Hermann Hackmann

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Hermann Hackmann (April 1947)

Hermann Hackmann (born November 11, 1913 in Osnabrück ; † August 20, 1994 in Uslar ) was a German SS-Hauptsturmführer and German protective custody camp leader in the Majdanek concentration camp and as a report leader in the Buchenwald concentration camp .

Life

Hackmann, the son of a foreman, began an apprenticeship as a bricklayer after graduating from school in 1930, which he completed in 1933. He had been a member of the SS since 1933 .

From August 1934, Hackmann was a member of the SS guards at the Esterwegen concentration camp . After this concentration camp was dissolved, he was transferred to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp , where he was first employed as a block leader and later as a report leader in the cell construction. In 1937 he became a report leader in the Buchenwald concentration camp and in the spring of 1939 an adjutant to the local camp commandant Karl Otto Koch . At the beginning of 1941 Hackmann was transferred to the staff of the concentration camp inspection (IKL). He was known in Buchenwald by the nickname "Jonny". In August 1941 Hackmann became Koch's representative in the construction of the Majdanek concentration camp, where he also held the post of protective custody camp leader.

In autumn 1942 Hackmann joined the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division "Prinz Eugen" , a division of the Waffen SS .

In August 1943 he was arrested for embezzlement of property and murder in Buchenwald concentration camp following an investigation by Konrad Morgen and sentenced to death twice by an SS court in Kassel on June 29, 1944 . In March 1945 he was released from the SS and the Dachau police in the Dachau concentration camp . After the war ended, he was arrested in 1945. In the main Buchenwald trial , which took place as part of the Dachau trials , a US military court sentenced Hackmann to death again on August 14, 1947, but the death penalty was commuted to life imprisonment in 1948. After his release from the Landsberg War Crimes Prison in March 1955 , Hackmann worked as a businessman and travel agent for a furniture company in Uslar until he retired in 1976.

On June 30, 1981, he was sentenced to ten years in prison by the Düsseldorf Regional Court in the third Majdanek trial for joint accessory to the murder of at least 141 people. Hackmann died in Uslar in August 1994.

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  1. ↑ a b Holm Kirsten, Wulf Kirsten : Voices from Buchenwald. A reader. , Göttingen 2002, p. 38
  2. ↑ Harry Stein, Buchenwald Memorial (ed.): Buchenwald Concentration Camp 1937–1945 , volume accompanying the permanent historical exhibition, Göttingen 1999, p. 308
  3. ↑ a b c d Ulrike Weckel, Edgar Wolfrum (ed.): "Beasts" and "Receivers of Orders": Women and Men in Nazi Trials after 1945 , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2003, p. 231
  4. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 215.
  5. ↑ Heinrich Hackmann's life data  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www.buchenwald.de@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.buchenwald.de  
personal data
SURNAME Hackmann, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German protective custody camp leader in Majdanek concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 1994
Place of death Uslar