Rolf Höhne

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Rolf Höhne (born September 26, 1908 , † September 19, 1947 in Bautzen ) was a German geologist , prehistorian and SS-Obersturmbannführer .

Life

Rudolf Höhne studied geology and received his doctorate from the University of Greifswald in 1933 . In 1931 he joined the SS (membership number 8.820) and became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 680.099). He became head of Department IIIb in the SS Race and Settlement Main Office and later a personal assistant to Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler . On November 9, 1936, he was promoted to SS-Obersturmführer .

In June 1937 he discovered the alleged remains of Heinrich des Vogler in Quedlinburg . In February and May 1938 he headed the Ahnenerbe teaching and research department for excavations, and later the department for geology and mineralogy.

After the beginning of the Second World War he entered the service of the Waffen-SS , where he rose to SS-Obersturmbannführer at the beginning of April 1941 - as well as in the General SS . From 1941/42 he commanded the SS military geologist battalion 500. The battalion's tasks included searching for and checking drinking water in the occupied areas, soil research before the construction of military installations and the construction of bunkers. They were also involved in defensive lines on the Normandy coast to repel the invasion and most recently in the construction of the Blue Line defense line in northern Italy, including fighting with partisans and retaliation against civilians (for example in the Pedescala massacre in May 1945).

Rudolf Höhne died in 1947 in the special camp in Bautzen .

Publications

  • Contributions to the stratigraphy, tectonics and paleogeography of the southern Baltic Rhaetian Lias, especially on Bornholm . Bamberg, Greifswald 1933 (= dissertation).
  • The importance of modern geophysical measurements of groundwater resources before the construction of new and expanded waterworks , [Oldenbourg], Munich 1950.

literature

  • Michael H. Kater : The “Ahnenerbe” of the SS, 1935–1945. A contribution to the cultural policy of the Third Reich . 4th edition Oldenbourg-Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-486-57950-9 , p. (also dissertation, University of Heidelberg 1966).
  • Luca Valente: I geologi di Himmler. L'SS Defense Geologist Battalion 500 tra Veneto e Trentino , Ed. Cierre, Verona 2007 ISBN 978-88-8314-410-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Black Corps of July 8, 1937.
  2. ↑ Michael Kater: The "Ahnenerbe" of the SS, 1935-1945. A contribution to the cultural policy of the Third Reich . Munich 2006. p. 81.
  3. ^ Entry in the SS seniority list of the SS
  4. ^ Hermann Kaienburg: The military and business location of the SS in the Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg concentration camp site , (= series of publications by the Brandenburg Memorials Foundation, vol. 16). Berlin 2006, p. 245.
personal data
SURNAME Höhne, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geologist and prehistoric
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1908
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1947
Place of death Bautzen