Hans Friedemann Goetze | |
Birth Date: | 3 November 1897 |
Birth Place: | Rendsburg, Schleswig-Holstein, German Empire |
Death Place: | Le Paradis, France |
Allegiance: | (to 1918) (to 1922) |
Branch: | Waffen-SS |
Serviceyears: | 1914-1940 |
Rank: | SS-Standartenführer |
Commands: | SS Heimwehr Danzig SS-Totenkopf Infanterie Regiment 3 |
Battles: | World War I World War II |
Awards: | Iron Cross, 1st class |
Hans Friedemann Goetze (3 November 1897 – 27 May 1940) was a Nazi Standartenführer (Colonel) of the German Waffen-SS and commander of SS Heimwehr Danzig (Danzig Home Defence). He was a son of SS-Brigadeführer Friedemann Goetze. He was shot and killed by a British sniper while leading Infanterie Regiment 3 of the 3rd SS Division Totenkopf near Le Paradis. Following the battle, the British soldiers who were taken prisoner were killed during the Le Paradis massacre.
About 1550 members of the SS Heimwehr Danzig took part in an attack on the Polish Post Office in Danzig. On 8 September 1939, members of the SS Heimwehr Danzig killed 33 Polish civilians in the village of Ksiazki.[1]
From April 1939 to April 1940 some members of his military unit took part in a mass murder near the Forest of Szpęgawsk.