Paul Hennicke
Paul August Ernst Hennicke (born January 31, 1883 in Erfurt , † July 25, 1967 in Braunschweig ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ), SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police.
Life
Hennicke attended the public school, the higher commercial school in Erfurt and then the higher mechanical engineering schools in Dortmund and Einbeck . Hennicke entered the service of the Deutsche Reichsbahn and was employed by the Reichsbahn repair shop in Gotha . From 1914 to 1917 he took part in the First World War as a soldier with the rank of lieutenant and was awarded the Iron Cross, First and Second Class.
From April 1922 to November 1923 and then again from the mid-1920s, Hennicke was a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 36,492). Since 1925 he belonged to the Thuringian state parliament and since 1927 to the city council of Gotha. From 1933 Hennicke was the Thuringian State Councilor . From November 1933 to 1945 he was a member of the Reichstag .
The SS came Hennicke on 24 February 1929 at the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer at (member number 1332). On April 20, 1934, he was promoted to SS-Brigadführer and on January 30, 1938 to SS-Gruppenführer. He initially headed Standard 14 “Gotaburg” and from November 9, 1933, as SS-Oberführer, Section XXVII “Fulda-Werra”. In addition, he was from March 25, 1938 to 1942 police chief of Weimar and from October 1942 SS and police leader in Rostov-on-Don . On May 1, 1943, he moved to Kiev in the same position . In 1943 he received from Hitler an endowment of 150,000 Reichsmarks . From January 1944 he was transferred to the leader reserve of the Reichsführer SS , where he was responsible for special tasks. From the beginning of June 1944 he was inspector for the Volkssturm in the SS main office and from January 1945 inspector of the Volkssturm "Mitte". In the spring of 1945, Hennicke was acquitted before a court martial of the Wehrmacht in Weimar. He was accused of criticizing the continuation of the fighting. At the end of April 1945 in Regensburg, Hennicke, as the ambassador of Gauleiter Ludwig Ruckdeschel, influenced the trial court against the cathedral preacher Johann Maier , who was sentenced to death for allegedly undermining military strength .
After the war, Hennicke surrendered to the US Army in Gotha on June 1, 1945 . After internment, Hennicke lived as a pensioner in Braunschweig .
literature
- Marlis Gräfe, Bernhard Post, Andreas Schneider: The Secret State Police in the NS Gau Thuringia 1933–1945. Sources on the history of Thuringia. II. Half volume. Ed. State Center for Political Education Thuringia. Unchanged new edition. 2005, ISBN 3-931426-83-1 .
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Updated 2nd edition. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
- LG Amberg, October 4, 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. 171, pp. 395-401 Death sentences by a court martial against 2 Regensburg citizens who had demonstrated for the surrender of the city without a fight.
Web links
- Paul Hennicke in the database of members of the Reichstag
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerd R. Ueberschär , Winfried Vogel : Serving and earning. Hitler's gifts to his elites. Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-10-086002-0 .
- ^ Christian Feldmann: The cathedral preacher. Dr. Johann Maier - a life in the resistance. 1995, p. 172.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hennicke, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hennicke, Paul August Ernst (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (NSDAP), SS-Obergruppenführer and general of the police |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Erfurt |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 25, 1967 |
| Place of death | Braunschweig |