Paul Hahn

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Paul Gustav Hahn (born April 5, 1883 in Obertürkheim , Kingdom of Württemberg , † April 2, 1952 in Stuttgart ) was a German teacher and painter. After the November Revolution, he built up security services in the People's State of Württemberg and was Chief Police Director of Stuttgart until 1923. Because of his connections to the resistance against National Socialism , he was sentenced to three years in prison after the failed assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 .

Life

As the son of a fitter, Hahn spent his youth in Esslingen am Neckar . From 1897 to 1902 he attended the preparatory institute in Nürtingen . He then taught as a teacher in Stuttgart. In 1907 he began studying at the Stuttgart School of Applied Arts and Art . After completing his studies in 1911, he opened a workshop for graphic arts and earned his living as a painter. He exhibited pictures and drawings at the Stuttgart Art Association and worked as an advertising artist. When the First World War broke out , Hahn registered as a volunteer with the Dragoon Regiment "Queen Olga" (1st Württembergisches) No. 25 ( Ludwigsburg ). In 1915 he was seriously wounded. After a promotion to lieutenant in the Landwehr - Cavalry on August 22, 1916, he was transferred to the Württemberg Infantry Regiment No. 475 on June 1, 1917. After being wounded again and staying in a hospital, he came to the mountain reserve battalion in Isny and was elected to the soldiers' council on November 9, 1918 .

Weimar Republic

From December 12, 1918 to March 21, 1919, Hahn was a member of the state committee of the Württemberg soldiers' councils. There he was commissioned on December 11, 1918 to set up temporary volunteer associations . With his security companies he put down the Spartacus uprising in Stuttgart at the beginning of January 1919 . He took over the central management of the Württemberg security forces in Stuttgart, which on December 20, 1918 from the General Command of the XIII. (Württ.) Army Corps had been set up. Württemberg security troops also took part in the overthrow of the Munich Soviet Republic . After the security troops were taken over in the provisional Reichswehr , Hahn remained Chief Police Director in Stuttgart. As head of the headquarters for resident defense in Württemberg, he supported the government during the Kapp Putsch , which had taken refuge in Stuttgart. In April 1922 Hahn was relieved of his office after falling out with the Württemberg interior minister, Eugen Graf, and the SPD faction; his employment as chief police director ended in March 1923. Hahn worked from now on as a freelance designer and participated in the Knoll steel furniture factory, among other things.

Nazi and post-war period

In 1935 Hahn was employed by Robert Bosch GmbH . He worked for the Robert Bosch Foundation in setting up the Robert Bosch Hospital in Stuttgart . Through Robert Bosch , he also came into contact with resistance groups, especially Carl Friedrich Goerdeler . After the failed assassination attempt on Hitler, Hahn was arrested on August 8, 1944 and sentenced by the People's Court on February 28, 1945 to three years in prison and imprisoned in the Brandenburg-Görden prison.

After the Battle of Berlin Hahn returned to Stuttgart, where he was in charge of building up the police force from June to September 1945 as "Chief of the German State Police for Württemberg" in the French occupation zone . Due to differences with the American military government , he resigned from office and retired into private life.

Fonts

  • Memories from the revolution in Württemberg. “The red rooster. A phenomenon of revolution ” . Berger's literary office and publishing house, Stuttgart 1922.

literature

  • Eberhard Kolb and Klaus Schönhoven. Regional and local council organizations in Württemberg 1918/19 . Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1976, ISBN 3-7700-5084-3 .
  • Wilhelm Wedge . Experiences of a Social Democrat . II volume. German publishing house, Stuttgart 1948.

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personal data
SURNAME Hahn, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hahn, Paul Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and state police director
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Obertürkheim
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1952
Place of death Stuttgart