Heinz Tangermann

Heinz Tangermann (born April 25, 1912 in Dalherda ; † March 28, 1999 in Bad Hersfeld ) was a German SS-Untersturmführer , part of the commando leader of Einsatzkommando 9 of Einsatzgruppe B and a convicted war criminal .

Life

Tangermann was the son of a forester. He attended high school in Hersfeld and Eisenach . In 1927 he passed the Abitur. In Eisenach he completed an apprenticeship as a lathe operator until 1930, but could not find a job afterwards. From 1929 to 1930 he was a member of the Hitler Youth . From March to August 1930 he was a member of the SA , from which he switched to the SS . In November 1930 he joined the NSDAP . From June to August 1933 he was employed in the SS labor camp Trügleben and then until April 1934 with the SS airfield guard in Gotha . He then worked as a lathe operator and welder at various companies before moving to the Gestapo in Dessau as a detective in December 1935 . In 1938 he was seconded to the Gestapo in Bad Nauheim .

In the spring of 1941 he was sent to Düben in Saxony and assigned to Einsatzkommando 9 of Einsatzgruppe B. As the leader of the partial command in Lepel in February 1942, he is said to have organized and directed the shooting of at least 1,100 Jews in the ghetto there. With his sub-command, he took part in "Jewish actions" in Druja, Braslaw and another location in the Glebokie regional commissioner in Belarus . From October 1943 to April 1944 he headed the branch office of the KdS Lublin in Radzyn . After his assignment in Radzyn, he was assigned to the zbV 27 command in autumn 1944, which was used to suppress the Slovak national uprising. The men of Kommando zbV 27 murdered at least 158 ​​people and deported over 110 to Auschwitz and from there to Ravensbrück .

In March 1945, he said he was sent to a hospital in Dessau . He later fled with his wife to Hersfeld, where he was arrested by the Americans in December 1945 and taken to the Darmstadt internment camp . In 1948 he was released from internment. On June 21, 1948, the Spruchkammer classified him in group III of the incriminated. He then found a job, first as a lathe operator, then as a technical employee at the company Maschinenbau Kupfermühle in Bad Hersfeld. Investigations against him were initiated in 1962. He was arrested on February 15, 1965. The Berlin Regional Court sentenced him on 6 May 1966 to murder in the case of the killing of the ghetto inhabitants in Lepel to 6 years in prison. After his parole in September 1969, he worked as a fitter for his former employer in Bad Hersfeld until his retirement in 1976.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Christina Ullrich: "I don't feel like a murderer" - The integration of Nazi perpetrators in post-war society , Darmstadt, 2011, pp. 274–276.
2. ↑ Bert Hoppe (edit.): The persecution and murder of the European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 (source collection) Volume 8: Soviet Union with annexed areas II . Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-486-78119-9 , p. 313

literature

• Christina Ullrich: "I don't feel like a murderer" - The integration of Nazi perpetrators into post-war society . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt, 2011, ISBN 978-3-534-23802-6 .