Heinz Lammerding
{{short description|German general}}
{{Infobox criminal
| name = Heinz Lammerding
| birth_date = {{birth date|1905|8|27|df=y}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|1971|1|13|1905|8|27|df=y}}
| image = Lammerding.jpg
| image_size = 160
| caption =
| birth_place = Dortmund, German Empire
| death_place = Bad Tölz, West Germany
| trial =
| known_for = Tulle murders
Oradour-sur-Glane massacre
| conviction_penalty = Death (in absentia)
| conviction_status = Deceased
| module = {{Infobox military person |embed=yes|embed_title=SS career
|allegiance=Nazi Germany
|branch=Waffen-SS
|serviceyears=1933–1945
| rank = SS-Gruppenführer
|commands=SS Division Das Reich
|unit=
|battles=World War II
|awards=Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
}}
| conviction = War crimes
}}
Heinz Lammerding (27 August 1905 – 13 January 1971) was a German SS officer convicted of war crimes during the Nazi era. During World War II, he commanded the SS Panzer Division Das Reich that perpetrated the Tulle and the Oradour-sur-Glane massacres in occupied France. After the war, Lammerding was convicted in absentia for having ordered the murder of approximately 750 French civilians, but remained protected by Germany after serving a prison sentence there.
War-crimes trial
In 1953, Lammerding was tried in France for war crimes, for ordering two massacres in 1944: at Tulle and at Oradour-sur-Glane. He was sentenced to death in absentia by the court of Bordeaux, but he was never extradited from West Germany[http://www.leparisien.fr/home/info/politique/articles.htm?articleid=276175395 Le maire d'Oradour-sur-Glane : « Il était dénué de toute humanité »]{{Dead link|date=April 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Le Parisien, 14 August 2007 {{in lang|fr}} nor was he ever sentenced by a German court. According to Danny S. Parker, Lammerding had already been tried in West Germany, convicted of war crimes and had 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. However, before this could occur, Lammerding died in 1971 from cancer.{{sfn|Parker|2014|p=386}}
Funeral
His funeral in 1971 turned into a reunion of over 200 former SS personnel.{{Cite web|title=Oradour: Ort des Schmerzes, 09.06.2014 (Friedensratschlag)|url=http://www.ag-friedensforschung.de/themen/Kriegsgeschichte1/oradour.html|access-date=2020-11-03|website=www.ag-friedensforschung.de}}
Awards
- German Cross in Gold on 24 April 1943 as SS-Standartenführer and commander of SS-Regiment "Thule"Patzwall & Scherzer 2001, p. 266.
- Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 11 April 1944 as SS-Oberführer and commander of Kampfgruppe "Das Reich"Scherzer 2007, p. 490.
References
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=Bibliography=
{{Refbegin}}
- {{Cite book
|last=Parker
|first=Danny S.
|authorlink=
|year=2014
|title=Hitler's Warrior: The Life and Wars of SS Colonel Jochen Peiper
|location=
|publisher=Da Capo Press
|isbn=978-0306821547
}}
- {{Cite book
|last1=Patzwall
|first1=Klaus D.
|last2=Scherzer
|first2=Veit
|year=2001
|title=Das Deutsche Kreuz 1941 – 1945 Band II
|trans-title=The German Cross 1941 – 1945 Volume 2
|language=German
|location=Norderstedt, Germany
|publisher=Verlag Klaus D. Patzwall
|isbn=978-3-931533-45-8
}}
- {{Cite book
|last=Scherzer
|first=Veit
|year=2007
|title=Die Ritterkreuzträger 1939–1945
|trans-title=The Knight's Cross Bearers 1939–1945
|language=German
|location=Jena, Germany
|publisher=Scherzers Militaer-Verlag
|isbn=978-3-938845-17-2
}}
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before= SS-Obergruppenführer Walter Krüger|
after= SS-Standartenführer Christian Tychsen|
title= Commander of SS Division Das Reich|
years=23 October 1943 – 24 July 1944
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before= SS-Brigadeführer Otto Baum|
after= SS-Standartenführer Karl Kreutz|
title= Commander of SS Division Das Reich|
years=23 October 1944 – 20 January 1945
}}
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Category:Deaths from cancer in Germany
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Category:Recipients of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross