Hans Jüttner

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Hans Jüttner
SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS
Commands heldSS Leadership Main Office
AwardsKnights Cross of the War Merit Cross, with Swords

Hans Jüttner (2 March 1894 – 24 May 1965) was a German high-ranking functionary in the SS of Nazi Germany who served as the head of the SS Führungshauptamt (SS Leadership Main Office).

Career in the Nazi Party and the SS

In 1933, Jüttner joined the SA. In 1934, Jüttner became chef of the SA Reichsführerschule (training body for SA leaders) in Munich. In May 1935, he switched to the SS combat support force (SS-Verfügungstruppe or SS-VT), which subsequently became the Waffen-SS. By 1939, Jüttner had become the Inspector of Reserve Troops of the SS-VT-Division. From early 1940, Jüttner led the SS-VT command office.

In the summer of the same year, Jüttner was promoted to chief of staff of the newly created SS Leadership Main Office (

20 July 1944, Himmler appointed Jüttner Chief of "Army Armament and Commander of the Reserve Army". Jüttner was later awarded the Knights Cross of the War Merit Cross, with Swords.[3]

Trial and conviction

On 17 May 1945, Jüttner was taken prisoner by British forces. In 1948, he was sentenced to ten years in a labour camp by a denazification court. In appeal proceedings in 1949, his punishment was lowered to four years. Rezső Kasztner testified that Jüttner had taken pity on a group of Hungarian Jews after witnessing a death march, resulting in 7,500 Jews being sent back to Budapest. It was later found that the death march had been called off since the roads were blocked off by retreating German soldiers.[4]

In 1961, Jüttner testified for the prosecution in the trial of

Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann.[5] Later Jüttner was the proprietor of a sanatorium in Bad Tölz,[5]
where he died in 1965.

Jüttner was a member of HIAG.[6]

References

  1. ^ Until 1941, the Inspektion des Konzentrationslagern, which reported directly to the SS-Hauptamt.
  2. ^ Sydnor, Charles W, Soldiers of Destruction: The SS Death's Head Division, 1933-1945. Princeton University Press (1990) pp. 132-136.
  3. ISBN 978-1-78155-433-3
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  4. ^ Christian Gerlach, Götz Aly: Das letzte Kapitel. Der Mord an den ungarischen Juden 1944-1945. Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3.598-15772-2, S. 362–363.
  5. ^ a b "Eichmann trial: Testimony taken abroad". www.nizkor.org. Archived from the original on 2012-02-08. Retrieved 2008-10-05.
  6. ^ Abschied von einem großen Soldaten. In: Der Freiwillige. Juni 1965, S. 21–23.

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