Richard Hartenberger

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Richard Hartenberger (born April 27, 1911 in Vienna ; † October 28, 1974 there ) was an Austrian SS-Untersturmführer (1943) and employee of the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Vienna and the Eichmann Department in the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA).

biography

Hartenberger, a stone printer by profession , worked with interruptions in his learned profession until 1938. In the early 1930s he oriented himself politically to the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria (SDAP), but joined the SS in April 1938 after Austria was annexed to the German Reich . He initially worked for several months at customs in Vienna. After starting work in the SD at the beginning of December 1938 , he was assigned to the Central Office for Jewish Emigration. From June 1941 he worked in the Eichmann department of the RSHA. Hartenberger was later assigned to Franz Stuschka there , who from the spring of 1942 was a censor for the Jewish prisoner mail. In the meantime, Hartenberger was still a member of the Eichmann special command in Budapest from March to December 1944 . There he was involved in the deportation of the Hungarian Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp .

Towards the end of April 1945, Hartenberger came to the Salzkammergut together with Adolf Eichmann , Anton Burger , Otto Hunsche , Franz Novak and Alfred Slawik . In early May 1945 they hid boxes of unknown content there - probably looted gold and other assets - and went into hiding . Together with Novak and Slawik, Hartenberger fled to Braunau am Inn and worked incognito as servants on an agricultural estate near Burgkirchen .

Hartenberger was later arrested and sentenced in 1950 to nine months in prison for abuse and crimes against humanity by the Vienna People's Court . He later worked as a department head in Vienna. On September 22, 1961, Hartenberger, who could not be charged again due to his conviction in 1950 ( ne bis in idem ), testified as follows at a witness interview:

“I can only say again that even if Eichmann never said anything to me personally about such Jewish measures, it was known throughout Section IV B 4 from the typists up to the top that the Jews were systematically killed. We were also aware that some of the Jews who were fit for work were singled out and, as long as they could, used to work, while the Jews who were unable to work were liquidated. Therefore, if someone in the report claims that they did not know anything about it, he is probably doing so for understandable reasons. It wasn't a secret. "

literature

  • Hans Safrian: Eichmann and his assistants . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-596-12076-4 .
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Safrian : Eichmann und seine Gehilfen, p. 321f.
  2. ↑ a b c Cf. Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 228.
  3. ↑ Yaacov Lozowick , Haim Watzman: Hitler's Bureaucrats: The Nazi Security Police and the Banality of Evil , Continuum International Publishing Group 2003, ISBN 9780826465375 , p 96
  4. ↑ Hans Safrian: Eichmann und seine Gehilfen, p. 321f.
  5. ↑ Hans Safrian: Eichmann und seine Gehilfen , p. 338.
  6. ↑ Interview with Richard Hartenberger from September 22, 1961, Regional Court Vienna, Vr 3388/61, quoted in Safrian, Eichmann-Männer , p. 332.
personal data
SURNAME Hartenberger, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian SS-Untersturmführer and perpetrator of the Holocaust
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1974
Place of death Vienna