Oscar Hans

Oscar Hans (born February 6, 1910 in Volmeringen , Lorraine ) was a German SS-Hauptsturmführer and war criminal . During the Second World War , at the time of the German occupation , he was stationed in Norway , where he was responsible for the executions of the Norwegian prisoners of war as the leader of an "SS Sonderkommando" . After the end of the war he was sentenced to death by a Norwegian court of appeal, but acquitted by the Supreme Court and transferred to Germany.

Life

From 1929 to 1933, Hans studied administrative law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . In 1933 he joined the SS and in 1934 he joined the SD Main Office .

Second World War

Hans as head of an SS special unit

In 1939 he was transferred to the SD headquarters in Berlin and from the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA) to Norway, BdS Oslo / Leiter I on April 25, 1940, where he was deployed until May 1945. He arrived there on orders from Berlin together with a delegation from the Sipo and was assigned to Division I of the Sipo. The totality of the Sipo in Norway comprised six departments and was under the command of Heinrich Fehlis . The head of Oscar Hans's section was SS-Obersturmbannführer Hans Keller.

On May 25, 1945, Hans was arrested in Kristiansand . He was tried for war crimes in the Hamar Court of Appeals in January 1947 and in the Supreme Court in August 1947. According to the indictment , the defendant was a member of the SS and from April 25, 1940 worked in Section 1 of the Sipo in Oslo. From the beginning of 1941 he was also head of the Sonderkommando. In this function he was responsible for the execution of death sentences by the SS and Police Court North set up by Günther Reinecke . His first official act was the shooting of the sentenced to death union chairmen Harald Viggo Hansteen and Rolf Wickstrøm on September 10, 1941.

As head of the Sonderkommando, Hans said he was responsible for carrying out 215 executions of Norwegian patriots, 68 of which were carried out without prior legal proceedings. In the process he was charged with the execution of at least 312 Norwegian patriots.

Oscar Hans, leader of the Sonderkommando and commander of the firing squad who executed Norwegian prisoners, was originally sentenced to death but the sentence was overturned by the Norwegian Supreme Court. On December 10, 1947, Hans was deported to Germany.

A British military tribunal dealt with Oscar Hans's crimes from August 18-22, 1948 in Hamburg and sentenced him to 15 years in prison. In April 1954, Hans, who was incarcerated in Werl , was released.

See also

• Milk Strike (Norway)

literature

• Berit Nøkleby: Hans, Oscar. In: Hans Fredrik Dahl, Guri Hjeltnes, Berit Nøkleby, Nils Johan Ringdal and Øystein Sørensen (eds.): Norsk krigsleksikon 1940–1945. Cappelen, Oslo 1995, ISBN 82-02-14138-9 , p. 158 (Norwegian).
• Robert Bohn (Ed.): Germany, Europe and the North. HMRG, Beihefte, Volume 6, Stuttgart 1993, pp. 120-123.
• Fritz Petrick: "Disturbance of the Peace" - Studies on the Northern European Policy of Hitler Germany. Edition Organon, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-931034-01-1 , p. 87.
• Jörg Gägel in collaboration with Reiner Steinweg: Discourses of the past in the Baltic Sea region. Vol. I: Disputes in the Nordic countries over war, genocide, dictatorship, occupation and displacement . LIT Verlag, Berlin et al. 2007, p. 71.
• Sienho Yee (Ed.): "The Mistake of Law Defense". In: International Crime and Punishment: Selected Issues , Vol. 1, University Press of America, Lanham, Md. 2003, p. 81 (English).
• Knut Dörmann: Elements of War Crimes Under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court . Cambridge 2003, p. XXXIX (English).

Web links

• Monument in the Trandumer Wald , gedenkstaetten-uebersicht.de
• Trandumskogen (monument in the Trandumer Forest) , elg-johansen.com (Norwegian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals, selected and prepared by the United Nations War Crimes Commission, Volume V, p. 81 ff., HMSO, London 1948 , www.ess.uwe.ac.uk, accessed on April 21, 2014 Proceedings against Hauptsturmführer Oscar Hans ( Hans Case ), Eidsivating Lagmannsreit, January 1947 and Supreme Court of Norway, August 1947 (UNWCC, LRTWC, vol. V, London 1948, p. 81 ff.) (14 AD 305).
2. ↑ Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals, selected and prepared by the United Nations War Crimes Commission, Volume V, p. 81 ff., HMSO, London 1948 ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was used automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , www.ess.uwe.ac.uk, accessed on April 21, 2014. Proceedings against Hauptsturmführer Oscar Hans ( Hans Case ), Eidsivating Lagmannsreit, January 1947 and Supreme Court of Norway, August 1947 (UNWCC, LRTWC, vol. V, London 1948, p. 81 ff.) (14 AD 305). 
3. ^ Paul, Gerhard; Mallmann, Klaus-Michael (Eds.), The Gestapo - Myth and Reality , Primus Verlag GmbH, Darmstadt 1996, p. 471.
4. ↑ Kjeldstadli, Sverre: Hjemmestyrkene: Hovedtrekk av den Militoere motestand under okkupasjonen , H. Aschehoug, & Co. (W. Nygaard), Oslo 1959, p. 388 (Norwegian).
5. ↑ Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals, selected and prepared by the United Nations War Crimes Commission, Volume V, p. 81 ff., HMSO, London 1948 ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was used automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , www.ess.uwe.ac.uk, accessed on April 21, 2014. Proceedings against Hauptsturmführer Oscar Hans ( Hans Case ), Eidsivating Lagmannsreit, January 1947 and Supreme Court of Norway, August 1947 (UNWCC, LRTWC, vol. V, London 1948, p. 81 ff.) (14 AD 305). 
6. ↑ Skarsem, Øyvind og Flyum Ola: Rinnanjævel , Aschehoug 2011, ISBN 978-82-03-29319-1 , p. 48 (Norwegian).
7. ↑ Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals , p. 1 (Introduction), www.loc.gouv, accessed on April 22, 2014.
8. ↑ Bohn, Deutschland, Europa und der Norden , p. 121, footnote 48.