Heinrich Hannibal

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Heinrich Hannibal (born November 19, 1889 in Söllingen , † May 9, 1971 in Hamburg ) was an SS brigade leader , major general of the police and perpetrator of the Holocaust .

Life

He was the eldest son of the master shoemaker Heinrich Hannibal and his wife Sophie, née Hecht.

After Hannibal had attended elementary school in Söllingen until 1904, he attended the non-commissioned preschool in Neubreisach until 1907 and then the non-commissioned school in Jülich until 1909 . He stepped on April 1, 1909 as a sergeant in the 4th Lothringische Infantry Regiment. 136 of the Prussian army in Strasbourg one.

With this regiment he fought on the western and eastern fronts and in Romania during the First World War and was wounded three times. Awarded with both classes of the Iron Cross , Hannibal ended the war as a deputy officer.

After the demobilization of his regiment, he joined the 2nd Landess Rifle Division at the Voluntary Landess Rifle Corps until the end of March 1920. Hannibal was then taken over into the Provisional Reichswehr and served in the Reichswehr Infantry Regiment 104. On July 15, 1920, he was dismissed from military service as a lieutenant . He then switched to the security and protection police in Ohrdruf. Hannibal attended police schools in Burg, Düsseldorf and Magdeburg and then became section commander Bochum- Süd and from December 1935 worked as a department head for the regional president in Arnsberg . In 1937 he was given command of the Hamburg-Harburg police force .

Even before power was handed over to the National Socialists in 1933, Hannibal became a member of the NSDAP on February 1, 1932 ( membership number 952.252). On May 1, 1939, he was also accepted into the SS (SS no. 327.343).

After the beginning of the Second World War , Hannibal was from November 1939 to September 25, 1940 in command of the Police Recruiting Battalion 303 in Bremen . In the Russian campaign , Hannibal led the battalion until November 17, 1941. From July 1941, the battalion was used in the mass extermination of the conquered areas of Ukraine. At the beginning of September, police officers from 3rd Company shot 100 Jews in Cutnow, and at the end of September the battalion , which had meanwhile moved into Kiev, participated in the murder of 33,000 Jews in the Babyn Yar gorge .

From January 1942 Hannibal was section police leader in Cherson ( southern Russia ) and from April 1943 commander of the SS Police Rifle Regiment 31.

On August 23, 1944, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for his services within the combat group of Gottberg ( Army Group Center ) . The von Gottberg combat group was originally part of the " gang fighting units " and was responsible for numerous mass murders in Belarus . From June 1944 the unit was used as a front-line unit due to the high German losses in the course of the Soviet summer offensive (→ Operation Bagration ).

Subsequent investigations by the Federal Republican public prosecutor's offices were not able to uncover Hannibal's involvement in war crimes and bring him to justice.

literature

  • Stefan Klemp : Not determined. Police Battalions and the Post War Justice. A manual. Klartext, Essen 2005, ISBN 3-89861-381-X .
  • Dermot Bradley (ed.), Andreas Schulz , Günter Wegmann: The generals of the Waffen-SS and the police. The military careers of the generals, as well as the doctors, veterinarians, intendants, judges and ministerial officials with the rank of general. Volume 2: Hachtel – Kutschera. Biblio Verlag, Bissendorf 2005, ISBN 3-7648-2592-8 , pp. 35-38.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Klemp: “Not determined” , 2005, p. 235
  2. ↑ Stefan Klemp: "Not determined". 2nd edition, 2011, p. 63 ff.
  3. ↑ Veit Scherzer : Knight's Cross bearers 1939-1945. The holders of the Iron Cross of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and armed forces allied with Germany according to the documents of the Federal Archives. 2nd edition, Scherzers Militaer-Verlag, Ranis / Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2 , p. 365.
  4. ↑ Stefan Klemp: "Not determined". 2005, various sources in the register, p. 486.
personal data
SURNAME Hannibal, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hannibal, Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS Brigade Leader and Major General of the Police
DATE OF BIRTH November 19, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Söllingen
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1971
Place of death Hamburg