Josef Hoegen

Josef Hoegen (born November 28, 1898 in Troisdorf ; † May 14, 1973 ) was a German civil servant, notorious for his brutality as a member of the Gestapo . The post-war justice system of the Federal Republic let him get away with a mild sentence.

Life

Josef Hoegen's father was a master painter. The son took part in the First World War as a soldier . During the Weimar period , Josef Hoegen joined the criminal police from 1922 .

After the seizure of power by the Nazis, he moved on August 17, 1933 for "political department" of the criminal police. From there he was transferred to the Cologne Gestapo in 1934 . His superior was Ferdinand Kütter . Hoegen investigated in particular against political opponents of National Socialism . In 1935 he led the arrests and interrogations against members of the KPD in Bonn . In the same year he also joined the NSDAP . His torture of Nikolaus Wasser is documented . In 1941 he was suspended from work and expelled from the party because of black market deals, sentenced to six months in prison and, from August 1942, had to serve as a soldier on probation with Einsatzgruppe B in Smolensk . At the beginning of October 1943, Hoegen returned to his old post with the Cologne Gestapo (Küttner command).

After the end of the war, Hoegen was arrested by Allied forces in September 1945 and later transferred to German authorities. In a post-war trial, Hoegen was sentenced to nine years in prison in September 1949. The subject of the proceedings was the mistreatment and blackmailing of arrested SPD and KPD members as well as the mistreatment and shooting of members of the "Free Germany" resistance movement in 1944 and 1945. After his release from prison in 1953, he worked as a self-employed businessman in Cologne .

Film adaptations

Documentation with the title "The Edelweiss Pirates: Youth Opposition in the Third Reich"

literature

• Dirk Lukaßen: "Human traffickers before the judge" - Cologne Gestapo and post-war justice: the "Hoegen trial" before the Cologne jury court in 1949 and its reception in the local daily newspapers . Siegburg: Rheinlandia-Verl. 2006
• LG Cologne, December 19, 1949 . In: Justice and Nazi crimes . Collection of German criminal judgments for Nazi homicidal crimes 1945–1966, Vol. V, edited by Adelheid L. Rüter-Ehlermann, CF Rüter . Amsterdam: University Press, 1970, No. 189, pp. 683–780. Abuse and blackmailing of arrested members of the SPD and KPD (1933-1940). Abuse and shooting of members of the 'Free Germany' resistance movement (1944/1945)

Web links

• Josef Hoegen on Museenkoeln.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dirk Lukaßen: "Menschenschinder vor dem Richter" , 2006, p. 88
2. ↑ Summary of the procedure ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in justice and Nazi crimes .