Heinz Lammerding

Heinz Lammerding
Born (1905-08-27)27 August 1905
Dortmund, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
Died 13 January 1971(1971-01-13) (aged 65–66)
Bad Tölz, Bavaria, West Germany
Allegiance  Nazi Germany
Service/branch Waffen SS
Years of service 1933–45
Rank Brigadeführer
Commands held
Battles/wars World War II
Awards Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

Heinz Lammerding (born 27 August 1905, Dortmund, Germany – d. 13 January 1971, Bad Tölz, Germany) was a Brigadeführer (Brigadier General) in the Waffen-SS and a commander of 2. SS-Division Das Reich.

Post-war

In 1953, he was tried for war crimes for the massacre of Tulle and Oradour-sur-Glane massacre and sentenced to death in absentia by the court of Bordeaux, but he wasn't extradited by West Germany.[1]

According to Danny S. Parker, Lammerding had been tried in West Germany, convicted of war crimes and served a prison sentence. He therefore was not subject to extradition under the Bonn constitution, much to the consternation of the French. They threatened to send in a commando unit to seize him as the Israelis did in the case of Adolf Eichmann. Before this could transpire, Lammerding died.[2]

Lammerding worked as a civil engineer in Düsseldorf until his retirement and died of cancer at the age of sixty-six in 1971.

In the afterword of "The hanging garden", Ian Rankin claims that the British were involved in his capture:

General Lammerding was the commanding officer. On 9 June, he'd ordered the deaths of ninety-nine hostages in Tulle. He also gave the order for the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre. Later on in the war, Lammerding was captured by the British, who refused his extradition to France. Instead, he was returned to Düsseldorf, where he ran a successful company until his death in 1971.[3][4][5]

Awards

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References

Citations

  1. ↑ Le maire d'Oradour-sur-Glane : « Il était dénué de toute humanité », Le Parisien, 14 August 2007 (French)
  2. ↑ Parker 2014, p. 386.
  3. ↑ the hanging garden, °1998 by Ian Rankin
  4. ↑ The "assassin of Oradour-sur-Glane" died at the age of 86, The World of 14 August 2007.
  5. ↑ L'"assassin d'Oradour-sur-Glane" est mort à l'âge de 86 ans, Le Monde (with AFP), 14 August 2007 (French)
  6. ↑ Patzwall & Scherzer 2001, p. 266.
  7. ↑ Fellgiebel 2000, p. 282.
  8. ↑ Scherzer 2007, p. 490.

Bibliography

  • Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer (2000) [1986]. Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939–1945 — Die Inhaber der höchsten Auszeichnung des Zweiten Weltkrieges aller Wehrmachtteile [The Bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939–1945 — The Owners of the Highest Award of the Second World War of all Wehrmacht Branches] (in German). Friedberg, Germany: Podzun-Pallas. ISBN 978-3-7909-0284-6. 
  • Parker, Danny S. (2014). Hitler's Warrior: The Life and Wars of SS Colonel Jochen Peiper. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0306821547. 
  • Patzwall, Klaus D.; Scherzer, Veit (2001). Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941 – 1945 Geschichte und Inhaber Band II [The German Cross 1941 – 1945 History and Recipients Volume 2] (in German). Norderstedt, Germany: Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall. ISBN 978-3-931533-45-8. 
  • Scherzer, Veit (2007). Die Ritterkreuzträger 1939–1945 Die Inhaber des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939 von Heer, Luftwaffe, Kriegsmarine, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm sowie mit Deutschland verbündeter Streitkräfte nach den Unterlagen des Bundesarchives [The Knight's Cross Bearers 1939–1945 The Holders of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939 by Army, Air Force, Navy, Waffen-SS, Volkssturm and Allied Forces with Germany According to the Documents of the Federal Archives] (in German). Jena, Germany: Scherzers Miltaer-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-938845-17-2. 
Military offices
Preceded by
SS-Obergruppenführer Walter Krüger		 Commander of SS Division "Das Reich"
23 October 1943 – 24 July 1944 		Succeeded by
SS-Standartenführer Christian Tychsen
Preceded by
SS-Brigadeführer Otto Baum		 Commander of SS Division "Das Reich"
23 October 1944 – 20 January 1945 		Succeeded by
SS-Standartenführer Karl Kreutz
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