- Hans Krüger
Hans Krüger (
6 July 1902 –3 November 1971 ) was a GermanNazi Party activist and later apolitician in the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).Biography
Education and work
Krüger was born in Neustettin (Szczecinek),
Province of Pomerania . He completed studies devoted topolitical science s and law in 1922 and afterwards worked as ajudge .Nazi activity
Krüger participated in the
Beer Hall Putsch inMunich . At the time he was a member of theNazi 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 inChojnice ("Konitz"). He worked there as a judge, and his work included passing out severaldeath sentence s. From 1943-1945 he was an officer in the German army.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 GermanBundestag 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. [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0807828637&id=A5aMJgGR1ZcC&pg=PA192&lpg=PA192&dq=%22Hans+Kruger%22&sig=xmVrUHoyeq9x9pIns_0ApasmhAc] However, he was not sentenced as the German court concluded that evidence of his guilt could not be found.Krüger died in
Bonn .ee also
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Federation of Expellees
*Nazi Party
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