Hans Volk

Hans Volk (born October 30, 1902 in Cologne ; † 1945 ) was a German police officer. From 1933 to 1934, Volk was deputy head of the Secret State Police Office (Gestapa) in Berlin .

Live and act

After attending school and studying law , Volk was appointed court assessor on May 14, 1928. On July 1, 1930 he was appointed public prosecutor in the district of the Berlin II regional court .

In the wake of the violent impeachment of the Prussian state government by the Reich government on July 20, 1932 (“ Preußenschlag ”), Volk was transferred to the Prussian Ministry of the Interior as a senior councilor , where he was presumably employed in the police department.

People, Division II D, 1934 confiscated a book by Elga core in Ernst Reinhardt Verlag

A few weeks after the National Socialist " seizure of power " in the spring of 1933, Volk was appointed to the Secret State Police Office in Berlin on April 28, 1928 , where he held the post of deputy head of the office as a public prosecutor until the end of the year. In the spring of 1934, Volk was appointed head of Department II (Justice Department) of the office as a senior government councilor.

Rudolf Diels claimed that people were in this initial phase of the Secret State Police (Gestapo) a moderating force in the fight against the SA was -Terror in Berlin. Other officials of the political police characterized Volk less positively than opportunists and followers of Diels.

Shortly after Reinhard Heydrich and the SS took over the Secret State Police Office , Volk resigned from the Gestapa on April 28, 1934 “at his own request”. Although Hans Pfundtner had proposed to the Gestapa as a liaison man of the Interior Ministry on April 25 , he moved to the building and finance department of the Reich Interior Ministry before he was transferred to the Halle Police Headquarters in August 1934 .

From 1935 onwards, Volk was the first public prosecutor in the Berlin Court District. From October 1, 1937, he was a public prosecutor at the People's Court , where he served as senior public prosecutor from 1939 to 1940.

Volk, who had also been a member of the NSDAP since May 1, 1933 ( membership number 2.094.153), committed suicide in 1945 when he learned that the Americans were looking for him.

Christoph Graf judged people's career: “The second man in the first phase of the Gestapa under Diels was also a man from the Papen era. A nationally minded judicial officer who was brought into the Gestapa as such by Diels and who did essential things for the establishment of the authority. "

literature

• Christoph Graf : Political Police Between Democracy and Dictatorship , Berlin 1983, p. 388.