Hans Weinreich (SS member)

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Hans Weinreich
Hans Weinreich (2nd from left, black coat with light lapels) with Kurt Daluege at a reception for an Italian police delegation in Berlin (1936)

Hans Weinreich (born September 5, 1896 in Merseburg , † December 23, 1963 in Düsseldorf ) was a German SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police and chief of technical emergency aid (TeNo) .

Life

Weinreich came from a middle-class background; his father was a medical officer. He attended the community school and the grammar school in Merseburg. In August 1914 he volunteered as a war volunteer. During the First World War he was promoted to lieutenant in the reserve in 1917. He was wounded three times and was taken prisoner by the English in 1918. After his release, Weinreich became a police officer in Berlin from 1919 to July 1920 . He then worked as a farmer and commercial clerk in the Leuna factory .

From 1920 to 1921 Weinreich was a member of the Stahlhelm . On March 15, 1922, he joined the NSDAP in Munich ( membership number 5.920) and was local group leader and propaganda leader from 1922 to 1924. He was also a member of the SA from March 15, 1922 to December 15, 1936 . In 1924 he became a member of the Frontbann .

From February 1, 1928 he was SA leader in the Halle-Merseburg district . Later he became Oberführer of the Gausturm Halle-Merseburg and since July 1, 1932 leader of the subgroup Halle-Merseburg. In 1932 he became SA group leader, for example, in the Obersten SA leadership . From July 1, 1933, he was a staff leader at the Inspector General of the SA.

In 1932 he became a member of the Prussian state parliament and since November 12, 1933 also a member of the Reichstag for constituency 11 Merseburg.

On March 1, 1933, he joined the SS (SS no. 278.160) and was appointed SS honorary leader with the rank of SS group leader. On April 24, 1934, the Reich Minister of the Interior appointed him head of the Reich Office TN. On December 15, 1936, he became a full SS group leader . From June 12, 1937 to July 1943 he was head of the TeNo in the Reichsamt TN, and from December 1941 head of the TN office in the main office of the Ordnungspolizei . On January 1, 1941, he was promoted to major general, on December 1, 1942, after a lengthy dispute with the Reich Ministry of Finance, to lieutenant general of the police (see note: * Frank Flechtmann, Technical Emergency Aid, Air Protection and Forced Laborers, in: Arbeitskreis Berliner Regionalmuseen ( Ed.), Forced Labor in Berlin 1938–1945, Berlin 2003, pp. 141–153, here 143 f.)

Weinreich was married to Erika Baumgarten (* November 7, 1899 in Wieda ; † November 15, 1942 by suicide ). She was also a member of the NSDAP (membership number 37,543). With her he had a daughter (born January 23, 1925, † November 15, 1942).

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Weinreich was demoted on September 25, 1943 on the orders of Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler for “unsuitability” and dismissed from the SS. Weinreich's dismissal resulted from a publicly known affair with a prostitute , from whom he contracted a venereal disease, which he passed on to his wife. Nevertheless, Weinreich wanted to marry this prostitute. As a result of these incidents, his wife and 17-year-old daughter decided to commit suicide. According to another version, his wife killed their daughter and then committed suicide.

He had to hand over the leadership of the TN to SS-Gruppenführer and Lieutenant General of the Police Willy Schmelcher . On July 1, 1944, Weinreich was transferred to the reserve.

After the war he lived temporarily in Solingen and died in Düsseldorf .

Awards

literature

  • Hans-Joachim Neufeldt, Jürgen Huck, Georg Tessin : On the history of the regulatory police 1936–1945. In; Publications of the Federal Archives . 3/1957. Koblenz 1957, p. 115.
  • 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 .
  • Erich Stockhorst: 5000 people. Who was what in the 3rd Reich . Arndt, Kiel 2000, ISBN 3-88741-116-1 (unchanged reprint of the first edition from 1967).
  • Frank Flechtmann, Technical Emergency Aid, Air Protection and Forced Laborers, in: Arbeitskreis Berliner Regionalmuseen (Ed.), Forced Labor in Berlin 1938–1945, Berlin 2003, pp. 141–153.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Diary No. III / 10 / 42g of September 25, 1943.
  2. ↑ a b Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres , Mittler & Sohn Verlag, Berlin 1930.

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personal data
SURNAME Weinreich, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR, MdL
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Merseburg
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1963
Place of death Dusseldorf