Hans Boetticher

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Hans Boetticher
Kriegsgerichtsrat Dr. jur. Hans Boetticher (1899-1988).jpg
Kriegsgerichtsrat Dr. jur. Hans Boetticher
Birth name Hans Julius Karl August Boetticher
Birth date 8 September 1899(1899-09-08)
Place of birth Prinzenthal, Landkreis Bromberg, Province of Posen, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
Death date 23 September 1988 (aged 89)
Place of death Munich, Bavaria, West Germany
Allegiance  German Empire
 Weimar Republic
 National Socialist Germany
Service/branch Iron Cross of the Luftstreitkräfte.png Imperial German Army
War Ensign of the Reichswehr, 1919 - 1935.png Preliminary Reichswehr
Balkenkreuz.jpg Heer
Rank Generalrichter
Battles/wars World War I
World War II
Awards Iron Cross
War Merit Cross (1939)
Relations ∞ 1927 Erica Brockmann
Other work Lawyer in Saal an der Donau, later Munich (post-WWII)

Hans Julius Karl August Boetticher (8 September 1899 – 23 September 1988) was a German officer and jurist. As a military Generalrichter or Judge General during World War II, he was a Wehrmacht official (Wehrmachtbeamter) with the rank of general.

Life (chronology)

Witness statement by Dr. Boetticher on the occasion of the indictment against Dr. jur. Wilhelm von Ammon (1903–1992) during the Judges' Trial in Nuremberg (from 17 February 1947 to 4 December 1947) concerning the "Night and Fog Decree" and death sentences of the Special Court against terrorists of the French resistance but also against a few British spies in the French State.
  • 21.6.1917 Joined the Replacement Battalion of the 66th Field Artillery Regiment (4. Badisches Feld-Artillerie-Regiment Nr. 66)
  • 15.9.1917 To the war front, servive in the 7th Company/4. Badisches Feld-Artillerie-Regiment Nr. 66
  • 11.1.1918 Transferred to the 1st Company/4. Badisches Feld-Artillerie-Regiment Nr. 66
  • 9.4.1918 Slightly wounded (remained with the troops)
  • 6.10.1919 Retired from the Preliminary Reichswehr
  • 1919 to 1922 Studied law in Königsberg, Munich and Breslau
  • 1923 to 1926 Legal preparatory service in Bartenstein and Rößel
  • 20.5.1924 Promotion to Dr. jur. (dissertation title: Die Schadlosbürgschaft)
  • 1927 to 1934 Lawyer in Bartenstein (East Prussia)
  • 1.4.1933 Joined the NSDAP
  • 1.4.1935 Wehrmachtbeamter with the military court of the 21st Division (Elbing)
    • As a professionally qualified law graduate, he entered the military administration as a Wehrmacht official in the high grade army judicial service (Höherer Heeresjustizdienst).
  • 15.10.1936 With the military court of the VII. Armeekorps (München)
  • 23.5.1939 With the Wehrmacht High Court of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (Prague)
  • 20.12.1940 to 30.09.1941 Commanded to the military court of the 17th Army (17. Armee)
  • 1.3.1942 In the staff of the Wehrmacht Plenipotentiary to the Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia
  • 8.5.1942 Commanded to the Court of the Military Commander in France
  • 1.7.1942 Officially transferred to the Court of the Military Commander in France
  • 29.9.1944 Army Group Judge G (Heeresgruppenrichter G)
    • In March 1945, General Judge Boetticher was ordered by Commander-in-Chief Paul Hausser to set up a mobile “flying court martial” in Heidelberg to combat troop dissolution phenomena where deserters were sentenced according to international martial law. On 5 May 1945, the capitulation of Army Group G was signed near Munich. The capitulation came into effect one day later.

Family

Hans was the son of Protestant pastor Karl Boetticher (1866–1936) from Crone an der Brahe (where Karl's father was the mayor) and his wife Luise, née Richter (b. 1874). His father, pastor in Bromberg and as of 1896 in Prinzenthal, retired on 31 December 1911 due to a serious heart condition.[1]

Marriage

On 18 March 1927, Dr. jur. Boetticher married his fiancée Erica Brockmann (b. 1900). They had three daughters born 1927, 1929 and 1944.

Promotions

German Army

  • 17 September 1918 Leutnant (2nd Lieutenant)
  • 1 August 1938 Oberleutnant d. R. (1st Lieutenant of the Reserves) with Rank Seniority (RDA) from 1 September 1929

Military jurisdiction

  • 1 April 1935 Kriegsgerichtsrat (War Court Councilor = Captain / Major) with effect from 1 January 1935
    • another source states 28 March 1935 effective 1 March 1935; As per the 22 December 1934 regulations, he would wear the rank insignia of an Hauptmann for three years before being granted permission to adopt those of a Major. Interestingly, in the case of Dr. Boetticher, he was promoted to Oberkriegsgerichtsrat on 6 February 1937. By the strict application of the regulations, therefore, he would have swapped his captain's boards for those of a lieutenant colonel.[2]
  • 6 February 1937 Oberkriegsgerichtsrat (Senior War Court Councilor = Lieutenant Colonel) with effect from 1 February 1937
  • 1 September 1939 Oberstkriegsgerichtsrat (Chief War Court Councilor = Colonel)
  • 30 January 1943 Chefrichter[3] (Chief Judge = Major General) with effect from 1 November 1942
    • 9 June 1944 renamed Generalrichter with effect from 1 May 1944
      • With the formation of the Special Troop Service (Truppensonderdienst) in May 1944, he was transferred as an active officer in the rank of Generalrichter into the judicial branch of that service.

Awards and decorations

References

  1. ↑ Die Presse – Ostmärkische Tageszeitung, Thorn, 5 January 1912, p. 2
  2. ↑ Wehrmachtbeamte-Heer
  3. ↑ This rank pretty much appears to be ignored in the literature concerning Wehrmachtbeamte uniforms but numerous army and Luftwaffe justice officials were promoted to this rank on 1 October 1942 with subsequent further promotions of officials to this rank until the formation of the Truppensonderdienst in May 1944.
  4. ↑ Generalrichter Dr. Hans Boetticher (1899-1988)
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