Life

From 1927 to 1931 it visited the elementary school in Darmstadt and afterwards from 1931 to March 1937 the material High School in Darmstadt. The school achievements in the High School were first average, in the last years before the school leaving left them however. Therefore it came frequently to arguments with the father, a police inspector, who separated as after twelve years service with a supplying light from the realm resistance. This is to have represented the view at that time that its son belongs into tidy breed, for which he regarded the work service and the military service as suitable educating mechanisms. The attitude age for the work and military service amounted to however 17 years - on the other hand an entrance into the was possible with 16 years. Thus the father gave his written consent for the entrance into the SS.

Strongly stepped on 1 December 1937 as a relay man into the 2. SS-Totenkopfstandarte Brandenburg in Oranienburg with Berlin. He was according to its statement "“youngest recruit of the federation"”. The training existed first in normal infantry basic training. It supplemental by intensive training in the National Socialist world view. Worth particularly on ethnology one put. In the center among other things the books of the race researcher Hans Friedrich Karl Alfred rose mountain among other things National Socialist theoretician were located. The basic training took 6 months. Already in the second month of the training, thus in January 1938, he had at the age of only sixteen one half years the task to guard as an external guard of prisoners in the KZ Oranienburg. After expiration of the six months it was shifted at the end of of June 1938 after a short vacation to the KZ beech forest.

There he had to care for a rider course of horses and in the guard service was also later used. After one year service it was promoted on 1 January 1938 to the SS-Sturmmann and on 1 August 1939 to SS-foreman. With outbreak of the war on 1 September 1939 he was a SS-foreman and group leader. It was used as recruit teacher from September to December 1939 in beech forest. Then the Rekrutenregment was shifted to the KZ Dachau. Here it remained until 1940. Subsequently, he came to the awake and honour battalion to Prague. On 1 June 1940 it was carried to the In August 1940 it was shifted as a group leader to the SS-regiment "“Westland"” to Munich. Here it drew itself by a fall of the horse a double fracture of the lower leg too. It lay 6 week in the military hospital and then - with further in need of treatmentness - "“garrison-usable"” was written and dismisses. He did not come therefore for the employment at an active front regiment into question and to the awake battalion Dachau was carried back. Here it was used from November to December 1940 as external guard.

On 15 December 1940 came it and about 20 to 40 to Auschwitz. First it was there employed and following as block leaders in block 7 (the later block 22) into the political department of the camp Gestapo in the KZ Auschwitz Birkenau until 1943. In the block controlled by him primarily Polish pupils and student were arrested in the age up to 25 years. In May 1941 he came into the political department, where him soon the line of the photograph department became to transfer. Hans's strong was one of the most brutal SS-people in Auschwitz. All Jews also the strong were called, let he kill immediately. Newborn children it threw other prisoners (unproven-measured) in an excavator bucket with cold water drown to let and alive into a fire.

Since strong wanted to terminate its education, he could be given time off by Christmas 1941 until March 1942. It put to 13. March 1942 as external one in the Justus Liebig High School its Abitur examination off, whereby its essay topic reads: "“The release of Germany from the chains of the Versailler of contract by Adolf Hitler"”. Subsequently, it took its activity in Auschwitz. It was promoted on 1 September 1942 to upper crowd leader. In the summer 1942 he requested one study vacation, that it from 1 December 1942 up to 31. March 1943 was granted. It was registered on 8 December 1942 to the Johann Wolfgang Goethe university in Frankfurt/Main. It studied one term Rechstwissenschaft up to 31. March 1943.

During its study it, so its own instruction, addressed a request for transfer to the August Heissmeyer. After completion of the study vacation it acknowledged on 1 April 1943 with the director/conductor of the political department of, Maximilian Grabner, again. By Grabner it was communicated to it that he was kommandiert after Dachau effective 1 April 1943 to an instruction course. 4 days later it began its service in Dachau. The training course of "“leader training"” lasted up to 25. May 1943. With effect of 15. May 1943 it is shifted to the SS-Panzergrenadierdivision "“the realm"”. At the east front it was wounded twice and fled 1945 from Soviet shank.

After 1945

After end of war strong submerged first. 1948 classified it the arbitration board Darmstadt under the group of the less-loaded, and on its appointment he was classified 1950 in the course of the Entnazifinzierung as a It took up a study of the agriculture and and put the conclusion down for the teacher career. First he taught later at the agriculture school in with Cologne and in Darmstadt. He taught the fan civics, agricultural engineering, agriculture and plant protection. It was considered as a correct and reliable teacher, who controlled its instruction material sovereign.

In the course of the investigations of the LV crimes in the KZ Auschwitz Birkenau strong is arrested for the first time 1959 and heard by the Ludwigsburger Kriminalobermeister Alfred Aedtner. Few weeks later it was from the remand to dismiss, because it told the examining magistrate treuherzig, "“in Auschwitz, but only than horse male nurses of the SS-commander . To the Untermauerung of this legend even was a photo, how it held as alleged "“horse male nurses"” the horse of the SS-commander at the

On 20 December 1963 the process begins Romans before the court of assizes against member of the security guards of the KZ Auschwitz Birkenau in Frankfurt/Main in at the regional court Frankfurt. In this time strong drove weekly between Darmstadt and Frankfurt back and forth. It did not apply only of "“slight offenses"” accused, with those in opinion of the court of assizes "“Fluchtverdacht and no fear of collusion existed"”. This impression upright strong can keep three further months, to the witness Josef Kral (prisoner No. 17401 in the KZ Auschwitz Birkenau from June 1941 until May 1943) to strong with the following statement loaded:

'' I saw, how strong with a Schaufelstiel killed two prisoners. And it shot a prisoner named Isaak. He forced the Isaak only, a comrade and then its own father, Isaaks father, to drown in a water pit.

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