Heinrich Buscher (SS member)

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Heinrich Buscher as a witness at the Nuremberg trials.

Heinrich Buscher (born July 11, 1911 in Nordenham , † October 9, 1954 in Westerstede ) was a German SS leader and witness at the Nuremberg trials .

Live and act

Heinrich Buscher was the son of the architect and mayor Friedrich Buscher and his wife Hilke, née van Dieken.

After graduating from high school in Oldenburg , he studied economics at the University of Marburg. On March 1, 1931, Buscher joined the NSDAP and the SA . He soon embarked on a career as a functionary in the party: on August 7, 1933, he was appointed head of the Gauamtswalterschule Haus Osterberg near Loy. On July 20, 1934, he was appointed district inspector for training in the Weser-Ems district. He then held office until May 1936 as the district training manager for the Weser-Ems district.

On August 12, 1939, Buscher was called up for military service as a lieutenant in the reserve. From January 4, 1940 to July 15, 1940, he served as Legation Councilor for the Foreign Office's representative at the Army High Command (AOK) 18. He then held the same position at AOK 9, before being made available to the German Embassy in Paris in autumn 1940 . There he worked until October 1942 as a clerk for active propaganda in the information center of the embassy.

From October 18, 1942 to July 6, 1943, Buscher acted as regional training manager of the Weser-Ems Gau of the NSDAP and then, with the official title of Senior Area Leader, as the representative of the Führer’s representative for the entire intellectual and ideological education of the NSDAP in the Weser-Ems Gau.

In 1944, Buscher reported to the Waffen SS in order to fight with the 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitler Youth" at the front until the end of the war , most recently as SS-Obersturmführer . At the end of the war, Buscher was captured by the Allies. As a result, he was interrogated as a witness during the Nuremberg Trials .

In 1949 he founded a textile mail order business in Oldenburg and was also active as a writer under the pseudonym "Klaas Kunst". Around 1950 the family moved from Oldenburg to Bad Zwischenahn .

His daughter is the author and teacher Hilka Koch , née Buscher, who is critical of her father's Nazi past and who advocates reconciliation between Jews and Germans.

literature

  • Joachim Lilla (edit.): The deputy Gauleiter and the representation of the Gauleiter of the NSDAP in the "Third Reich" . Ed .: Federal Archives , Koblenz (=  materials from the Federal Archives . Issue 13). Wirtschaftsverlag NW, Bremerhaven 2003, ISBN 3-86509-020-6 , p. 9-10 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of witnesses at the Nuremberg trials (PDF; 186 kB).
  2. ↑ See information from and about Hilka Koch, née Buscher, in: Relationship crisis. Home in uncertain times. (PDF; 86 kB) Radio feature by Rosemarie Bölts. Deutschlandradio Kultur , January 28, 2013, pp. 10–11 , accessed on January 11, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Andreas Berger: A Jewish woman and the daughter of an SS man want to free themselves from hatred. In: braunschweiger-zeitung.de . March 15, 2005, accessed January 2, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Buscher, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Nordenham
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1954
Place of death Westerstede