# Hermann Hackmann > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Hermann_Hackmann > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Hermann_Hackmann.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Hackmann > Source revision: 1284449120 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|German war criminal}} {{Infobox military person | name = Hermann Hackmann | image = Herman Hackman.jpg | caption = Hackmann in U.S. custody (1947) | birth_date = {{birth date|1913|11|11}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|1994|08|20|1913|11|11}} | birth_place = [Osnabrück](/source/Osnabr%C3%BCck), [German Empire](/source/German_Empire) | death_place = [Uslar, Germany](/source/Uslar%2C_Germany) | allegiance = {{Flagcountry|Nazi Germany}} | rank = ''[SS](/source/Schutzstaffel)-[Hauptsturmführer](/source/Hauptsturmf%C3%BChrer)'' }} '''Hermann Wilhelm Hackmann''' (November 11, 1913 – August 20, 1994) was a German [war criminal](/source/war_criminal), Nazi SS captain in two [extermination camps](/source/extermination_camps) during World War II. He was a roll call officer at KL [Buchenwald](/source/Buchenwald), and lead guard in charge of the so-called protective custody at [Majdanek concentration camp](/source/Majdanek_concentration_camp) in German-occupied [Poland](/source/Poland). Described as a brutal man with a cynical sense of humour, Hackmann was tried three times. The first time, he was prosecuted for murder and embezzlement and sentenced to death by [SS](/source/Schutzstaffel) Judge [Georg Konrad Morgen](/source/Georg_Konrad_Morgen) in connection with the [Koch](/source/Karl-Otto_Koch) trial. However, Hackmann's sentence was later commuted to a prison term. He spent at least five months as a regular prisoner in [Dachau concentration camp](/source/Dachau_concentration_camp) before being transferred to a [penal battalion](/source/penal_battalion).David A. Hackett, ''The Buchenwald Report'', {{ISBN|0-8133-3363-6}}, {{ISBN|978-0813333632}}.{{Cite book |last=Mailänder |first=Elissa |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OFAVBwAAQBAJ&dq=Hermann+Hackmann+koch&pg=PT316 |title=Female SS Guards and Workaday Violence: The Majdanek Concentration Camp, 1942-1944 |date=2015-03-01 |publisher=MSU Press |isbn=978-1-62895-231-5 |language=en}} ==Trials== Hackmann came from [Osnabrück](/source/Osnabr%C3%BCck). At the age of 24 he first assumed the post of SS officer at Buchenwald. After the war, Hackmann was prosecuted this time by the U.S. government at the [Buchenwald Trial](/source/Buchenwald_Trial) of 1947. He was one of twenty-two Nazis [sentenced to death](/source/capital_punishment) for his role in the [crimes against humanity](/source/crimes_against_humanity) committed at [Buchenwald](/source/Buchenwald), though the sentence was commuted to [life imprisonment](/source/life_imprisonment) in 1948. Details of his activities in Buchenwald that surfaced during the trial portray him as a man who was greatly feared by the prisoners and prone to violence and using different ways to torture prisoners. Inmates were frequently beaten, kicked and whipped by Hackmann with sticks and whips. He was also known to make prisoners kneel so he could kick them in the scrotum. There was a rule against spitting on the camp road and when Hackmann saw some spit on the ground he forced the nearest inmate to lick it up. One witness testified that he had two block leaders bend a birch tree where he made a Jewish man hold onto it. When the block leaders released the tree, the man was flung into the air into a stone quarry.United States vs. Prince Josias zu Waldeck et al, Case # 000-50-9, "Review and Recommendations of the Deputy Judge Advocate for War Crimes," November 15, 1947. In 1950, Hackmann's sentence was further reduced to 25 years.{{Cite book |last=Buchenwald |first=Gedenkstätte |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d7WlV23kNoUC&q=Hackmann&pg=PA44 |title=Buchenwald Concentration Camp, 1937-1945: A Guide to the Permanent Historical Exhibition |date=2004 |publisher=Wallstein Verlag |isbn=978-3-89244-695-8 |language=en}} He was paroled in 1955.{{Cite news |date=1975-11-26 |title=Hermann Hackmann |pages=12 |work=The Pioneer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/205265/hermann-hackmann/ |access-date=2022-07-28}} During the [Third Majdanek trial](/source/Majdanek_trials) between 1975 and 1981, he was sentenced to an additional ten years imprisonment for two counts of serving as joint accessory to murder of at least 141 prisoners at KL Lublin / Majdanek concentration camp.[http://www.landtag.nrw.de/portal/WWW/dokumentenarchiv/Dokument?Id=ZLANIN0111|6|6 ''Landgericht Düsseldorf spricht Urteile im Majdanek-Prozeß''], ''Landtag Intern'' vom 26. Juni 2001 (Landtag Nordrhein-Westfalen). {{in lang|de}} ==References== {{reflist}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hackmann, Hermann}} Category:1913 births Category:1994 deaths Category:Buchenwald concentration camp personnel Category:SS-Hauptsturmführer Category:German people convicted of torture Category:German prisoners sentenced to death Category:People convicted in the Dachau trials Category:People convicted in the Majdanek trials Category:People convicted in the Buchenwald trials Category:People convicted of murder by Germany Category:Military personnel from Osnabrück Category:Prisoners sentenced to death by the United States military Category:People condemned by Nazi courts Category:Waffen-SS personnel --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Hermann Hackmann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Hackmann) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Hackmann?action=history)). 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