Heinrich Lohl

Heinrich Lohl as a witness at the Nuremberg trials

Heinrich Lohl (born August 5, 1901 in Oldenburg , † after 1947 ) was a German SS functionary. Lohl was from 1938 to 1945 head of Office III of the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle .

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Lohl grew up in Wilhelmshaven , where his father ran a hotel. From 1907 to 1922 he attended the local high school, which he graduated with the Abitur . Then he did a commercial apprenticeship at the export house Robert Hintze in Hamburg until 1924 . From 1924 he studied economics and law in Tübingen , Hamburg , Innsbruck and Kiel . He broke off his studies in 1929 without a degree.

In November 1929 Lohl got a job at the Oldenburgische Spar- und Leihbank in Wilhelmshaven . In 1935 he moved to the Sparkasse in Wilhelmshaven.

On July 15, 1937, Lohl, who had been a member of the NSDAP since 1932 ( membership number 1,261,440), was called up to act as administrative manager of the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle (Vomi) through the mediation of his friend Hermann Behrends . There he led Amt III (finance, economic and asset management). In this capacity, he managed the department's material and personnel budget (office costs, travel expenses, salaries for employees, etc.) and the brokerage of grants for the German ethnic groups abroad. In 1938, as a result of his position as an employee of the Vomi, Lohl joined the SS (SS no. 309.071), in which he last held the rank of SS Obersturmbannführer . In the Waffen-SS he received the rank of rifleman or as a functionary ("specialist") later that of Obersturmbannführer F.

At the end of World War II , Lohl was taken prisoner by the Americans. In the following years he was questioned as a witness during the Nuremberg Trials .

literature

• Hans Adolf Jacobsen: National Socialist Foreign Policy, 1933–1938 , 1968.

Web links

• Institute for Contemporary History : Minutes of an interrogation of Lohl in 1946 in the IFZ archive (PDF; 3.0 MB)