Heinrich Illers

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Heinrich Karl August Illers (born May 12, 1908 in Braunschweig ; † December 29, 1986 in Norden ) was a German lawyer , SS-Hauptsturmführer in the security service and, after 1945, President of the Senate of the Lower Saxony State Social Court .

Life

Career in the Nazi state

Illers was awarded a doctorate in 1932 at the University of Göttingen with the dissertation “Advance Disposals for Future Matters”. jur. PhD. He was then a government councilor at the Braunschweig State Ministry. Illers joined the NSDAP in 1932 . During the German occupation of France , as SS-Hauptsturmführer, he was deputy commander of the Security Police and SD Paris , where he headed Department IV, which was responsible for countering and combating sabotage . The commanding officer was SS-Obersturmbannführer Kurt Lischka . Illers was involved in the preparation of hostage shootings in France and in the last deportation of 1,600 people on August 18, 1944.

After the Second World War

Until his retirement in September 1972, Illers was President of the Senate at the Lower Saxony State Social Court in Celle . He then lived as Senate President a. D. in Krummhörn . In contrast to his former superior Lischka, who was sentenced to ten years in prison in 1980, Illers remained undisturbed until the end of his life. In 1972 he spoke to journalists about his activities as SS leader: I cannot speak of shared responsibility. You can't hold the gunner who shot responsible.

Fonts

  • The right to dowry, especially regarding bankruptcy and tax law Ask. (= Dissertation, University of Würzburg) Würzburg 1925, OCLC 71869488
  • Advance dispositions about future things. (= Dissertation, University of Göttingen) Gutenberg, Braunschweig 1932, OCLC 34198602

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bernhard Brunner: The France Complex: The National Socialist Crimes in France. Wallstein Verlag 2004, p. 55.
  2. ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, p. 278.
  3. ↑ Secret note . In: Der Spiegel . No. 43 , 1972, p. 110 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Illers, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and SS-Hauptsturmführer
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1986
Place of death north