The ‘Disappearance’ of SS-Hauptscharführer Lorenz Hackenholt A Report on the 1959-63 West German Police Search for Lorenz Hackenholt, the Gas Chamber Expert of the Aktion Reinhard Extermination Camps © Michael Tregenza (Page 7) indemnity of over 10,000 Deutschemarks. There could be a connection between the indemnity and the declaration of death of her husband. It is not known whether she has received the corresponding settlement. [17] The report also stated that in Tiefenbach Frau Ilse Hackenholt lived in a small but solidly-built wooden chalet named 'Sonnenhuttle' with a Fräulein Margarete B. The two women shared the expenses and worked together in a sauna in Isny/Allgäu. The chalet was looked after by a destitute Hungarian woman. At the request of the Ludwigsburg Central Office the local Grenzpolizei in Tiefenbach kept Ilse Hackenholt and the 'Sonnenhuttle' under surveillance and were instructed to particularly note all male visitors to the premises. The surveillance report was submitted to Ludwigsburg almost exactly a year later later, on 29 November 1960, via the Kriminal-polizei office in Kempten/Allgäu. Frau Hackenholt was not questioned as the opportunity exists to interrogate a Colonel in the Ministry of Defence in Bonn, H., who knows Frau Hackenholt well and stays with her on visits to Tiefenbach. The friendship stems from their duty together in the former Wehrmacht. Colonel H. is Inspector of Training Affairs and, among other things, is also responsible for the Ordensburg (Senior Officers' Training College) at Sonthofen. In the documents available at the archive of the Central Office in Ludwigsburg there is no further mention of this long-standing relationship between Frau Ilse Hackenholt and the senior Ministry of Defence official; nor is there any indication that he was questioned about Lorenz Hackenholt. The Grenzpolizei report continued that Ilse Hackenholt lived with two women, one of whom, Fräulein von Z., was the actual owner who paid the local taxes and rates on the property. Frau Hackenholt also had a second residence at Wilhelmstrasse 10 in Jsny, Wangen district, in Allgäu, Württemberg. Her two female companions were described as a Susanne von Z., a secretary, who has resided in Tiefenbach since 1952; and a certain Ilona S. from Budapest in Hungary who had lived in the village since 1956, after the Hungarian Uprising. He husband had been a General. The report continues: Frau Hackenholt was privately employed at the Wilhelmsbad Spa in Jsny/Allgäu until October 1960. She was a good worker and well liked. Frau Hackenholt came to Tiefenbach with Fräulein von Z. after the war. They knew each other from the former Wehrmacht. They use an old Volkswagen car. The women are respected in the village and do not appear to be disagreeable. Close contact with the rest of the inhabitants does not exist, therefore nothing would be gained by questioning them. Frau Hackenholt has never been a burden on the community, and neither have the other women. It could not be ascertained whether Frau Hackenholt receives a war widow's pension. _______________ [17] Ibid., p. 200. Letter to the Ludwigsburg Central Office from Kriminalkommissar Jll of the Heilbronn Kriminalpolizei, dated 1.12.1959. Heilbronn Kriminalpolizei Daily Duty Log, Entry No. Sp. 789/59.    Back Page 7 Forward
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