Hermann Höfle (SS member, 1898)

Hermann Höfle (born September 12, 1898 in Augsburg , † December 9, 1947 in Bratislava ) was a German SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS and the police , who from September 1943 as Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) center and from September 1944 worked as HSSPF Slovakia.

Life

Höfle, the son of a post office clerk, took part in the First World War as a member of the 8th Bavarian Infantry Regiment "Grand Duke Friedrich II of Baden" and later as an aircraft observer from the end of August 1916 . After the end of the war he belonged to the Freikorps Epp and the military association Reichskriegsflagge . On November 9, 1923, he took part in the Hitler putsch . Höfle was an officer in the Reichswehr from 1920 to the end of July 1934 and left it as a major in the reserve. In 1931 he passed the diploma interpreter examination for the Spanish language. While he was still active in the Reichswehr, he was appointed to the SA on November 9, 1933 . b. V. - Standartenführer appointed.

From August 1934 to January 1937 he was the leader of the National Socialist Motor Vehicle Corps (NSKK) in Munich, from 1935 to 1939 head of the NSKK's Reichsführer-School and from August 1937 inspector of training in corps leadership. During the Second World War he led the Motor Group East. He also headed the NSKK transport companies.

, The 1937 Member of Höfle in May NSDAP ( membership number is 3924970), entered at the request of the Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler in July 1943, the SS (SS no. 463093) at. From the middle of September 1943 to the beginning of October 1944 he was Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) center based in Braunschweig and from the end of September 1944 to the beginning of May 1945 HSSPF Slovakia . Höfle was primarily responsible for the suppression of the Slovak National Uprising in autumn 1944.

After the war ended , Höfle and Hanns Ludin were indicted in Bratislava in 1947 , sentenced to death and hanged on December 9, 1947. The literature also states that he died in custody on December 3, 1947.

family

Höfle had been married since 1925 and had two daughters. His older daughter Helga (* 1929) emigrated to New Zealand after the war and published her memory book Strawberries with the Fuhrer: A Journey from the Third Reich to New Zealand (2000) under the name Helga Tiscenko .

Awards

Höfles Nazi ranks
date	rank
November 1933	SA standard leader
August 1934	NSKK standard leader
April 1935	NSKK Oberführer
January 1936	NSKK Brigade Leader
September 1937	NSKK group leader
January 1939	NSKK Obergruppenführer
July 1943	SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police
April 1944	SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Police
July 1944	SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen SS

Iron Cross (1914) 2nd and 1st class
Bavarian Military Order of Merit IV class with swords
Blood Order , November 9, 1933 (No. 1491)
Spain cross in bronze
Clasp for the Iron Cross, 2nd and 1st class
War Merit Cross (1939) 2nd and 1st class with swords
SS skull ring
Iron honor shield of the Luftgau XI

literature

Ruth Bettina Birn : The Higher SS and Police Leaders. Himmler's representative in the Reich and in the occupied territories. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf, 1986. ISBN 3-7700-0710-7 .
Dorothee Hochstetter: Motorization and Volksgemeinschaft: The National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK) , 1931-1945, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-486-57570-5 .
Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 . (Updated 2nd edition).
Wolfgang Venohr : Uprising for Czechoslovakia. The Slovak struggle for freedom of 1944 . Christian Wegner-Verlag, Hamburg 1969.

Web links

Literature by and about Hermann Höfle in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Venohr, Aufstand , p. 313.
↑ See Dorothee Hochstetter: Motorisierung und Volksgemeinschaft: Das Nationalozialistische Kraftfahrkorps (NSKK) , 1931–1945, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag 2005, p. 135.
↑ ^a ^b Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 260.
↑ Venohr, Aufstand , p. 204 ff.
^ Venohr, Aufstand , p. 283.
↑ Ruth Bettina Birn: The higher SS and police leaders. Himmler's representative in the Reich and in the occupied territories. , Düsseldorf 1986, p. 336
↑ ^a ^b Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres , Mittler & Sohn Verlag, Berlin, p. 162

personal data
SURNAME	Höfle, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German General of the Waffen-SS and Police and HSSPF
DATE OF BIRTH	September 12, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH	augsburg
DATE OF DEATH	December 9, 1947
Place of death	Bratislava

[1] Venohr, Aufstand , p. 313.

[2] See Dorothee Hochstetter: Motorisierung und Volksgemeinschaft: Das Nationalozialistische Kraftfahrkorps (NSKK) , 1931–1945, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag 2005, p. 135.

[Klee260-3] Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 260.

[4] Venohr, Aufstand , p. 204 ff.

[5] Venohr, Aufstand , p. 283.

[6] Ruth Bettina Birn: The higher SS and police leaders. Himmler's representative in the Reich and in the occupied territories. , Düsseldorf 1986, p. 336

[Rangliste-7] Ranking list of the German Reichsheeres , Mittler & Sohn Verlag, Berlin, p. 162