Hanns-Martin Schleyer

[Martin Månsson]

Searching the personal file of former SS officer Hanns-Martin Schleyer, later executed by the RAF (Rote Armee Fraktion).

Thanks in advance.

Best
Martin

[Georges JEROME]

Hi Martin,

Here datas from a previous topic on the forum

Hans Martin Schleyer
born on 1/5/15 at Offenburg.
he joined HJ on 1931.
He studied Law at University of Heidelberg and Freiburg.
He was a leader of the NS Deuscher Studentenbund (NSdstB) at the U of Heidelberg then Freiburg
in 1938 he joined Sicherheitsdients and SS
(he reach to the rank of SS Hauptsturmführer)
on 1939 he was appointed to the KarlUniversitat of Prag in same political duties with NS DStB
on 1941 Heydrich appointed him as Leader of the board of Zentralverband der Industrie in Bohmen Mahren in Prag.
at the end of the war he sent 3 years in a camp. released in 1948.

[Martin Månsson]

Thanks Georges, I've this information, searching his complete SS file.

Best
Martin

[Dieter Zinke]

Hallo Martin and Georges,

in the main according to Dr. phil. habil. Lutz Hachmeister, who is / was woking on the bio of

Hanns Martin Schleyer
* 01.05.1915 Offenburg / Baden
05.09.1977 von der RAF (“Rote Armee Fraktion“) gekidnapt
18.10.1977 assassinated

Son of the national-conservative lawyer Ernst Schleyer (later Landgerichtsdirektor in Konstanz).

1931 HJ
30.06.1933 SS-Mitglied

1934 Jurastudent in Heidelberg
Auditor of the ardent NS-sympathizers and lecturers as
Reinhard Höhn (since Sommersemester 1935 außerordentlicher Professor für Staats- und Verwaltungsrecht in Heidelberg, who engaged for the SD from the Studentenführung apart from Scheel also Franz Six and Fritz Kubach), and also
Kriek, Schmitthenner, Bötticher and Brinkmann.
Source: Universitätsarchiv, Rep. 29/856, 868, 892, 958,1010,1032.
E-Mail-Adresse(n): archiv@urz.uni-heidelberg.de

In den Korporationen in Heidelberg war ab 1933 SA-Dienst vorgeschrieben, Immatrikulation war nur noch bei Mitgliedschaft in SA, SS oder NSKK gestattet.

22.06.1934 Reception (affiliation) bei dem hochwohllöblichen “Corps Suevia“ im Kösener Senioren Konvents Verband (KSCV), Heidelberg, Klingenteich 4
(this was a élite-student club with shoulder tape in white-yellow-black, yellow peaked cap, engaged to students’ duel with blow; also Hans Krebs, at last General der Infanterie and m.d.W.d.G.b. Chef des Generalstabs des Heeres, was a member of “Corps Suevia”).

In 1934 im “Amt für Arbeitsdienst” / NS-Studentenschaft
(Univ.-Archiv, Stud. Akte 1930/40)

In 1935 Schleyer picked a quarrel with Suevia in order to exclude consequently all jewish members (“Alte Herren”).

In September 1935 the Stabschef der SA prohibited from membership in the KSCV.

30.11.1935 the “Corps Suevia” was suspended by the NS-government and
the SD-Führer in der Reichsführung des NSDStB, Ehrensenator der Heidelberger Ruprecht-Karls- Universität (“Ruperto Carola“) since 22.11.1935,
Dr. med. Gustav-Adolf Scheel (later Reichsstudentenführer, SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei, Gauleiter und Reichsstatthalter)
obtained that the “Corps Suevia” (founded in 1810 as the oldest)
received festively on 21.05.1939 the “Kameradschaft Axel Schaffeld“ in their ancestral seat in Klingenteich 4. This shot SA-Führer was (Weinheimer) Korpsstudent himself.

In 1937 / 1938, protected by Scheel he was
Leiter des Heidelberger Studentenwerks,
Leiter des Wirtschafts- und Sozialamts,
Leiter des Amts für politische Erziehung (succeeding Franz Six)

In February 1938 1. juristisches Staatsexamen (Referendar-Examen).
He tried to withdraw from the “Referendariat”-duties.

Then Leiter des Studentenwerks der Universität in Innsbruck
29.09.1939 Promotion zum Dr. iur. in Innsbruck

1939 - 1940 Soldat

Then Leiter des Studentenwerks der Universität in Prag.
May 1942: request to dismissal from civil service.
In Prag Sekretär des sudetendeutschen Funktionärs Dr. Bernhard Adolf,
damit zugleich Bürochef beim
“Centralverband der deutschen Industrie für Böhmen und Mähren“ (Präsident: Dr. Adolf).
Zugleich ehrenamtlicher Mitarbeiter des SD-Leitabschnitts Prag

01.01.1944 SS-Untersturmführer im RSHA

Wichtige Vorgänge in Sachen Rüstungsproduktion laufen über seinen Schreibtisch.
(He controlled the arming-production)

May 1945 escape to Baden, in French captivity, interned for three years.
Then chief of the construction work at the French military airfield Lahr.
Referent für Außenwirtschaft bei der Industrie- und Handelskammer Baden-Baden.
1951 als Sachbearbeiter (referent) zur Daimler-Benz AG, Stuttgart (under influence of the Flick-Konzern)
1953 Leiter des Hauptsekretariats und Assistent des Vorstandsvorsitzenden (head of the board of directors) Dr. Fritz Könecke
(* 1890, former Vorstandsvorsitzender der “Continental Gummiwerke AG“, 1941 Wehrwirtschaftsführer, 42 Kriegsverdienstkreuz I. Klasse)

Personal-Akte Schleyer im BA-Zwischenarchiv Dahlwitz-Hoppegarten


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[Martin Månsson]

Vielen dank Herr Doktor!

Martin

[Dieter Zinke]

It was a great pleasure to help you

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[jmh8300]

I never realised Schleyer was an SS officer, until I was browsing Wikipedia and saw their article on him. It mostly agrees with the above informed posts, while adding some personal details such as the fact that he married the daughter of an SA Obergruppenführer (Emil Ketterer).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanns-Martin_Schleyer

Regards

jmh

[Andreas Schulz]

21.10.1939 Schleyer married Waltraut Ketterer (geb. 21.01.1916), daughter of the SA-Sanitäts-Obergruppenführer Dr. Emil Ketterer (his bio will be in the book about the higher SA leaders by Mike Miller and myself).

AnDie