Johann Hack

Johann Hans Josef Hack named Hans Hack (* 19 December 1898 in Ripsdorf ; † 1978 in Kleve ) was a German politician ( KPD / NSDAP / FDP ) and Mayor of the Nazi era and during the Second World War in German-occupied Poland as District Chief active.

Life

Hack attended a Catholic high school and took part in World War I as a soldier from 1914 to 1918 . From 1919, he completed an internship with the administration in Mülheim an der Ruhr and stood in this city from 1918 to 1921 an anti Spartakist Einwohnerwehr ago. Hack entered the police force in 1919 and worked for the protection police in Bochum and Hagen . In 1923 Hack, who had previously completed a course to become a commissioner in Recklinghausen , left the police service. The background was supposedly the passing on of police internals to the KPD. Hack then worked for the German Association of Officials (DBB), where he became secretary in Westphalia and the Rhineland in 1921 and a year later he became secretary for propaganda and organization at the DBB at the Berlin headquarters. During this time, Hack attended economics seminars at the University of Berlin . Afterwards Hack was employed as a worker in the Saar area and was committed to the reintegration of this area into the German Empire .

Hack joined the KPD in 1923 and served for this party from 1924 as city councilor and parliamentary group leader in Barmen . Hack also became a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Rhine Province and was active as General Secretary of International Workers Aid in Düsseldorf . He also worked as a journalist. Hack, who had already left the KPD in 1927, finally broke with communism in the summer of 1928 after a trip to the Soviet Union . From 1930 to 1931 he was a member of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold , but was not accepted into the SPD due to his previous KPD membership . Professionally, he finally worked in the silver trade . He then joined the NSDAP and SA in 1932 . A year earlier he had already worked on a fee basis for the Völkischer Beobachter , among others . Hack quickly made a career in the NSDAP despite his communist past, which was also known to his new party comrades. In 1933, Hack became the managing director of the NSDAP parliamentary group in Augsburg's city ​​council, and he also held the position of adjutant to SA leader Hermann Ritter von Schöpf . From 1933 he also served as mayor of Friedberg and one year later became deputy district leader there in personal union. In 1934, Hack won a competition for the best broadcaster at the Reichssender München . In 1935 Hack was dismissed from office due to unknown party differences. The dismissal was preceded by a procedure before the Supreme Party Court of the NSDAP , in which the district leader von Friedberg and Hack acted as his deputy. Hack was reprimanded but received retirement benefits. In mid-1936 Hack was briefly detained on suspicion of arson , but was released from prison because the suspicion was not confirmed. He then hired himself out as a representative.

After the outbreak of the Second World War , Hack registered for a district administrator post in Wartheland at the end of December . His application was turned down, but a job in the General Government was offered. Hack was initially head of the personnel department in the office of the Radom district under Governor Karl Lasch . In April 1940 he moved to the post of Deputy District Chief among Eduard Jedamzik to Kielce . On March 31, 1941 , the Kielce ghetto was established in the city of Kielce for the approximately 25,000 Jews of the district and a further 1,004 Jews who were deported from Vienna in February 1941 . After the attack on the Soviet Union , Hack rose to become the district chief of Horodenka in the conquered Galicia district in August 1941 . At the beginning of April 1942, the district administration in Horodenka was lifted, he was released from his work in the Generalgouvernement and drafted into the armed forces . There he acted as an imperial speaker in the troop support in Northern and Western Europe.

On June 5, 1945, Hack was arrested by members of the US Army while crossing over to Austria and remained a prisoner of war until December 1948. He then interpreted for the staff of the British Army in Düsseldorf until 1950 . Hack worked, among other things, as a language teacher, representative, ice cream parlor and at the Federal Air Protection Agency and also gave lectures. Hack became a member of the FDP and later became involved in the SPD.

Investigations were conducted against Hack in the 1960s, which were closed on March 26, 1969 by the Darmstadt public prosecutor's office. In this context, Hack was questioned on April 12, 1965 about his activities as district chief.

literature

• Markus Roth: Gentlemen. The German District Chiefs in Occupied Poland - Career Paths, Rule Practice and Post-History. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2009. ISBN 978-3-8353-0477-2 .
• Dieter Pohl : National Socialist Persecution of Jews in East Galicia, 1941-1944. Oldenbourg, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-486-56233-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Kurzbiografie in Mark Roth: Mr people , Göttingen 2009, p 477f.
2. ↑ Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen , Göttingen 2009, pp. 95f.
3. ↑ deathcamps.org: Ghetto Kielce
4. ↑ Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen , Göttingen 2009, p. 410.
5. ↑ Dieter Pohl: National Socialist Persecution of Jews in East Galicia, 1941-1944. , Munich 1997, p. 81.