Heinrich Hamann (police officer)

Heinrich Hamann

Heinrich Hamann (born September 1, 1908 in Bordesholm ; † April 16, 1993 in Bad-Neuenahr ) was a German police officer and SS-Hauptsturmführer .

Life

The independent businessman Heinrich Hamann joined the NSDAP (membership number 647.427) and the SS (membership number 33.531) in 1931 . He got to the SD main office via the auxiliary police and the SS headquarters in Hamburg . There he was in charge of the registry . In 1937 he came to the Gestapo as a detective commissioner candidate (KK candidate) . At the end of 1939 he became head of the border police commissioner (GPK) of Neu-Sandez ( Nowy Sącz in Polish ). At that time he was SS-Obersturmführer . In 1940 he passed the KK course. He stayed in Nowy Sącz / Neu-Sandez until mid-1943. After a short stay in Jasło , he worked for the security police in Krakow from autumn 1943 .

Married to a German woman who was employed as a typist in the Gestapo in Cracow, Hamann began a relationship with a prisoner. Because she was a Jewish Polish woman, he was denounced to the SD for racial disgrace , whereupon he handed her a Volksdeutsche identity card and presented her as his confidante . For this she was arrested by the Polish authorities after the end of the war. Released on the occasion of an amnesty, she emigrated to Argentina, where she ran a hotel.

War crimes in New Sandez (Nowy Sacz)

Hamann remained undetected as a war criminal in the Federal Republic of Germany from 1945 until the end of the 1950s. In a court case in 1960, Hamann confirmed on May 4th that the meaning of the description of special treatment in the orders for the extermination of the Jews was to be equated with "liquidate". The Bochum regional court sentenced Heinrich Hamann to life imprisonment in 1966. He was released from prison in the mid-1980s. Since 1985 he lived in a nursing home in Bad Neuenahr and died there in April 1993.

The murder of hundreds of Jews, political opponents of the regime and other innocent people under his command has been clearly proven by the judiciary. Subject of the trial was the shooting of Jews in New Sącz and the liquidation of the local ghetto in August 1942. In this at least 15,000 Jews to the Belzec extermination camp deported .

In the Main Office of the Security Police in Krakow

Heinrich Hamann is described by Jan Karski in the book One against the Holocaust as a life-threatening opponent. Jan Karski was only able to bring his information about the Holocaust in Poland to the Western powers because he narrowly escaped Hamann under extremely difficult circumstances.

literature

• E. Thomas Wood, Stanislaw M. Jankowski: One against the Holocaust: Jan Karski - as a courier on a secret mission. Komet, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-89836-496-8 .
• Klaus-Michael Mallmann : Heinrich Hamann, head of the Neu-Sandez border police station . In: Careers of Violence. National Socialist perpetrator biographies. Ed. Mallmann & Gerhard Paul (historians) . Series: Publications of the Ludwigsburg Research Center at the University of Stuttgart, 2nd WBG 2004, 2nd rev. 2005, special edition. WBG 2011 & Primus, Darmstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3-89678-726-2 , pp. 104-114.

Web links

• Report by Rena Anisfeld on the horrors of Heinrich Hamann in Neu Sandez (English translation from Yiddish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gerhard Paul: The perpetrators of the Shoah: fanatical National Socialists or completely normal Germans? Wallstein, 2002, ISBN 3-89244-503-6 , pp. 113.2 ( Google Books [accessed June 2, 2009]).
2. ↑ Bård Kart Veit: The War Children of the World, Report 2, . 2002, ISBN 82-996703-1-4 , pp. 86.8 . ( PDF ( Memento from January 26, 2004 in the Internet Archive )). The War Children of the World, Report 2, ( Memento of the original from January 26, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Kogon, Eugen, Langbein, Rückerl a. a. (Ed.): National Socialist mass killings by poison gas. Fischer 4353, Frankfurt 1995, p. 19.
4. ↑ 75 lat temu region opuścił 'kat Sądecczyzny'. Dokładnie 75 lat temu placówką Gestapo w Nowym Sączu przestał kierować Heinrich Hamann - "kat Sądecczyzny", odpowiedzialny za śmierć nawet 25 tysięcy osób w regionie. “Sądecki Sztetl” opublikował niedawno nieznane zdjęcia oprawcy, skazanego przez niemiecki sąd na dożywocie, który zmarł w 1993 roku. August 15, 2018, accessed December 31, 2018 (Polish). 
5. ^ Klaus-Michael Mallmann: Heinrich Hamann, head of the Neu-Sandez border police station . In: Careers of Violence . National Socialist perpetrator biographies. Ed. Mallmann & Gerhard Paul. Series: Publications by the Ludwigsburg Research Center at the University of Stuttgart, 2nd edition, WBG, Darmstadt, 2004, p. 111.
6. ↑ Raphael Mahler: ספר סאנץ / Sefer Sanṭs . In: Steven Spielberg digital Yiddish library, no.13907 . National Yiddish Book Cente, Amherst 2001 (Yiddish).