- Hans Jüttner
Hans Jüttner (
2 March 1894 –24 May 1965 ) was head of the SS's Main Leadership Office and also an SSObergruppenführer .Jüttner was born in Schmiegel (Śmigiel) in the
Province of Posen . After finishing "Gymnasium", Jüttner joined the army as a volunteer and took part inWorld War I . By 1915 he had been promoted tolieutenant , and he was discharged from the army in 1920 with the rank offirst lieutenant . To keep his head above water financially, he worked as asales man, from 1928 as a freelancer.In 1933 Jüttner became a university sport teacher in Breslau (Wrocław). At this time he also joined the SA and was installed in the SA Collegiate Office. In 1934, Jüttner also became leader of the SA training body in
Munich .In May 1935, he switched to the SS combat support force ("
SS-Verfügungstruppe " or SS-VT), which later became theWaffen-SS . Jüttner was promoted on1 September 1936 to SSSturmbannführer and appointed to the SS-VT inspection department inBerlin . By 1939, he had become the Inspector of Reserve Troops of the SS-VT-Division. From early 1940, Jüttner was leading the SS-VT command office.In the summer of the same year, Jüttner was promoted to chief of staff of the newly created SS Main Leadership Office ("SS-Führungshauptamt"), which was responsible for the Waffen-SS's organizational and administrative leadership. This also included the administration of
Nazi concentration camps in theThird Reich .In June 1942, after having been promoted to SS
Obergruppenführer , Jüttner was also given the military rank ofGeneral . On30 January 1943 , Jüttner reached the high point of his career when he became Leader of the SS Main Leadership Office.Heinrich Himmler appointed Jüttner Chief of "Army Armament and Commander of the Reserve Army". Hereafter, Jüttner was Himmler's deputy in this area of command.Jüttner was one of those responsible for building the many
prisoner of war camp s in which Soviet prisoners of war were held.After the end of World war II Jüttner was the proprietor of a sanatorium in
Bad Toelz [ [http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/e/eichmann-adolf/transcripts/Testimony-Abroad/Hans_Juettner-01.html nizkor.org] ] , where he died.References
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