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Hanss Albin Rauter

Rauter was 'Generalkommissar für das Sicherheitswesen' in the Netherlands.

Person

  • Johann Baptist Albin Rauter
  • Born on: Feb. 4, 1895
  • Born in: Klagenfurt, Duitsland
  • Died on: March 25, 1949
  • Died in: Den Haag, Nederland

In early 1921, Hanss Albin Rauter joined a volunteer corps in Silesia. From 1927, he was an active National Socialist in Austria. From May 1940 on, Rauter was[1] 'Generalkommissar für das Sicherheitswesen' in the Netherlands, and in that capacity played an important role in the deportation of Jews, the deployment of forced labourers and the fight against illegal activity. On 6 March 1945, he was severely injured during an attack.[2] A few weeks later, Het Parool, at that time still an illegal paper, reported that earlier reports about Rauter's death were incorrect.[3]

On 25 March 1949, the death sentence that had been pronounced against Rauter was carried out.[4]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Referred to by Anne as some German bigwig. Anne Frank, Diary Version B, 27 March 1943, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty,  London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  2. ^ Wikipedia: Hanns Albin Rauter.
  3. ^ Het Parool, 27 maart 1945.
  4. ^ De Waarheid, 25 maart 1949.