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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

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Stuttgart Kriminalpolizei who had a warrent to search the premises. But nothing of interest was found concerning Lorenz Hackenholt or his possible whereabouts. [90] In the meantime, because of the alleged close connection between Hackenholt and the Hering's in Italy and the use of their Stuttgart apartment after the war as a 'comrades information centre', SK III/a in Munich requested the Baden-Württemberg State Police to check everyone in the Stuttgart area with a name similar to the alias 'Jensen' or something similar, mentioned six months earlier by Erich Bauer in Berlin-Tegel prison. There were only five men who came within Hackenholt's age group with such names:

  1. Arthur Jansen, born on 3 September 1915 in Frankfurt-am-Main, a salesman domiciled at Schimmelreiterweg 15 in Stuttgart-Mohringen;
  2. Heinrich Jansen, born on 4 January 1920 in Wursalen, a petrol pump attendant domiciled at Boblingerstrasse 37 in Sindelfingen;
  3. Philip Janson, born on 22 February 1914 in Budapest, also a salesman, domiciled at Rheinlandstrasse 18 in GIeslingen;
  4. Kurt Janzen, born on 2 June 1912 in Stuttgart, another salesman, domiciled at Grabenstrasse 8 in Heidenhain;
  5. Joachim Jansen, born on 26 July 1917 in Berlin, a sales representative domiciled at Germersheimer Strasse 7 in Bruchsal. [91]

All five men were discreetly investigated by the Baden-Württemberg Kriminalpolizei during the next two months and cleared of all suspicion after comparison of photographs and samples of handwriting. [92]

It was time to interrogate Ilse Hackenholt again, this time more rigorously and in greater detail. An officers of SK III/a in Munich contacted the Genzpolizei Inspectorate in Sonthofen near Tiefenbach and requested that they summon Frau Hackenholt for questioning. Two SK III/a officers travelled to Sonthofen to conduct the interrogation, arranged for 31 October 1961.

At the end of a long day's questioning at the Inspectorate of the Grenzpolizei in Sonthofen, Ilse Hackenholt signed an eight-page sworn statement, and in view of the evidence so far indicating her husband's survivial after the war, it made very interesting reading. After being cautioned by the officers about the severe penalties for committing perjury, Ilse Hackenholt stated as follows:

In 1939, I cannot give an exact date today after such a long time, I lived in Berlin at Kurfürstendamm 112. On the same floor lived my future husband who at that time was a member of the Waffen-SS. I did not know then which military base he belonged to. After we had been together for a good two years we were married in November 1941 at the Registry

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[90] Ibid., ZStL 208 AR-Z 252/59 (Belzec Case), pp. 1379-1380. Report by the Sonderkommission of the Baden-Wurttemberg State Police to SK III/a in Munich, dated 16.8.1961/Ludwigsburg. Daily Duty Log, Entry No. SK. ZSt. II/17-162/61.
[91] Ibid., pp. 1593-1594. Report dated 17.7.1961/Ludwigsburg. Daily Duty Log, Entry No. SK. ZSt. I/18-162/61.
[92] Ibid.
 
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