Walter Hammer (SS member)

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Walter Hammer (born June 30, 1907 in Hagen ; † 2003 ) was SS-Obersturmbannführer and government advisor in the National Socialist German Reich , leader of Einsatzkommando 2 of Einsatzgruppe IV of the security police in German-occupied Poland , commander of the security police and SD Warsaw , head of the office group VI E in the Reich Security Main Office .

Life

The son of a judge studied law in Freiburg im Breisgau . After obtaining his doctorate in Göttingen, he worked at the court in Hagen and joined the NSDAP (No. 3.196.199) and the SA in May 1933 . As he stated after the end of the Second World War, he switched to the Gestapo in July 1935 due to career considerations (SS No. 250.155). From November 9, 1936 to 1938, he was a government assessor at the state police station in Erfurt . He then headed the Schneidemühl state police station in Pomerania until August 1939 .

As part of the Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police ( Sipo ) during the attack on Poland , Hammer was appointed leader of the Einsatzkommando (EK) 2 of the Einsatzgruppe (EGr) IV (Führer SS-Brigadführer Lothar Beutel ). This consisted of two task forces:

  • EK 1 / IV: SS-Sturmbannführer and Government Councilor Helmut Bischoff
  • EK 2 / IV: SS-Sturmbannführer and Councilor Walter Hammer

On September 12, 1939, the entire EGr IV carried out a “retaliatory measure” for the so-called “ Bromberger Blutsonntag ” on Bag's orders . According to Hammers, at least 80 Poles were shot dead in this terrorist operation on July 20, 1965 before the public prosecutor at the Berlin Regional Court . However, the prosecution also noted that Hammer had also testified that the shootings had lasted all day. Therefore, a far higher number of victims can be assumed.

After the dissolution of the Sipo Einsatzgruppen in autumn 1939, Hammer was appointed as a councilor to command the Sipo and SD in Warsaw .

As a department head in the Gestapo department at the commander of the Sipo and SD (BdS) in The Hague from January 1941 to February 1942, he was involved in the legal preparations for the establishment of the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Amsterdam .

From June 1942 to September 1943 Hammer headed Office Group VI E (Central Europe, Balkans) in the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) as the successor to SS-Obersturmbannführer Helmut Bone .

In autumn 1943 he was assigned to the BdS Verona .

In May 1945, Hammer was first taken into Czechoslovak and then Soviet captivity . He was sentenced to 25 years in a labor camp by a Soviet military court. Due to the agreement between Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and the Soviet Defense Minister Nikolai Alexandrowitsch Bulganin , he was able to return to Germany in December 1955 .

Hammer was arrested in May 1965 for the shootings near Bromberg , but released in November. A corresponding investigation by the Berlin public prosecutor's office against him was discontinued in early 1971. In addition to Lothar Beutel (former leader of EGr IV) and Helmut Bischoff (former leader of EK 1 / IV), he was also put out of prosecution due to a lack of evidence by a decision of the Berlin Regional Court of March 26, 1971.

dissertation

  • The relationship between the obligation to cease and desist , Schwerte 1931 (Göttingen, R.- and staatswiss. Diss.) DNB

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bundesarchiv und others (Ed.): The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 Western and Northern Europe 1940 - June 1942 Vol. 5 Western and Northern Europe 1940 - June 1942. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2003, p. 243, ISBN 978-3-486-71861-4
  2. ↑ Wildt, Generation, pp. 446f.
  3. ^ Joseph Schreieder , That was the England game , Verlag Walter Stutz Munich 1950, p. 22
personal data
SURNAME Hammer, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Obersturmbannführer and councilor
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen
DATE OF DEATH 2003