Hartmut Pulmer

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Hartmut Pulmer 1960. At that time he lived under the pseudonym Hans Petersen

Hartmut Adolf Pulmer (born November 9, 1908 in Koenigsberg in der Neumark , † April 24, 1978 in Bensheim ) was a German lawyer, SS-Obersturmbannführer and Gestapo employee .

Life

Pulmer studied law at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and became a member of the SS in 1933 (SS no. 178.784). He worked as a legal trainee in Nordhausen / Harz. After completing his studies, he became a Gestapo officer in February 1938 and was then deputy to the Stapo leader Heinz Gräfe at the Tilsit state police station .

After the beginning of the Second World War he was part of a task force of the task forces during the attack on Poland . From the beginning of 1940 he then headed the Zichenau state police station in the border area with Poland .

From January 1943 Pulmer was commander of the security police and the SD (KdS) in Rennes . The constant defeats of the German armed forces on all fronts, the invasion of the American armed forces in North Africa and Italy, and above all the persistent rumors of an imminent invasion of the American armed forces in France and the increase in the support of the Resistance by parachutists and larger arms deliveries reinforced the armed forces French resistance in its catchment area. In April 1944 Pulmer was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer . The NSDAP ( membership number 5487085), he only came in during the Second World War.

In November 1944 Pulmer became head of the state police station in Nuremberg and in January 1945 KdS there. Shortly before the US Army liberated Nuremberg , Pulmer gave orders to shoot foreign forced laborers .

Then he went into hiding with a forged pay book and was later able to get an identity card in the name of Hans Petersen . Pulmer lived with his family under a false name in Bensheim and worked there as an employee. After he was reported in writing to the Central Office of the State Judicial Administration for the investigation of National Socialist crimes in 1965 , the investigations against him, which had been initiated for the first time in 1948, were resumed. Proceedings for falsification of civil status were discontinued in return for a fine of 150 DM . Pulmer was retired from 1969. Because of his activities during the Nazi era, proceedings began in 1974 at the Giessen Regional Court to investigate the offenses committed by members of the Zichenau state police station against Pulmer and other former Gestapo employees at this station. Pulmer left the proceedings on the first day of the trial because he was certified as incapable of standing. Pulmer died in Bensheim in 1978.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register of the Bensheim registry office No. 124/1978.
  2. ↑ From: Personal inventory ..., Justus Liebig University Giessen, published 1928
  3. ^ A b c Klaus-Michael Mallmann, Jochen Böhle and Jürgen Matthäus: Einsatzgruppen in Poland: Presentation and documentation . Scientific Book Society, Stuttgart 2008, p. 157
  4. ↑ Peter Lieb: Conventional War or Nazi Weltanschauungskrieg - Warfare and Combating Partisans in France 1943/44 , Munich 2007, p. 65
  5. ↑ Peter Lieb: Conventional War or Nazi Weltanschauungskrieg - Warfare and Combating Partisans in France 1943/44 , Munich 2007, p. 66
  6. ↑ Hartmut Pulmer at www.dws-xip.pl
  7. ^ Bernhard Brunner: The France Complex. The National Socialist Crimes in France and the Justice of the Federal Republic of Germany . Wallstein, Göttingen 2004, p. 157
  8. ^ Bernhard Brunner: The France Complex. The National Socialist Crimes in France and the Justice of the Federal Republic of Germany . Wallstein, Göttingen 2004, p. 157ff.
personal data
SURNAME Pulmer, Hartmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pulmer, Hartmut Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, SS-Obersturmbannführer and Gestapo employee
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg in the Neumark
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1978
Place of death Bensheim