Hans Zimmermann (politician, 1906)

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Hans Zimmermann as a witness at the Nuremberg trials

Hans Zimmermann (born October 18, 1906 in Nuremberg , † 1984 in Bayreuth ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ).

Life

After attending school in Nuremberg, Zimmermann was trained as a mechanical engineer at the Technical State College. Zimmermann joined the NSDAP at the beginning of November 1930 ( membership number 377.977) and in the same year joined the Sturmabteilung (SA). In Nuremberg Zimmermann worked between 1930 and 1933 as a section leader of the party, then as a local group leader and from mid-July 1934 as a district leader. On June 27, 1933, he became the administrative director of the General Local Health Insurance Fund in Nuremberg and from May 16, 1939 to 1945 head of the Reich Association of Local Health Insurance Funds. From 1933 to 1935 he was on the city council of Nuremberg and then councilor there until 1945.

On July 7, 1940, Zimmermann joined the National Socialist Reichstag in the replacement procedure for Albert Forster , who had changed to another mandate , in which he represented constituency 26 (Franconia) until the end of the Nazi regime.

Between February 1940 and April 1942, Zimmermann was initially acting and then officially Gauleiter of Franconia after Julius Streicher was suspended from this post. From April 1942 to November 1943 he did military service. After his return he became SA-Oberführer and main area leader of the NSDAP. On April 18, 1945, he fled the city during the Battle of Nuremberg .

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Individual evidence

  1. Utho Grieser: Himmler's husband in Nuremberg. The Benno Martin case. A study on the structure of the 3rd Reich in the "City of the Nazi Party Rallies". (= Nuremberg workpieces on city and state history. Volume 13) Nuremberg city archive, Nuremberg 1974, ISBN 3-87432-025-1 , p. 312
  2. Joachim Lilla: Overview of the NSDAP Gaue, the Gauleiter and the Deputy Gauleiter between 1933 and 1945 on www.zukunft-brauch-erinnerung.de