Hubert Leclaire

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Hubert Wilhelm Leclaire (born May 30, 1906 in Mariadorf ; † unknown) was a German police officer and, as SS-Sturmscharführer, head of the detection service of the political department of the Buchenwald concentration camp .

Life

Leclaire entered the police force in Münster in 1926 as a police candidate. After completing a course at the Provincial Riding School in Krefeld , Leclaire became a criminal secretary member of the Aachen police at the mounted department. From the beginning of January 1938 he worked for the Aachen criminal police . At the beginning of June 1939, Leclaire was transferred to the Buchenwald Concentration Camp to the Political Department and there, as head of the identification service, was subordinate to Wilhelm Frerichs . Leclaire was greatly feared among the concentration camp prisoners because of his mistreatment during interrogation. Eugen Kogon , prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp, reports the following:

“In the middle of the night, Detective Leclaire from Political Affairs came in. The inmate [tortured and naked] was brought to consciousness with cold water and brought before him. To refresh the memory, Leclaire first gave a few blows to the head with the bull pizzle . You are well aware of the fact that you will never get out of here alive, don't you? And if you lie, you will get lashed until you laugh! "

In 1945, Leclaire moved to the criminal police department at the Thuringia Security Police . On December 12, 1945, the last head of the Weimar State Police Station, Hans Helmut Wolff , testified that Leclaire was involved in the shooting of three residents of Neuern shortly before the US Army invaded .

After the end of the war, Leclaire went into hiding and lived in different places under the pseudonym Herbert Mäder . His wife, Marianne Leclaire b. Schweinsburg therefore filed for divorce in Weimar in 1948. Leclaire moved from France back to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1952 and again took the name Hubert Leclaire. From the beginning of October 1954, Leclaire was employed as a criminal secretary at the district police authority in Düsseldorf and then as a criminal master in Bochum . Together with Martin Sommer , the executioner of Buchenwald, Leclaire had tortured prisoners to the point of unconsciousness. That is why he was charged. In November 1958, the First Large Criminal Chamber in Düsseldorf initially pronounced the 52-year-old criminal secretary Leclaire "guilty in only three cases". In the end, however, there was an acquittal. Leclaire moved from Bochum to the district police authority in Aachen in 1959.

literature

  • David A. Hackett: The Buchenwald Report: Report on the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar , Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-60356-3 , p. 61
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich : Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8
  • Marlis Gräfe, Bernhard Post and Andreas Schneider: The Secret State Police in the NS Gau Thuringia 1933–1945. Sources on the history of Thuringia . II. Half volume, published by: State Center for Political Education Thuringia , unchanged new edition 2005, ISBN 3-931426-83-1 . (pdf)
  • Horst Gobrecht, Hans Eiden, Education and Solidarity Organization Anna Seghers e. V .: That was Buchenwald , Pahl-Rugenstein Verlag, 1995, ISBN 978-3-891-44204-3 , p. 246
  • Walter Bartel (Red.): Buchenwald. Reminder and obligation. Documents and reports. Published on behalf of the Fédération Internationale des Résistants, des Victimes et des Prisonniers du Fascisme (FIR) by the International Buchenwald Committee and the Committee of Antifascist Resistance Fighters in the GDR. Röderbergverlag, Frankfurt am Main 1960. 621 pages, with picture part and storage plan, Leclaire see: pp. 60, 457, 509

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Marlis Gräfe, Bernhard Post and Andreas Schneider: The Secret State Police in the NS Gau Thuringia 1933 - 1945. Sources on the history of Thuringia . II. Half volume, published by: State Center for Political Education Thuringia, unchanged new edition 2005, pp. 553f.
  2. ↑ in The SS State . Quoted in: Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich : Who was what before and after 1945. , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 360f.
  3. ^ Marlis Gräfe, Bernhard Post and Andreas Schneider: The Secret State Police in the NS Gau Thuringia 1933 - 1945. Sources on the history of Thuringia . II. Half volume, published by: State Center for Political Education Thuringia, unchanged new edition 2005, p. 526.
  4. ↑ Landesverlag Thüringen, 1948: Government Gazette for the State of Thuringia , p. 78
  5. ↑ Union of Wood and Plastics, main board, 1958: Holzarbeiter Zeitung , p. 55
  6. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 360.
personal data
SURNAME Leclaire, Hubert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leclaire, Hubert Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German head of the political department in Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen concentration camps
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Mariadorf
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century