Life

At the First World War Trummler participated as a soldier in the Regiment Infantry 104 part. In 1919 he was first with the Saxon border hunters and then until 1920 in the Leipzig volunteer battalion. Trummler completed a bank clerk , then studied at the University of Leipzig economics and graduated (pol rer Dr...) In 1923 with a doctorate. Trummler was first a managerial secretary at Commerz- und Privatbank in Zittau, then a clerk at Gothaer Feuerversicherung and finally head of personnel at the Horch-Werke in Zwickau. From 1927 to 1933 he worked in his father's business.

Trummler joined the NSDAP ( membership number 73,599) and the SA in 1928 . In 1932 Trummler became SA staff leader in Leipzig. In autumn 1933 internal opponents tried in vain to expel him from the SA. Since December 1933, he headed the SA university office in Leipzig full-time as SA standard leader. In this capacity he was a member of the Senate of the University of Leipzig and the Leipzig School of Business . During this time Trummler set up an SA off-road sports school in Borna , where professors and lecturers from all over Germany were trained in military sports . Trummler was arrested in 1934 as part of the Röhm Putsch , but was released again. After that, as if he were to build the Mittenwald training camp in the rank of SA Oberführer . On April 12, 1934, he received the NSDAP's golden party badge . In the same year he was appointed head of department at the staff of the SA chief for training and further education and with the state leadership IV (Saxony).

Trummler joined the SS in 1934 as Standartenführer (membership number 254.581). For a short time in 1935 he headed the Reich Sports School in Burg Neuhaus . However, he was soon forced to leave this post after allegations of sexual assault against the participants and financial irregularities. The police headquarters in Leipzig certified that he was a “psychopath” with a “raw, brutal character” , but then again with “childish behavior” . Because of this, he was forbidden to wear the SS uniform in the spring of 1936. In May 1936 Trummler was appointed leader of the Munich border surveillance and was allowed to wear SS uniform again. In January 1938 Trummler also worked for the Gestapo .

Trummler became SS leader at the SD Main Office in 1938 and from September 1939 at the RSHA . He was the commander of a task force of the task force eg V. under Udo von Woyrsch who prepared the attack on Poland with the attack on the Gleiwitz transmitter as part of the Tannenberg company . Trummler led the alleged defenders and Otto Hellwig the alleged Polish attackers. From March 1939 on, Trummler headed the Pretzsch border police school on the Elbe . After this training center was closed, the staff working there were transferred to the Drögen Security Police School in Fürstenberg / Havel , which was still under construction . There he rose to SS-Oberführer in 1941. From the beginning of February 1942 Trummler headed the newly established Drögen Security Police School.

In the summer of 1944 at the latest, he took over the post of inspector of the Security Police and SD (IdS) in Wiesbaden and from mid-September 1944 to mid-December 1944 the post of Commander of the Security Police and SD (BdS) in Metz . Trummler headed the Security Police and the SD Rhein-Westmark under the Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) Jürgen Stroop until the end of March 1945. Since February 1945, Trümmler had been charged with subordinate abuse.

In the final phase of the Second World War he was head of the Trummler combat group named after him , which among other things committed the civil murders of Altötting .

At the end of the war Trummler was arrested and later taken to the Dachau internment camp . As part of the Dachau trials , he and twenty other defendants had to answer in one of the aviation trials for their involvement in the murder of US pilots. On March 21, 1947, Trummler was sentenced to death by an American military tribunal for the execution of American prisoners of war. The sentence was carried out on October 22, 1948 in the Landsberg War Crimes Prison .

Works

• The state and domain forests in the former Duchy of Gotha , dissertation, Leipzig, 1923 OCLC 315129877

literature

• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

Web links

• Hans Trummler's NS personnel files in the CIA archive , accessed on November 18, 2015

Individual evidence

1. ^ Company Tannenberg In: Der Spiegel , No. 32, August 6, 1979, p. 62.
2. ↑ Hans Trummler on www.dws-xip.pl
3. ↑ Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 3: Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald. CH Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-52963-1 , pp. 145ff.
4. ↑ "City of Altötting Heart of Bavaria - Shrine of Europe"
5. ↑ Dachau Trials - Procedure US173 ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2011 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. 
6. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 631.