Heinz Lammerding

Heinz Bernard Lammerding (born the August 27th 1905 with Dortmund and deceased the January 13rd 1971 with Bad Tölz) was a War criminal , Général Waffen-SS and German Engineer .

He was used in the Waffen-SS during the Second world war until the rank as SS-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor.

Biography

From 1923 to 1928, it continued academic works in civil engineering.

From 1928 to 1933, it was employed as tallies, then department head at the department of the town planning of Dortmund.

In 1931, it adhered to the Nazi party and engaged in SA.

In 1932, it obtained its diploma for the occupation of engineer in civil engineering.

In 1933, he became permanent member of SA (regiment SA of Paderborn).

In 1934, it was named principal of the genius of SA, then inspector of the genious with the GQG of SA.

In 1935, it was allowed with the S, then with the SS-VT, future Waffen-SS, where it was versed like S Obersturmführer (lieutenant) within the battalion of the genius of attack (SS-Pioneer-Sturmbann).

In 1937, it was promoted S Hauptsturmführer (captain) and improved at the school of officers of Braunschweig.

In 1939, it was named SS-Sturmbannführer (commander) and was charged to form, then to order the battalion of the genius of division Totenkopf .

In 1940, it led the battalion in the countryside of France and obtained the Croix of iron of 2nd class ( Eisernes Kreuz 2.Klasse ) on May 23rd, then the iron Cross of 1st class ( Eisernes Kreuz 1.Klasse ) on June 22nd for bravery with fire.

From 1940 to 1942, it was used for the staff of division Totenkopf .

In 1941, it took share in the countryside of Russia and the combat of the pocket of Demyansk, which was worth to him the medal of the face of the East. Promoted SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant-colonel), it occupied the post of head of staff of 3.SS-Infantry-Division (mot.) Totenkopf .

In autumn 1942, it was charged to reorganize and order SS-Infantry-Regiment 9 Thule in new 3.SS-Panzer-Pomegranate-Division Totenkopf .

At the beginning of 1943, promoted SS-Standartenführer (colonel), he was again chief of staff, initially of II.SS-Panzer-Korps, then SS-Obergruppenführer (lieutenant-general of army) von DER Bach-Zelewski, in charge of the fight against the partisans on the face of the East. In this last function, it signed orders of reprisals (shootings and fires of villages).

At the end of 1943, it exerted the command of various Kampfgruppen (groupings of combat of the importance of a large regiment) on the face of the East. Named SS-Oberführer (rank between colonel and general), it took the head of the Kampfgruppe Das Reich (remainder of the division of approximately 5000 men) and obtained the German gold Cross ( Deutsches Kreuz in Gold ).

In spring 1944, it accepted the Cross of knight ( Ritter Kreuz ) for all the countryside of Russia and, by special favor of the Reichsführer S Heinrich Himmler, was promoted SS-Brigadeführer (brigadier general) and was charged with reconstituting the 2.SS-Panzer-Division '' Das Reich '' in the south of France. It thus ordered the great unit when SS-Aufklärungs-Abteilung 2 (group of recognition) hung 99 Tulle inhabitants on June 9th and when a company of the 1st battalion of SS-Panzer-Pomegranate-Regiment 4 Der Führer massacred 642 inhabitants of Oradour-on-Glane on June 10th.

In summer 1944, it led 2.SS-Panzer-Division Das Reich in the battle of Normandy. Wounded in July, it was evacuated.

In autumn 1944, it found its command for the battle of the Ardennes.

At the beginning of 1945, Himmler appointed it chief of staff of the " group armées" it had took the head on the Vistula.

In spring 1945, it ordered the last division of Waffen-SS, 38.SS-Pomegranate-Division Nibelungen , partly made up of the pupil-officers of the school S of Bad Tölz.

In 1953, he was judged for war crimes for the massacre of Tulle and Oradour-on-Glane in June 1944, in France, and was condemned to death in absentia by the court of Bordeaux, but he was never extradited by the West Germany. He took again his activities of engineer in civil engineering with Düsseldorf until his retirement and died of a cancer generalized at the age of sixty-six years in 1971.

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