Ludwig Hahn
| Ludwig Hahn | |
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| Born |
23 January 1908 Eitzen, Hanover, German Empire |
| Died | 10 November 1986 (aged 78) |
| Allegiance |
 Nazi Germany
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| Service/branch |
 Schutzstaffel Gestapo
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| Relations | Johannes Steinhoff (brother-in-law) |
Ludwig Hermann Karl Hahn (23 January 1908 – 10 November 1986) was a German Nazi war criminal who participated in the destruction and liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto. He was trained as a lawyer and held multiple political and security positions during his career with the Schutzstaffel (SS). Hahn died in prison in 1986 after being convicted for war crimes.
The son of a farmer of the same name, Hahn was born in Eitzen (now: Hanstedt, Uelzen), in the Province of Hanover in 1908. After graduating from the Lüneburg Realgymnasium in 1927, Hahn went on to study law at the University of Göttingen and the University of Jena. He joined the Nazi Party in 1930 and soon afterwards joined the Sturmabteilung (SA) as a Scharführer. Hahn left the SA in 1932 to concentrate on his studies but joined the Schutzstaffel (SS) in 1933, eventually rising to the rank of Standartenführer (colonel). Hahn obtained his doctorate of law (Dr. jur.) and qualified as a lawyer in 1935. Soon after he took on an administrative post with the Gestapo and was transferred to its Berlin headquarters in 1936. Hahn would later head the Gestapo office in Weimar from 1937 to 1939.
During the invasion of Poland in 1939, Hahn served as leader of Einsatzkommando 1/I of Einsatzgruppe I under the command of SS-Gruppenführer Bruno Streckenbach. During this time Hahn was involved in Operation Tannenberg the Nazi extermination campaign targeting the Polish intelligentsia. Beginning in January 1940 Hahn took over as Chief of the Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD) for the occupied city of Kraków. Hahn was later transferred to Bratislava in August 1940 where he served as SS envoy to the government of the Slovak Republic.
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