Hugo Grüner

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Hugo Grüner (born June 7, 1895 in Rötenbach ; † July 6, 1971 declared dead) was a German regional politician and convicted Nazi war criminal.

Life

Nazi career

Hugo Grüner was a trained mechanic and participant in the First World War and was employed there as head radio operator on the battleship SMS Helgoland . After the end of the war he joined the military association Kyffhäuserbund in Rötenbach, whose members were opponents of the Versailles Treaty and supporters of the monarchy. In addition, he became a member of the Sturmabteilung Hitler Oberbaden and in 1925 joined the radical organization Damm , a sub- organization of the Escherich organization . In 1931 he became a party member of the NSDAP , local group Löffingen in Gau Baden , membership number 729772. He ran a metal screw factory in Neustadt until its bankruptcy in 1932 and then worked as a sawmill. In 1934 he was appointed mayor of Rötenbach, and from 1937 to the district leader in Müllheim , where he decisively on 9 November 1938 at the acts of Kristallnacht and the demolition of the synagogue of Sulzburg was involved.

War crimes

On October 7, 1944, four members of the crew of a downed British bomber were arrested by police at the Rheinwehr near Märkt . Grüner came to them and, according to testimony and the court ruling, shot the four men by hand by shooting them in the back. After the war ended in 1945, he was arrested and charged by French occupiers. In the so-called Alsace Trial from April 3 to May 3, 1946, the case was heard in a French court in Strasbourg and Grüner was sentenced to death. The murder case and the chain of command connected with it were also part of the 46th day of the trial in Nuremberg on January 30, 1946.

In 1947 he managed to escape from the Recklinghausen internment camp after he had been handed over to the British occupying powers by the French authorities. Since then, there has been no reliable information about his whereabouts or death. On December 15, 1947, the Freiburg regional court convicted in absentia that he was responsible for the main mastermind behind the actions of November 9 in Sulzburg. His family had him legally declared dead in 1971, retroactively to December 31, 1946. Hugo Grüner was married and had four children.

literature

  • Bernd Hainmüller / Jost Grosspietsch: Hugo Grüner: District leader and aviator in the Markgräflerland . In: Wolfgang Proske (ed.): Perpetrators helpers free riders. Nazi victims from the south of what is now Baden-Württemberg, vol. 9, Gerstetten: Kugelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-945893-10-4 , pp. 119-132.
  • Edgar Baßler: "... my fight is up to the extreme" Hugo Grüner: National Socialist, four-time aviator, escaped criminal. In: Das Markgräflerland 2015, Volume I, 2015, pp. 173 to 193.
  • Johnpeter Horst Grill: The Nazi movement in Baden, 1920–1945 , Univ. of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC 1983, ISBN 978-0-8078-1472-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nazi War Crimes Trials: Alsace Trial. Jewish Virtual Library, accessed December 3, 2018 .
  2. ^ The trial of the main war criminals before the International Military Court in Nuremberg. In: Zeno.org. Retrieved December 4, 2018 .
  3. ^ Sibylle Höschele: Sulzburg with Staufen im Breisgau. In: Alemannia Judaica. Retrieved December 3, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Greener, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Nazi regional politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedenweiler-Rötenbach
DATE OF DEATH 20th century