Paul Gerhard Grande

Paul Gerhard Grande (born June 2, 1913 in Schneidemühl ; † February 24, 1984 in Hanover ) was a German concentration camp inmate and was responsible for looking after former concentration camp inmates on the Hanover Reconstruction Committee .

Life

After being in the Auschwitz concentration camp was detained, he was in February 1945 in the Neuengamme concentration camp spent and had there as a so-called Rapport Schreiber serve until April 6, 1945, other surviving concentration camp prisoners on a " death march " to Bergen-Belsen was sent .

After Grande had also survived the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, he became - after the liberation - on April 16, 1945, in the committee for reconstruction, managing director or deputy chairman of the sub-committee for the care of former concentration camp inmates. In contrast to the main committee, which was dissolved by the British military government on June 1, 1945, the "concentration camp committee" was only dissolved in 1950.

Paul Gerhardt Grande has in particular the analysis of the history of the Hanoverian concentration camp acquired merits.

Witness at the 1st Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial

Paul Gerhard Grande was interrogated as a witness on July 10, 1964, on the 64th day of the 1. Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial . During his interrogation, Grande stated that he was racially persecuted in the National Socialist German Reich and had therefore forged documents. In the course of the trial, however, it came to light that Grande had been convicted many times before the Nazis came to power on January 30, 1933 and had made false statements to the court. Grande was convicted four times during the Weimar Republic and six times in the German Empire.

Convictions

Weimar Republic

Grande was sentenced to three months and two weeks in prison on two counts in 1932 for continued fraud and simple forgery. He served this prison sentence on February 22, 1932. Furthermore, Gerhard Grande was sentenced by the Waldenburg District Court on April 18, 1932 to six weeks in prison for fraud and to three weeks in prison on September 12, 1932 for fraud. On December 30, 1932, Grande was legally sentenced for the fourth time: by the Görlitz jury for fraud and embezzlement in two cases, as well as theft and serious forgery of documents, to three months in prison.

German Empire

On July 17, 1933, Grande was re-convicted of the same offense, two relapse fraud. In 1934 he was sentenced to six weeks for attempted extortion. The sentence was released by amnesty. On December 6, 1935, Grande was sentenced to one year in prison and three years in loss of honor by the Görlitz jury for continued fraud. He served the sentence on October 23, 1936. On September 24, 1936, the Liegnitz jury sentenced Grande to one year and six months in prison for recidivism fraud in four cases in which there were serious falsification of documents. He served the sentence on March 28, 1939. Most recently, Grande was sentenced on December 6, 1939 for recidivism fraud in three cases to three years and six months in prison and five years of loss of honor and preventive detention.

Federal Republic of Germany

In addition, in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1947, Grande was again sentenced to one year imprisonment by the Hanover Regional Court for violating the peace. Incidentally, in these proceedings he was represented as a lawyer by Henri Ormond, who also acted as a subsidiary prosecutor in the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial.

Honors

The Grandeweg , laid out in Hanover-Wettbergen in 1990, honors the "Managing Director of the Concentration Camp Committee" with its name.

literature

Klaus Mlynek : Grande, Paul Gerhard , in: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 134.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Klaus Mlynek: Grande, Paul Gerhard. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 134.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Helmut Zimmermann : Grandeweg. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung , Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 96.
^ Klaus Mlynek: Reconstruction Committee. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 677.
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l 1. Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial »Criminal case against Mulka u. a. «, 4 Ks 2/63 Regional Court Frankfurt am Main 64th day of the hearing, July 10, 1964 Examination of the witness Gerhard Grande , accessed on November 20, 2013.
^ Minutes of the hearing of Grande witnesses at the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial. Retrieved July 22, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Grande, Paul Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German concentration camp prisoner , manager of the “concentration camp committee” in Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH	June 2, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schneidemühl
DATE OF DEATH	February 24, 1984
Place of death	Hanover

[SLH-1] Klaus Mlynek: Grande, Paul Gerhard. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 134.

[Straßennamen-2] Helmut Zimmermann : Grandeweg. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung , Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 96.

[3] Klaus Mlynek: Reconstruction Committee. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 677.

[AP-4] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l 1. Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial »Criminal case against Mulka u. a. «, 4 Ks 2/63 Regional Court Frankfurt am Main 64th day of the hearing, July 10, 1964 Examination of the witness Gerhard Grande , accessed on November 20, 2013.

[5] Minutes of the hearing of Grande witnesses at the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial. Retrieved July 22, 2020 .