Willy Henke

This article deals with the SA leader Willy Henke. For other people see Wilhelm Henke .

Willy Henke (born October 26, 1902 ; † after 1943) was a German political functionary ( NSDAP ) and SA leader, most recently with the rank of SA brigade leader . He was among other things to manage for a large part of during the Second World War to Hamburg spent forced laborers responsible.

Life

In 1936 at the latest, Henke was head of the “Information” department at DAF-Guarantee administration in Hamburg. In later years he acted as a department head of the Hamburg Gauleitung of the DAF, before he took over the management of the main department area II (Gaubetriebsgemeinschaften) created in that year in 1941 as Gau operating community administrator. In addition, he held the office of "Gau Commissioner for Camp Management" for the DAF in Hamburg. In this capacity, he was responsible for the administration and transit of the voluntary, but above all forcibly recruited, workers brought to Hamburg. A report by Henkes from August 1942 provides an indicator of the extent of his effectiveness in this area, in which he states that 65,000 foreign workers have now “passed through” Hamburg, of which 31,000 were working in the city at the time.

Henke achieved his highest rank in the SA when he was promoted to brigade leader on August 5, 1943.

literature

• Karl Heinz Roth : Economy and Power. The Hamburg company 1930-1945 , in: Angelika Ebbinghaus (Ed.): No closed chapter: Hamburg in the “Third Reich” . Hamburg 1997.
• Friederike Littmann: Foreign forced laborers in the Hamburg war economy 1939–1945 . Dölling & Galitz, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-937904-26-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Roth, p. 110.