Lauterbacher, Hartman

In the early 1920s, he joined the Nazi movement. In 1922 he founded Deutscheugend in Kufstein (Austria), an organization similar to the German Hitler Youth . April 19, 1925 in Rosenheim met with A. Hitler . In April 1927 he entered the Hitler Youth (ticket number 4709). Since September 13, 1927 - a member of the NSDAP (party card No. 86 837). Since November 13, 1929 - Hitler Youth Orstruppenleiter in Braunschweig . In February - March 1930 - the head of the Braunschweig district of the Hitler Youth. Since March 31, 1930 - Gaufuhrer of the Hitler Youth "South Hannover - Braunschweig". From April 10, 1932 - Gebitsfuhrer Hitler Youth “Westphalia - Lower Rhine”. From May 26, 1933 - Obergebitsfuhrer of the Hitler Youth “West”. Since May 22, 1934 - Deputy Imperial Youth Leader of the NSDAP and Youth Leader of the Reich Baldur von Schirach , Chief of Staff of the Hitler Youth. Since 1936 - Member of the Reichstag . From August 8, 1940 - Deputy Gauleiter, and from December 2, 1940 to May 8, 1945 - Gauleiter of South Hanover - Braunschweig.

November 9, 1940 joined the SS (ticket number 382 406). From January 1941 - Prussian state adviser, from April 1, 1941 - Ober President of Hanover . Since November 16, 1942 - the imperial commissar of defense of Hanover. Since November 1943 - the imperial inspector of all anti-aircraft events, actively participated in the events of the total war.

As a Gauleiter, Lauterbacher pursued a tough anti-Jewish policy; on his orders in September 1941, the Jewish population of Hanover was driven into the ghetto ^[1] , which became a prologue to the expulsion of Hanoverian Jews to death camps that began in December 1941 ^[2] .

During the war, Lauterbacher distinguished himself as a fanatical National Socialist. As early as April 4, 1945, a few days before the Allied forces entered Hanover, he called on the population to stand to death by radio, and on April 8, 1945, having loaded his car with cigarettes under the guise of a sales representative, he fled to Harz, and from there to Austria. June 12, 1945 ^[3] was arrested by British troops in Carinthia ^[4] .

After the war, justice began a series of trials against Lauterbacher, including for crimes against humanity. At the beginning of July 1946, the Supreme British Army Court acquitted him in Hanover in the case of the murder of the Allies in the Hamelin Prison in early April 1945. In August 1947, at a trial in an internment camp in Dachau, he was accused of ordering in September 1944 to shoot 12 American pilots shot down in Goslar , but in October 1947 he was also acquitted. In the same 1947, the prosecutor's office of Hanover opened a case against him. Lauterbacher, who had been interned since the end of the war at the Sandbostel camp near Bremerförde in Lower Saxony , was able to escape on February 25, 1948 under unclear circumstances and then appeared in Italy. On April 27, 1950, he was arrested by the Italians and placed in a camp near Rome , from where he fled to Argentina in December 1950. Subsequently, Lauterbacher returned to Germany and worked in Munich in his brother's company for the marketing of industrial products abroad, Lab. After German justice returned to it, Lauterbacher again fled abroad. In 1950-1960 worked in the Middle East and Africa as an adviser and consultant to various Arab and African states. Until the mid-1970s, he worked at an advertising agency in Dortmund . Between 1977 and 1979 was a youth adviser to the Sultan of Oman . Then he lived in Morocco , in 1980 he returned to Germany, and in 1981 he settled for permanent residence in Austria. In 1984, published an autobiography.

• Hartmann Lauterbacher: Erlebt und mitgestaltet. Kronzeuge einer Epoche 1923-1945. Zu neuen Ufern nach Kriegsende; Preußisch-Oldendorf: KWSchütz-Verlag, 1984; ISBN 3-87725-109-9 (Autobiography)

• Zalessky K.A. Leaders and military leaders of the Third Reich: Biographical Encyclopedic Dictionary .. - M .: "Veche", 2000. - S. 233–234. - 576 [16 ill.] P. - ISBN 5-7838-0550-5 .

• Zalessky K.A. Who was who in the Third Reich: Biographical Encyclopedic Dictionary .. - M .: Publishing House AST: LLC Publishing House Astrel, 2002. - P. 403–404. - 942 [2] p. - ISBN 5-17-015753-3 (LLC "Publishing house AST"); isbn 5-271-05091-2 (Astrel Publishing House LLC).

• Zalessky K.A. SS. Guard detachments of the NSDAP .. - M .: Eksmo , 2004 .-- S. 312-313. - 656 p. - ISBN 5-699-06944-5 .

• Zalessky K.A. NSDAP. Power in the Third Reich. - M .: Eksmo , 2005 .-- S. 296-297. - 672 p. - ISBN 5-699-09780-5 .

• Wolfgang Graf "Austrian SS generals. Himmler 's reliable vassals ”( Österreichische SS-Generäle. Himmlers verlässliche Vasallen ), - Hermagoras-Verlag , Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna, 2012, ISBN 978-3-7086-0578-4 (German)
• Werner Klose “Marching Generation: Hitler Youth” ( “Generation im Gleichschritt: Die Hitlerjugend” ), - Oldenburg, Hamburg, Munich, 1982; ISBN 3-7979-1365-6 (German)
• Gerhard Rempel ( Gerhard Rempel ) "Children of Hitler. Hitler Youth and SS "( " Hitler's Children. The Hitler Youth and the SS " ), - Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990; S. 41-44; 122-123; ISBN 0-8078-4299-0 (English)
• Wolfgang Leonhardt “Hannover Stories - Messages from Different Areas of the City” ( “Hannoversche Geschichten” - Berichte aus verschiedenen Stadtteilen ), - Norderstedt, 2009/2010, p. 77. (German)
• Hermann Weiß "The Biographical Dictionary of the Third Reich" ( "Biographisches Lexikon zum Dritten Reich" ). - “Tosa,” Vienna 2003, p. 290 ISBN 3-85492-756-8 (German)

• Literature on Hartmann Lauterbacher in the German National Library catalog
• Hartmann Lauterbacher in the Reichstag Deputies Database
• Hartmann Lauterbacher Biography in the Braunschweig Biographical Dictionary