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 24) Hering's apartment at Sylvaner Weg 2 in Stuttgart-Fellbach 'was practically the centre where one could learn the whereabouts and fate of comrades'. [85] Dubois' statement was confirmed to the SK III/a officers by Heinrich Gley who had also written several times to Frau Hering after the war. [86] Gley had been particularly friendly with Gottlieb Hering, both in Poland and in Italy, and stated on oath an interesting fact about Lorenz Hackenholt and the Herings. In Trieste in 1944, Frau Hering, at that time Fraulein Riegraf and employed as Hering's secretary, had lived in a villa with Hering and Hackenholt. This was confirmed by other witnesses who were also certain that she had known Hackenholt well and that she had almost been shot and killed, together with her future husband, during a drunken prank by Hackenholt and Gley. [87] It was because of this and other incidents that Fraulein Riegraf and Gottlieb Hering had been transferred first to Udine and then back to Stuttgart where she became a secretary in the city Police Presidium while Hering became Kriminalpolizei chief in Heilbronn. They married in March 1945 and settled in Stuttgart-Fellbach. [88] By 1961 Frau Hering was married to another Stuttgart police officer and now called Helene Schubert. On 3 August of that year she was summoned to the police station in Waiblingen near Stuttgart where she swore on oath: I do not remember a man called Hackenholt ... it is not correct that I lived together with Hackenholt in a villa. I have never lived in a villa ... I do not know whether Hackenholt had any friends or acquaintances because I do not remember a Hackenholt. I did not know such a man who probably lived under a false name in Trieste. [89] This was the first of several occasions when Frau Schubert was to commit perjury by denying all knowledge of Lorenz Hackenholt. As her apartment had been used after the war as a 'clearing house' for information about 'old comrades' from the days in Poland in Italy, it is therefore not impossible that she knew of Hackenholt's whereabouts in 1945-46. Eleven days after signing this obviously false statement in Waiblingen police station, Frau Schubert was visited in her apartment in Stuttgart-Fellbach by officers from the _______________ [85] Ibid., 208 AR-Z 251/59 (Sobibor Case), pp. 2429-2433. Report by the examining magistrate at the Regional Court in Munich I. [86] Ibid., p. 990. Report to the Senior State Prosecutor at the Regional Court in Munich I, dated 16.8.1960. During a house search by police of the Hering's apartment at Sylvaner Weg 2 in Stuttgart-Fellbach on 18.7.1961, in connection with the Belzec Case, among other items there were found seven letters to Frau Hering from Heinrich Gley, and two photographs of Gley. The return addresses on the envelopes led to Gley's arrest in Munster. [87] Ibid. [88] Ibid., p. 2440. Helene Schubert (Hering), 2.10.1963/Stuttgart. [89] Ibid., p. 2249. Helene Schubert, 3.8.1962/Waiblingen.    Back Page 24 Forward
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