Hartmut Gerstenhauer

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Hartmut Gerstenhauer (born August 1, 1903 in Meiningen ; † unknown) was a German district administrator in occupied Poland during National Socialism . In the Lublin district, he served as District Chief and as a senior official of the district administration in organizing the Holocaust involved. In the Federal Republic of Germany he became President of the Senate at the Schleswig-Holstein State Social Court in Schleswig .

Life

Gerstenhauer studied economics and law in Heidelberg , Würzburg and Jena from 1922 to 1925 . He passed the two state legal examinations in 1925 and 1929 and was then employed as a government assessor at various district offices in the state of Thuringia . On November 1, 1933 he was Councilor after the on May 1, 1933 NSDAP ( membership number 2913916) was joined. In 1937 he was employed at the Hildburghausen District Office and in 1939 at the Sondershausen District Office .

With the establishment of the General Government in Poland, from autumn 1939 he was district chief in the Krasnystaw district in the Lublin district . In the fall of 1940 he moved to the district administration to the district governor Ernst Zörner in Lublin as his personnel manager and head of the presidential affairs.

As district chief of Krasnystaw, Gerstenhauer had two Poles sentenced to death by a court martial in December 1939 and shot for allegedly inciting against the German military. In August 1940 Gerstenhauer had set up a ghetto outside the city in Krasnystaw and had 1,125 houses of Jews cleared in the district . The concentration of the Jewish population in a very small area and the formation of ghettos were prerequisites for the so-called final solution to the Jewish question .

Gerstenhauer went back to Thuringia to the Arnstadt district in February 1941 and worked in the Gera district in May 1942 and in the Weimar district from November 1942 . After the end of the war, he was briefly imprisoned by the NKVD and therefore moved to the British occupation zone in Lübeck in December 1945 , as he had to fear extradition to Poland as a war criminal. From the summer of 1948 he worked as a conductor in Lübeck.

During the denazification he was classified as a fellow traveler on December 30, 1948 in Lübeck and in mid-1950 became a lawyer at the Schleswig Upper Insurance Office. In 1950, his district head colleague Hans-Adolf Asbach from the neighboring Polish district of Janów Lubelski became Minister of Social Affairs in the state of Schleswig-Holstein , who now protected him and made him judge of the state social court in 1954.

Through a letter from the Kiel medical professor and neurologist Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt , Gerstenhauer had known since December 1954 that Werner Heyde , one of the main people responsible for the National Socialist murders of the T4 campaign , was preparing reports for the regional social court under the name of Fritz Sawade . Heyde was able to continue practicing until his arrest in November 1959. One of the Holstein Schleswig-parliament to educate the Heyde Sawade affair inserted inquiry committee as one of the people who knew determined Gerstenhauer in June 1961 by the identity Heydes with Sawade. A prosecution of Gerstenhauer did not take place. In November 1962 Gerstenhauer was promoted to President of the Senate by Asbach's successor, Minister of Social Affairs Lena Ohnesorge .

Hartmut Gerstenhauer was the son of the ethnic anti-Semite Max Robert Gerstenhauer .

literature

  • Markus Roth: Gentlemen. The German District Chiefs in Occupied Poland - Career Paths, Rule Practice and Post-History. Wallstein, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0477-2 .
  • Bogdan Musial : German civil administration and persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-447-04208-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Short Biography Markus Roth: master race , S. 474 and S. 393F.
  2. ↑ a b Short biography with Bogdan Musial : German civil administration and the persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement . Wiesbaden 1999, p. 385 f.
  3. ↑ Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen , pp. 190f.
  4. ↑ Bogdan Musial: German civil administration and the persecution of Jews in the Generalgouvernement . Wiesbaden 1999, p. 131.
  5. ^ Klaus-Detlev Godau-Schüttke: The Heyde / Sawade affair. How lawyers and medical professionals covered the Nazi euthansia professor Heyde after 1945 and remained unpunished. 2nd Edition. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2001, ISBN 3-7890-7269-9 , p. 133.
  6. ^ Klaus-Detlev Godau-Schüttke: Heyde / Sawade affair . P. 229 f.
  7. ↑ Heyde confidante: The shadows are giving way . In: Der Spiegel . No. 6 , 1962, pp. 31 f . ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Gerstenhauer, Hartmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative officer (NSDAP) and judge
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Meiningen
DATE OF DEATH 20th century