Kurt Hans

Kurt Friedrich Wilhelm Hans (born April 14, 1911 in Barmen ; † October 20, 1997 in Wuppertal ) was a German SS-Hauptsturmführer , part of the commando leader of Sonderkommando 4a of Einsatzgruppe C and a convicted war criminal .

Life

Kurt Hans was the seventh son of the master carpenter Robert Hans. He visited Barmen first the Protestant elementary school , starting in 1924 and graduated from high school in 1930, the school-leaving examination . Kurt Hans then studied mountain sciences for a few semesters in Tübingen and Cologne , but had to break off his studies in the spring of 1932 due to the economic collapse of his father's business and contribute to securing the family's livelihood with odd jobs.

From June 1, 1931 to August 1, 1933 he was a member of the SA . In 1932 he joined the NSDAP . At the beginning of 1934 he was employed by the criminal police in Wuppertal. In 1937 he received a police commissioner - candidate point and after completion of a course at the School for Leaders of the Security Police in Berlin-Charlottenburg carriage carried the chief inspector. In July 1938 he joined the SS . From May to October 1941, he was part of the commando leader Sonderkommando 4a of Einsatzgruppe C. Hans was as Commanding Officer authorized in several actions in Lutsk , Zhytomyr , Radomishl directly involved. On September 29 and 30, 1941, he supervised the firing squads in Babyn Yar near Kiev . Then he was initially deputy head of the police in Mönchengladbach and in early 1944 head of the criminal police control center in Würzburg .

In early April 1945, it succeeded Hans and his family from Würzburg to escape and temporarily submerge . Shortly afterwards he was arrested by the Americans. On October 10, 1947, Hans was sentenced to death by a US military tribunal in Dachau for his responsibility for the murder of Allied fighter pilots . In January 1951, Hans's death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment . On October 4, 1954, he was released from the Landsberg War Crimes Prison . He then worked as an insurance salesman for a company in Wuppertal. He was arrested in May 1965. On November 29, 1968, he was sentenced to 11 years imprisonment by the Darmstadt Regional Court for joint complicity in murder . In September 1970 he was granted exemption from custody, subject to certain conditions and regardless of his state of health .

literature

Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945. 2nd edition, Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Michael Okroy: Nazi perpetrators from Wuppertal - Bergischer Geschichtsverein department . Pp. 111-115. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Ernst Klee: The personal dictionary for the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 224.
^ Irmtrud Wojak: Fritz Bauer 1903–1968. A biography. 2nd edition, CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-58154-0 , p. 426.
↑ Mercy for mass murderers . Mainpost . December 3, 2006. Retrieved December 13, 2019.

personal data
SURNAME	Hans, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hans, Kurt Friedrich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German SS-Hauptsturmführer, part of the commando leader of Sonderkommando 4a of Einsatzgruppe C and convicted war criminal
DATE OF BIRTH	April 14, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH	Barmen
DATE OF DEATH	October 20, 1997
Place of death	Wuppertal

[Okroy-1] A ^b Michael Okroy: Nazi perpetrators from Wuppertal - Bergischer Geschichtsverein department . Pp. 111-115. Retrieved December 12, 2019.

[Klee-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Ernst Klee: The personal dictionary for the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 224.

[3] Irmtrud Wojak: Fritz Bauer 1903–1968. A biography. 2nd edition, CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-58154-0 , p. 426.

[4] Mercy for mass murderers . Mainpost . December 3, 2006. Retrieved December 13, 2019.