Robert Lehmann (SS member)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Robert Lehmann (* 14. September 1910 in Aubeln , Silesia ; † 24. December 1973 in Bad Kissingen ) was a German hauptsturmführer and deputy leader of the Einsatzgruppe H .

Life

Robert Lehmann was the son of a construction technician . In Aubeln he attended elementary and secondary school and, after graduating from high school in 1929, enrolled at the German Technical University in Prague for chemistry. After five semesters, he continued his studies at the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the German University in Prague , where he passed the teaching examination for grammar schools and secondary schools at the beginning of 1934 and was awarded a doctorate in October of the same year. rer. nat. PhD. From June 1934 to July 1936 he did active military service in the Czechoslovak Army. After finishing his service, he married and became a teacher at a state middle school in the Giant Mountains.

In April 1937 he moved to Germany. He was employed in the SD Upper Section Southeast in Breslau and, after being naturalized at the end of January 1938, was accepted into the SS as an Oberscharführer . In the same year he applied for admission to the NSDAP after he had already become a member of the DNSAP in Opava in 1932 and had been active in the NSDStB in Prague during his studies . In 1943 he was awarded the War Merit Cross, Second Class with Swords .

During the war, Lehmann did his service in the RSHA , group IB (education, training and instruction), among other things in the driving school of the security police in Charlottenburg . In the middle of September 1944 he was transferred to Slovakia , where he acted as the deputy head of the Einsatzgruppe H and in the first half of December 1944 temporarily as the leader of the zbv Command 29. In September 1944 he signed a situation report on a "major Jewish action" , during which 1,600 Jews were arrested with the help of the German homeland security and Hlinka guards and then deported to Auschwitz. After the war, Lehmann lived in the Federal Republic and ran a chemical factory in Osnabrück . He died in Bad Kissingen in 1973.

literature

  • Lenka Šindelářová: Finale of the Annihilation. Einsatzgruppe H in Slovakia in 1944/1945 . WBG , Darmstadt 2013, ISBN 978-3534259731

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Lenka Šindelářová: Finale of the annihilation. Einsatzgruppe H in Slovakia in 1944/1945 . Darmstadt 2013, p. 196.
  2. ↑ Mariana Hausleitner u. a. (Ed.): The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 (collection of sources), Volume 13: Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria . Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-036500-9 , p. 311.
  3. ↑ Lenka Šindelářová: Finale of the annihilation. Einsatzgruppe H in Slovakia in 1944/1945 . Darmstadt 2013, p. 197.
personal data
SURNAME Lehmann, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Hauptsturmführer and deputy leader of the Einsatzgruppe H
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Aubeln , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH December 24th 1973
Place of death Bad Kissingen