Hellmuth Reinhard

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Hellmuth Reinhard , maiden name Hermann Gustav Hellmuth Reinhard Patzschke (born July 24, 1911 in Unterwerschen , Weißenfels district ; † after 1970) was a German lawyer and SS leader in the Gestapo .

Life

Patzschke completed his school career at the Leipzig König-Albert-Gymnasium with the Abitur and then studied law and political science at the universities of Vienna , Berlin and Leipzig . He finished his studies in January 1934 with the first state examination in law. He completed his legal clerkship at the Saxon courts, at the Leipzig public prosecutor's office and at the SD main office . He passed the second state examination in law in January 1938. At the end of the 1930s, he had his last name changed from Patzschke to Reinhard.

Already during his school days he belonged to the NS student union and during his student days the NS student union . While still a student, after the transfer of power to the National Socialists in March 1933, he joined the SS (SS no. 121.174) and in May 1933 the NSDAP ( membership number 2,382,157). As a member of the SD , he was accepted into the security police after the beginning of the Second World War in September 1939 .

From August to November 1941 he headed the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Amsterdam for the commander of the Security Police and the SD (BdS) . At the end of January 1942, he succeeded Werner Knab in German-occupied Norway, initially on a provisional basis and then officially head of the Gestapo under the BdS Norway with its Oslo office . In this role he played a key role in the deportation of Norwegian Jews to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp .

“For special reasons I can only announce today that on November 26th, 1942 a ship transport of about 7-900 male and female Jews of all ages will be carried out from Oslo to Stettin. The crossing will likely take about 3 days. Since the ship made available by the Navy is needed again immediately after its arrival in Stettin, I ask that you prepare for the disembarkation and accommodation of the Jews immediately after their arrival. The Jews are to be brought to Auschwitz. "

- Reinhard in a telex to the Gestapo in Stettin on November 25, 1942

It was a transport with 532 Norwegian Jews who were shipped from Oslo to Stettin on the steamer Danube . Of these, 346 people were gassed immediately in Auschwitz, the rest were classified as fit for work - only nine of the prisoners survived the end of the Second World War.

In November 1943 he received the War Merit Cross, First Class with Swords. In the same year he reached the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer . At the beginning of February 1945 he was transferred to Reichenberg in the Sudetenland , where he was acting head of the local Gestapo and represented the local commander of the security police and the SD (KdS).

At the end of the war, Reinhard went into hiding in Schleswig-Holstein and took his birth name again. After he was pronounced dead in 1951, his wife remarried. He lived in Baden-Württemberg , where he eventually became the head of a specialist legal publisher. After an investigation, his identity was revealed and in December 1964 he was arrested. Because of his managerial work in the Gestapo in Oslo and Reichenberg, preliminary proceedings were initiated against him in Hamburg, Frankenthal, Nuremberg-Fürth and Baden-Baden. The Baden-Baden jury court sentenced him to five years imprisonment for his involvement in the deportation of Norwegian Jews in 1967. This judgment was overturned by the Federal Court of Justice in 1969 due to deficiencies in the reasons for the judgment. The Karlsruhe Regional Court acquitted him in 1970 because the facts could no longer be clearly reconstructed. In Norway, the acquittal was met with indignation.

Reinhard's alias Patzschke's short vita was listed in the GDR Brown Book .

literature

  • Stein Ugelvik Larsen, Beatrice Sandberg, Volker Dahm (eds.): Reports from Norway 1940–1945: The secret situation reports of the commander of the Security Police and the SD in Norway , Oldenbourg, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-55891-3 . (Short biographies, p. 77 f.)
  • Ernst Klee : Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices, victims and what became of them. A dictionary of persons . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-039333-3 . , P. 332.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quoted in Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices, victims and what became of them. An encyclopedia of persons , Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 332.
  2. ↑ Astrid Hygen Meyer: Aldri mer November 26th. Etterforskningen av massedrapene July 22, 2011 has top priority. Men forskerne ser ut til å ha glemt November 26, 1942. November 26, 2011, accessed on June 12, 2018 (Norwegian).
  3. ^ Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices, victims and what became of them. An encyclopedia of persons , Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 332, p. 332.
  4. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 488
  5. ^ Norbert Podewin (Ed.): Braunbuch - Reprint of the 1968 edition . Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-360-01033-7 , p. 98.
personal data
SURNAME Reinhard, Hellmuth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reinhard Patzschke, Hermann Gustav Hellmuth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and SS leader with the Gestapo
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Unterwerschen , Weißenfels district
DATE OF DEATH after 1970