Hans-Dietrich Ernst

Hans-Dietrich Ernst (3 November 1908 in Opole - March 1991) was a German lawyer, sturmbannführer and SD employee, who during the World War II was a commander of the state police and the SD (KdS), in German-occupied France in Angers and was responsible for deportations of Jews.

Life

He graduated after completing academic studies in the law. After the transfer of power to the Nazis, he joined the NSDAP. After legal training and degree, he worked in the city administration in Hamburg and Berlin and immediately after the Anschluss by the end of 1939 in the office of the "Reich Commissar for the reunion of Austria with the German Reich". After the start of World War II, he was appointed in 1940 as part of his activity in the Hamburg Senate to Government.[1] Shortly thereafter, he was Deputy District Administrator in Tegel in the district of Karlsbad.[1] He was promoted to senior government.[1]

After the Battle of France, he was used in German-occupied France as a Director in the military administration in Dux and from 1941 in Bordeaux as a speaker for police matters at the local Feldkommandantur. In early June 1942, he became commander of the state police and the SD (KdS) in Angers. At the beginning of his work as KdS because this post was given the rank approximating a hauptsturmführer.[1] Under his command, on July 20, 1942, a transport of Jews from Angers was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp.[1][2] Ernst surrendered in August 1944 in the wake of the advancing allies his official residence as KdS Angers.

After the war, Ernst was in American internment, but from which he escaped. He then went into hiding in Leipzig, was arrested by members of the Soviet occupation and sentenced by a process to twenty years of forced labor. He was imprisoned in the Gulag, from 1947 to 1956, and was released as amnestied. During his internment in the Soviet Union, he was sentenced in absentia to death three times for crimes against French citizens.[1]

During his absence a denazification process took place at the initiative of his wife in 1951, where she performed for her presumed missing man. His wife had initiated this process in order to be financially secure after the 131er asset control. Ernst was filed in the denazification process as supporters of Nazism and would receive lower remuneration at a reinstatement in the civil service as well as a five-year travel restriction. His wife was still under 131 control financial supplies.[1]

After his release, Ernst moved in early 1956 to Leer with his wife and received a compensation of 5,520 DM.[1] On the initiative of the Central Legal Protection Centre (ZRS) Ernst was warned by the Association of returnees before leaving for France.[1] Due to his denazification status, Ernst could not return to public service, but received remuneration. In 1958, he was admitted as an attorney and in 1964 as a notary. At the Central Office of the State Justice Administration, in 1965 he was targeted by the Nazi hunters Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, against Ernst, and investigations were taken up several times.[1] During a hearing in March 1977 Ernst did not deny the deportation of Jews and referred to what he called for as KdS his hand tasks. he had not been aware about the destination of the deported Jews, since the trains had initially gone to the Drancy internment camp and he knew nothing of the Holocaust.[1] Serge Klarsfeld presented Justice Minister Hans-Jochen Vogel in 1977 with incriminating evidence about Ernst that was forwarded to the Oberlandesgericht Oldenburg. The OLG Oldenburg in 1977 investigated Ernst's admission as an advocate and as a notary. Both approvals were granted again. The campaign of the Klarsfelds protests in Leer from the French continued against Ernst; Ernst in 1981 in the course of the legal proceedings both surrendered the accreditations voluntarily.[1] Because of the deportation of Jews, in 1981 Ernst was accused by the District Court prosecutor of the Aurich, but because his health, there was not a main hearing.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Bernhard Brunner: Der Frankreich-Komplex.
  2. ↑ Gedenkbuch Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft in Deutschland 1933–1945.

Sources

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the German Wikipedia.
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