Rolf von Humann

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Rolf von Humann , actually Rolf Egbert Wennemar Paul Anton Maria von Humann-Hainhofen , (born June 15, 1885 in Hanover , † November 24, 1961 in Bad Kissingen ) was a German officer , politician of the DNVP and the NSDAP and from 1936 to 1945 Member of the Reichstag .

Life

After attending preschool and humanistic grammar schools in Oldenburg , Frankfurt an der Oder and Magdeburg , Humann attended the Rhenish Knight Academy in Bedburg .

Then in 1908 Humann joined the hussar regiment "Emperor Nicholas II of Russia" (1st Westphalian) No. 8 in Paderborn as a flag junior . On January 27, 1910, he was promoted to lieutenant . During the First World War he was used from the end of 1914 to 1917 as a regiment patrol officer, squadron leader and regimental adjutant. He was later assigned to the General Staff of the VIII Reserve Corps , where he became battalion leader. In November and December 1918 he was in the artillery of the 1st Reserve Division and then for a short time quartermaker with Marching Group C. At the beginning of 1919 he submitted his departure.

Until 1922 he was then Grand Master of the Young German Order in Paderborn . He also worked in forestry and agriculture. In 1923 he settled in Hainhofen as a farmer and farmer . In June 1928 Humann became a district assembly member of the Augsburg-Land District Assembly and the Chamber of Farmers.

Humann was a member of the DNVP from 1922 to 1931 and was in the Stahlhelm in 1928 and 1929 . In January 1932 Humann joined the NSDAP ( membership number 871.434) and on March 25, 1932 the SS (membership number 33.923). He was a member of the SS-Motorsturm and was SS-Truppführer from September 15, 1932 to July 15, 1933 in front of the SS-Motorsturm II / 29. After the National Socialist accession to power , Humann initially took over the management of the Augsburg Police Department and the 29th SS Standard from June 1933 to October 1934 . Contemporary witnesses emphasize that the police terror against opponents of the National Socialists escalated further when he took up his duties. From September 1934 to January 1, 1937, Humann was the leader of SS Section XVII in Münster in Westphalia. In 1937 he became staff leader of the Ribbentrop office and vice-president of the Association of German Frontline Fighters . He remained in this position until 1940. Before that, from 1937 to 1939 he was staff leader of the office of the NSDAP commissioner for foreign policy issues on the staff of the Führer’s deputy . From July 1937 to July 20, 1942 he was an honorary judge at the People's Court . From March 1936 until the end of the Nazi regime in the spring of 1945, Humann was also a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for constituency 17 (North Westphalia) . In the SS he reached the rank of SS brigade leader .

Humann participated in the Second World War from 1940 . Until November 1942 he was an Abwehr officer in the command staff of the military commander for Belgium and northern France and then field commander of Angoulême in southern France. On August 26, 1944, he was taken prisoner of war .

In 1957 Humann was sentenced to a nine-month suspended prison sentence by the Memmingen district court because he had sworn a perjury as a witness in the Memmingen “Metex trial” against the textile merchant Gerhard Lazari . He was also ordered to donate 3,000 marks to the German Red Cross .

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Individual evidence

  1. Information from Joachim Lilla: Extras in uniform: The members of the Reichstag 1933 - 1945, Düsseldorf 2004, entry Rolf von Humann
  2. ^ Dirk Riedel: Vigilante and mass murderer ..., ISBN 978-3-940938-63-3 , pp. 83, 369.
  3. ^ Personal details : Rolf von Humann. In: Der Spiegel of July 10, 1957, p. 56.