Hans Lammers during World War 2 in c.1939-c.1940 possibly during Battle Of France
Hans Heinrich Lammers (German ; Hans Heinrich Lammers ; Born ; 27 May 1879 in Lubliniec ,Silesia ,Prussia , Germany (Today Poland )–Died ; 4 January 1962 in Düsseldorf ,North Rhine-Westphalia ,West Germany ) was a Nazi German politician and a cruel Nazi War Criminal . He was a member of Hitler 's Cabinet he was also a SS-Obergruppenführer in the Schutzstaffel/SS Secret Police . Hans Heinrich Lammers was on 27 May 1879 in Lublinitz in Silesia ,Prussia in the German Empire (Now Today : Poland ) he joined the Imperial German Army in 1914 during The Great War at age 35 when Germany and Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia ,Russia and France after Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip a Bosnian-Serb . During World War I , he got the Iron Cross in 1914 . After World War 1 ended in 1918 and when Kaiser Wilhelm II was exiled to the Netherlands and stayed in the Netherlands until 1941 when Kaiser Wilhelm II died at age 82 just a year after the Battle of France in 1940 and 21 year’s after World War 1 ended in 1918 . Hans Lammers was sentenced 20 year’s but 10 years from 1949-1959 instead and he died in 1962 at the age of 82 just 17 year’s after World War 2 and the Holocaust ended in 1945 .
Hans Heinrich Lammers joined the Nazi Party in 1932 at age 53 during the Weimar Era Germany from 1918-1933 he was also involved in Night of the Long Knives in 1934 as well as Kristallnacht in 1938 . In 1940 at age 61 he became SS-Obergruppenfuhrer in the Schutzstaffel Secret Police under the command of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler and deputy head of the SS and head of the Gestapo Reinhard Heydrich . He was in the SS as a SS-Obergruppenfuhrer until April 1945 he was arrested by Adolf Hitler and removed from power by the Waffen-SS possibly before Battle of Berlin . He was going to be sentenced 20 year’s in prison but 10 year’s instead from 1949-1959 since he was a Old aged man .
All ministers were
NSDAP members except where indicated ("ind" = nominally independent). Most of them later became NSDAP members, except Von Papen, Hugenberg and Von Eltz-Rübenach.