Hugo Armann

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Hugo Armann (born August 11, 1917 ; † May 1989 ) was a German teacher who was honored as Righteous Among the Nations .

Life

Armann grew up in a Protestant family in Rauenstein in Thuringia . He attended elementary school, then the agricultural vocational school in Schalkau and later the agricultural school in Oberlind. After graduating as a state-certified farmer , which Armann had passed with distinction, he was able to study at the college for teacher training in Braunschweig. He had to interrupt his training as a vocational school teacher because he was called up for military service in March 1940. On February 29, 1944, he was appointed as an extra-curricular teacher without an examination.

Armann was a member of the Hitler Youth from 1934 to mid-July 1935 ; he did not join the NSDAP .

Armann was assigned to the prisoner of war administration in France in 1940 . In February 1941 he received a marching order that finally took him to Warsaw , where he was confronted with the conditions in the ghetto . In 1941 he was mainly stationed in Minsk and was sick in the hospital for several months . From February 1942 he was employed in Baranavichy in the local office at the train station. He issued "place stamps" for the soldiers' vacation tickets and used his position to obtain discounts for his Jewish auxiliaries.

As a sergeant major in a unit for the organization of home holiday transports in Baranavichy, he saved Jewish people in 1942/43 by hiding six workers in his house and, after a few days, enabling them to escape with the help of Polish partisans . He also equipped them with ten rifles and ammunition. According to one estimate, Armanns' 35 to 40 Jews were saved through “direct and indirect aid”. For these acts of rescue he was honored as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in September 1988 .

Hugo Armann stayed in Baranavichy until mid-1944, when he was transferred to the Western Front. He was wounded in France and lived to see the end of the war in a hospital.

After the war Hugo Armann lived and worked as a teacher and headmaster in Detter in the Bad Kissingen district .

literature

  • Israel Gutman , Daniel Fraenkel, Jackob Borut (ed.): Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations - Germans and Austrians . Wallstein Verlag , Göttingen 2005, ISBN 3-89244-900-7 , pp. 60f. ( available on Google Books )
  • Olaf Meuther: Sergeant Hugo Armann's rescue deeds . In: Wolfram Wette, Detlev Bald (Ed.): Moral courage. Outraged, helpers and rescuers from the Wehrmacht, police and SS. Frankfurt / M. 2003, pp. 114-127.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Bert Hoppe, Hiltrud Glass (edit.): The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 (source collection) Volume 7: Soviet Union with annexed areas I - Occupied Soviet areas under German military administration, the Baltic States and Transnistria. Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-58911-5 , p. 40.
  2. Olaf Meuther: The saving acts of Sergeant Hugo Armann. In: Wolfram Wette, Detlev Bald (Ed.): Moral courage. Outraged, helpers and rescuers from the Wehrmacht, police and SS. Frankfurt / M. 2003, p. 125.