Hans Schleif
Hans Philipp Oswald Schleif (23 February 1902 in Wiesbaden – 27 April 1945 in Berlin) was a German architect, architectural and classical archaeologist and member of the SS (member number 264,124), last occupying the rank of Standartenführer (since 30 January 1945). He was a member of the Nazi Party since 1937, with membership number 5,380,876.
Also recorded as Hans Philipp Oswald Schleif
Hans Schleif
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- Born
- 1902 · Wiesbaden.
- Died
- 1945 · Berlin.
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- anthropologist · architect · art historian · archaeologist · architectural historian · university teacher · building researcher
- Fields
- architecture
- Education
- TU Dresden
- Languages
- German
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Hans Philipp Oswald Schleif (23 February 1902 in Wiesbaden – 27 April 1945 in Berlin) was a German architect, architectural and classical archaeologist and member of the SS (member number 264,124), last occupying the rank of Standartenführer (since 30 January 1945). He was a member of the Nazi Party since 1937, with membership number 5,380,876.
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Greece
Greece
In 1936, the government of Germany provided a considerable sum of money to reactivate a moribund project of archaeological excavation on the site of Olympia, Greece. Schleif was chosen as one of the principal archaeologists in this prestigious project. His Greek work produced a number of books, notably Alt-Olympia (1935), Alt-Athen (part one 1937; part two 1939) and Erechtheion (1942).
Poland
Poland
In 1939, Schleif worked as "General Trustee for securing of German cultural goods in the former Polish territory" together with Ernst Petersen in the plunder of the Warsaw archaeological museum in Łazienki Park. He transported five crate loads to Poznań on 30 November, after Standartenführer Mühlmann had given the order for such activity to cease, and founded a new collection and museum in Poznań. He was suspended in September 1940 from the position of a general trustee in Poznań due to his misunderstanding of his function, because the Gestapo expected him to plunder public and private art and cultural objects, that he did not follow.
Death
Death
On 27 April 1945, around 11 pm, Schleif killed his wife, Lora, and twin 18-month old sons Alexander and Konstantin before taking his own life.
Identity
Identity
Hans Schleif is recorded with the occupation anthropologist. Recorded as anthropologist, architect, art historian, archaeologist and architectural historian.
A model of the acropolis of the ancient Greek city of Pergamon, showing the situation in the 2nd century AD, by Hans Schleif (1902-1945).
Model: Hans Schleif
A model of the acropolis of the ancient Greek city of Pergamon, showing the situation in the 2nd century AD, by Hans Schleif (1902-1945). Sanctuary of Athena is marked.
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1902
Hans Schleif was born in 1902 at Wiesbaden.
1945
Hans Schleif died in 1945 at Berlin.
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Wiesbaden.
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Berlin.
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Reputation
In contrast to some academics who were part of the Ahnenerbe, Schleif enjoyed a strong international reputation, something he shared with a handful of fellow Nazi archaeologists such as Herbert Jankuhn. Schleif was never comfortable in the Ahnenerbe, given the group's tendencies towards racial pseudo-science, and he conspired with Wolfram Sievers to delay indefinitely a scheme suggested by Gunther Kirchhoff and Karl Maria Wiligut, and endorsed by Heinrich Himmler, to excavate a valley near Kirchhoff's home town of Gaggenau after Kirchhoff had decided that it housed an ancient Teutonic religious complex.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q87808: Hans Schleif
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- “Hans Schleif”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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scholarly publication
- Hans Schleif - Stations of the Biography of an Architecture Historian in German National Socialism – Addenda and Register, 2016
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2016
authority file
- Gemeinsame Normdatei 1165599929, Hans Schleif - eine Spurensuche.
General reference · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
Literature
Literature
Literature
Hans Schleif, 2019
Hans Schleif - Stations of the Biography of an Architecture Historian in German National Socialism – Addenda and Register, 2016
Goethert and Hans Schleif
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- 1.Bundesarchiv R 9361-IX KARTEI/37650663
- 2.Dirk Mahsarski: Herbert Jankuhn (1905–1990). Ein deutscher Prähistoriker zwischen nationalsozialistischer Ideologie und wissenschaftlicher Objektivität. Rahden, Westf. 2011, S. 176–179.
- 3.Chronik der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin, April 1937/März 1938, bearbeitet von Walter Wienert, Berlin o. J., S. 23; Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin. Personal- und Vorlesungsverzeichnis Wintersemester 1944/45, S. 34.
- 4.Kater 1974, S. 149–155, 289, 459; Heather Pringle: The Master Plan. Himmler’s scholars and the holocaust. London 2006, S. 207ff.
- 5.Stephan Lehmann: Hans Schleif (1902–1945). In: Gunnar Brands, Martin Maischberger (Hrsg.): Lebensbilder. Klassische Archäologen und der Nationalsozialismus. Leidorf, Rahden 2012, ISBN 978-3-86757-382-5, S. 211 f. und 222.
- 6.Mahsarski 2011 a. O. S. 195.
- 7.Schreiben von Chef der Amtsgruppe C – Bauwesen – im WVHA, SS-Gruppenführer Hans Kammler vom 2. Februar 1944: Lehmann 2012, S. 212–213.
- 8.Stürmer 2002, S. 441; Legendre 2007, S. 459.
- 9.Walter Naasner (Hrsg.): SS-Wirtschaft und SS-Verwaltung. Das SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt und die unter seiner Dienstaufsicht stehenden wirtschaftlichen Unternehmungen. Düsseldorf 1998, S. 45; Stephan Lehmann: Hans Schleif (1902–1945). In: Gunnar Brands, Martin Maischberger (Hrsg.): Lebensbilder. Klassische Archäologen und der Nationalsozialismus. Rhaden 2012, S. 214–218; zum Amt siehe Jan Erik Schulte: Zwangsarbeit und Vernichtung. Das Wirtschaftsimperium der SS. Oswald Pohl und das SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt 1933-1945. Paderborn 2001, ISBN 3-506-78245-2.
- 10.Vgl. Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, S. 475.
- 11.Rainer Fröbe: Hans Kammler, Technokrat der Vernichtung. In: Robert Smelser; Enrico Syring (Hrsg.): Die SS. Elite unterm Totenkopf. 30 Lebensläufe. Paderborn 2000.
- 12.Heinz Dieter Hölsken: Die V-Waffen: Entstehung – Propaganda – Kriegseinsatz. Stuttgart 1984; Jens-Christian Wagner: Produktion des Todes. Das KZ Mittelbau-Dora. Wallstein 2001.
- 13.Rudolf A. Haunschmied, Jan-Ruth Mills, Siegi Witzany-Durda: St. Georgen-Gusen-Mauthausen – Concentration Camp Mauthausen Reconsidered. BoD, Norderstedt 2008, ISBN 978-3-8334-7440-8, S. 127 ff.
- 14.Rainer Karlsch legte 2019 zusammen mit Frank Döbert neue Belege aus US-Archiven für die These vor, dass Kammler zumindest im November 1945 noch am Leben war und die Amerikaner Zugriff auf ihn hatten Döbert, Karlsch, Hans Kammler, Hitler’s Last Hope, in American Hands, Cold War International History Project, Wilson Center, 18. August 2019
- 15.Deutsches Theater Berlin - Hans Schleif
- 16.Ernst Klee. Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich: Wer war was vor und nach 1945?. 2005-08-01.
- 17.Julian Klein. Hans Schleif – Stationen der Biographie eines Bauforschers im Nationalsozialismus. Ergebnisse der Recherche zu der Theaterproduktion "Hans Schleif" am Deutschen Theater Berlin. 2016-01-01.
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scholarly publication
Hans Schleif - Stations of the Biography of an Architecture Historian in German National Socialism – Addenda and Register, 2016Crossref registry
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 1165599929, Hans Schleif - eine Spurensuche.Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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Hans Schleif worked in architecture. He was employed by Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He belonged to Sturmabteilung, German Archaeological Institute and Schutzstaffel. He worked at Olympia and Berlin.
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Atlas Zu Olympische Forschungen
Winter 1938/39 Band III. Bericht Über die Ausgrabungen in Olympia, 1940-1941
Winter 1937/38: Aus
Zeus-Altar in Olympia
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