Hans Krüger
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Hans Krüger (6 July 1902 – 3 November 1971) was a German Nazi Party activist and later a politician in the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Education and work
Krüger was born in Neustettin (Szczecinek), Province of Pomerania. He completed studies devoted to political sciences and law in 1922 and afterwards worked as a judge.
[edit] Nazi activity
Krüger participated in the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich. At the time he was a member of the Nazi Party and other Nazi organisations such as the Reichsbund Deutscher Beamter (German Civil Service), the NS-Rechtswahrerbund (National Socialist Lawyers Association), and the Volksbund für das Deutschtum im Ausland (Association for Germanism Abroad). In 1943 he was made an NSDAP-Ortsgruppenleiter in Chojnice (Konitz). He worked there as a judge, and his work included passing out several death sentences. From 1943-1945 he was an officer in the German army.
[edit] Post war activity
After the war Krüger became a CDU politician and co-founder of the Federation of Expellees, joining them in 1948 and serving as their first president from 1959-1964. He was also a member of the German Bundestag from 1957-1965. He became the German Minister for Expellees, Refugees, and War Claimants in 1963, but lost that job in 1964 after it became known that he was involved with war crimes and crimes against humanity.[1] However, he was not sentenced as the German court concluded that evidence of his guilt could not be found.
Krüger died in Bonn.
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