Herbert Hübner (SS member)

Herbert Huebner during the Nuremberg Trials

Herbert Hübner (born August 7, 1902 in Bad Salzschlirf ; † after 1951) was a German SS leader and convicted war criminal.

Life

After finishing school, Hübner completed an apprenticeship as a banker and then worked in this profession. He joined the Young German Order in 1921 and moved from there to the Bund Oberland in 1923 . In November 1923, Hübner took part in the Hitler putsch . From 1931 he was a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 947.027) and from 1932 of the SS (membership number 30.828). In the SS, Huebner rose to SS-Standartenführer in 1942 .

From 1936, Hübner worked in the Race and Settlement Main Office (RuSHA). At first he was an advisor to the RuSHA-Führer Südwest, until he succeeded him in 1938. After the outbreak of the Second World War , from the beginning of 1940 Hübner was head of the SS workforce in Loslau in the Wartheland (also Warthegau). Just one year later, he was in charge of the SS settlement staff in Posen and also the office of the Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Ethnicity in the area of the Higher SS and Police Leader in the Wartheland. From August 1942 to spring 1945 he worked as a RuSHA leader in the Wartheland.

After the end of the war, Huebner was interned and charged with 13 other accused during the Nuremberg Trials in the Race and Settlement Main Office of the SS on July 1, 1947. On March 10, 1948, Huebner was sentenced to fifteen years in prison. Huebner was found guilty of all three charges - crimes against humanity , war crimes, and membership in criminal organizations. Huebner had been sentenced for participating in evacuation and resettlement and for using Polish citizens for forced labor . On February 1, 1951, he was released from the Landsberg War Crimes Prison . Huebner later worked as a businessman in Bonn .

literature

Isabel Heinemann: “Race, Settlement, German Blood”: The Race and Settlement Main Office of the SS and the racial reorganization of Europe . Wallstein, Göttingen 2003 ISBN 3-89244-623-7
Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Isabel Heinemann: "Rasse, Siedlung, deutsches Blut": The SS Race and Settlement Main Office and the racial reorganization of Europe, Göttingen 2003, p. 620
↑ Herbert Hübner on www.dws-xip.pl
↑ ^a ^b Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 273.
↑ United Nations War Crimes Commission (Ed.): Law reports of trials of war criminals, selected and prepared by the United Nations War Crimes Commission. 3 volume, William S. Hein Publishing, Buffalo (New York) 1997, ISBN 1-57588-403-8 (reprint of the original edition from 1947 to 1949), p. 31.
↑ Isabel Heinemann: "Rasse, Siedlung, deutsches Blut": The SS Race and Settlement Main Office and the racial reorganization of Europe, Göttingen 2003, p. 573.

personal data
SURNAME	Huebner, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German SS leader and convicted war criminal
DATE OF BIRTH	August 7, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bad Salzschlirf
DATE OF DEATH	after 1951

[Heinemann622-1] Isabel Heinemann: "Rasse, Siedlung, deutsches Blut": The SS Race and Settlement Main Office and the racial reorganization of Europe, Göttingen 2003, p. 620

[2] Herbert Hübner on www.dws-xip.pl

[Klee273-3] Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 273.

[4] United Nations War Crimes Commission (Ed.): Law reports of trials of war criminals, selected and prepared by the United Nations War Crimes Commission. 3 volume, William S. Hein Publishing, Buffalo (New York) 1997, ISBN 1-57588-403-8 (reprint of the original edition from 1947 to 1949), p. 31.

[Heinemann573-5] Isabel Heinemann: "Rasse, Siedlung, deutsches Blut": The SS Race and Settlement Main Office and the racial reorganization of Europe, Göttingen 2003, p. 573.