Reinhold Hanning

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Reinhold Hanning (born December 28, 1921 in Helpup ; † May 30, 2017 in Lage ) was a German SS-Unterscharfuhrer and was deployed as such to lead guards in the Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen concentration camps . Hanning was sentenced to five years in prison on at least 170,000 counts in 2016 for accessory to murder . The judgment did not become final, however, as the proceedings were still pending when Hanning died.

Life

Hanning grew up in Billinghausen in Lippe , where he attended elementary school from the age of 7 to 14. After that he worked in a factory. At the age of 14 he joined the Hitler Youth . Five years later he volunteered for the Waffen SS . On July 25, 1940, he became a member of the SS division "Das Reich" . In January 1942 he was transferred to the SS-Totenkopf - Sturmbann Auschwitz. In February 1943 he rose there from SS-Sturmmann to SS-Rottenführer . In September of the same year he was promoted to SS-Unterscharführer . In June 1944 he was transferred to the SS-Totenkopf-Guard Battalion Sachsenhausen. In Neuruppin , Hanning was taken prisoner of war in May 1945 , from which he was released in Munsterlager on May 20, 1948. He then worked as a cook for the British armed forces in Lage (Lippe) . From 1949 he worked as a driver and salesman for a dairy shop in Lage. In 1964 he took over this business and ran it until he retired in 1984.

Criminal trial

On 10 February 2015, the accused prosecutor Dortmund - central location in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for the processing of Nazi mass crimes - Hanning for aiding and abetting various "homicide", which he in his work as a member of the guards of the Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II made should have, especially in connection with the so-called " Hungary Action ", with mass shootings, selections and responsibility for the living conditions of prisoners. Before the main hearing began, Hanning denied having been involved in these “acts of killing”. However, through a statement from his lawyers, he admitted that he knew about mass murders . On April 29, 2016, Hanning, who had persistently remained silent on the allegations on the previous twelve days of the trial of the Detmold District Court ( jury chamber ), which opened on February 11, 2016, read out a personal statement of regret and apologized. A confession , however, respect his alleged aid was not made. The former concentration camp prisoners Leon Schwarzbaum, Justin Sonder and Erna de Vries took part in the trial as witnesses .

On June 17, 2016, the Detmold Regional Court found Hanning guilty of complicity in murder in at least 170,000 cases and sentenced him to five years' imprisonment. His counsel had, however, revision loaded, presumably by the appeal decision of the salient feature Federal Court in the case of Oskar Gröning had been affected. However, Hanning died on May 30, 2017, which resulted in the termination of the criminal proceedings as a procedural obstacle, so that the judgment did not become final .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Benjamin Schulz: Judgment in the Auschwitz trial: "You watched people being murdered in gas chambers". Spiegel Online, June 17, 2016, accessed June 18, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Dirk-Ulrich Brüggemann: The two faces of Reinhold Hanning - an approximation . Neue Westfälische , March 8, 2016, accessed April 29, 2016.
  3. ↑ Press release of the Detmold Regional Court of February 16, 2015 (→ Auschwitz Trial , website of the Detmold Regional Court).
  4. ↑ Trial of the ex-SS security guard: “I'm ashamed of it” . Deutschlandfunk , April 29, 2016, accessed on April 29, 2016.
  5. ↑ Hans Holzhaider : “You think all the time: Will I succeed in surviving again?” Sueddeutsche.de , February 10, 2016, accessed on April 29, 2016.
  6. ^ LG Detmold, judgment of June 17, 2016 - 4 Ks-45 Js 3 / 13-9 / 15
  7. ^ Trial in Detmold: Auschwitz guard Hanning sentenced to five years in prison. Spiegel Online , June 17, 2016, accessed June 17, 2016 .
  8. ^ Revision lodged in the Auschwitz trial - Westfalen-Lippe - Nachrichten - WDR. (No longer available online.) In: www1.wdr.de. June 23, 2016, archived from the original on December 28, 2016 ; accessed on June 23, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www1.wdr.de
  9. ↑ Gröning and the new BGH case law on Nazi crimes haufe-online, November 29, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Hanning, Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Unterscharführer
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Helpup
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 2017
Place of death Location (lip)