Johann Haug (putschist)

Johann Hans Haug (born April 19, 1898 in Pressburg , † February 27, 1957 in Munich ) was a German chauffeur and political activist. He was best known as one of the defendants in the "small" Hitler putsch trial of April / May 1924.

Life and activity

Haug among the defendants in the "Little Hitler Trial" (April 1924).

Haug was a son of the piano teacher Johann Haug and his wife Magdalene, geb. Jordan. His sister was Eugenie Haug , who made a name for herself because of her relationship with Adolf Hitler in the 1920s.

At the First World War Haug took the Bavarian artillery part. After his return from the war, he worked as a waiter in Munich in 1919 and 1920 .

In March 1920 Haug came into contact with the then emerging National Socialist movement. On June 11, 1920 he became a member of the NSDAP (membership number 1,376). At the end of 1920 Haug was one of the founders of the SA . From November 1, 1922, Haug was the first chauffeur of the party chairman of the NSDAP and later dictator Adolf Hitler.

In the years 1920 to 1923 Haug took an active part in almost all the important milestones in the history of the early NSDAP: For example in the " Hofbräuhaus battle" of 1921, at which the SA first appeared in public, on Coburg Day in 1922, at the first party congress of the NSDAP in January 1923, at the Nuremberg meeting in 1923 and at the march on the Märzfeld near Munich on May 1, 1923.

In the summer of 1923, Haug became a member of the Adolf Hitler attack troop , a particularly powerful paramilitary formation of the NSDAP, which was founded at the time and acted as Hitler's bodyguard and is considered the forerunner of the Schutzstaffel (SS) established in 1925 .

On November 8 and 9, 1923, Haug took an active part in the Hitler putsch in Munich, an attempt by Hitler and other politicians of the radical right to take power in the state through a violent overthrow. After the coup failed, he was taken into custody on November 24, 1923, where he remained until February 26, 1924.

In April 1924 Haug was one of around 30 people - mostly members of Adolf Hitler's raiding party - who were charged with "aiding and abetting high treason" in the small Hitler putsch trial before the Munich I People's Court because of their participation in the overthrowing undertaking of November 1923. Like most defendants, he received a sentence of 15 months imprisonment imposed on the detention on remand was reckoned to him. Haug then served around three and a half more months in prison in Landsberg Fortress from June 12 to September 30, 1924 . The remaining months of imprisonment were released on probation. During his imprisonment in Landsberg in the summer of 1924, he was in a community with around thirty other coup participants who lived a comfortable prison life in a separate wing of the institution. Among these were u. a. Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Heß , Edmund Heines and the later SS chief Erhard Heiden .

After the re-establishment of the NSDAP in 1925, Haug did not join it again for several years. It was not until 1931 that Haug became a member of the NSDAP again on October 1, 1931 (membership number 652.901). He later justified this by stating that he was unable to do so because he was unemployed and unable to pay the mandatory membership fees.

Also on October 1, 1931, Haug was again a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA), in which he achieved the rank of storm leader in 1941. He was also a member of the National Socialist People's Welfare , the German Labor Front and the Reich Air Protection Association .

After 1933, Haug worked as a contract employee at the Reichsfachschaft for interpreting and for the party publisher of the NSDAP Franz Eher Successor .

In 1943 Haug can still be verified as a commercial clerk with residence at Barer Strasse 72/5 in Maxvorstadt .

Promotions

• March 1, 1932: SA squad leader
• May 20, 1933: SA troop leader
• November 9, 1934: SA Obertruppführer
• January 30, 1941: SA Sturmführer

literature

• Anton Joachimsthaler : Hitler's List , 2003.
• Anton Joachimsthaler: Hitler's path began in Munich 1913–1923 , 2000, p. 379.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://wiki-de.genealogy.net .