{{Infobox military person , name = Hans Jüttner , birth_date = {{birth-date, 2 March 1894 , death_date = {{death-date and age, 24 May 1965, 2 March 1894 , image = Bundesarchiv Bild 183-J28010, Hans Jüttner.jpg , image_upright= 0.9 , image_size = , caption = , birth_place = Schmiegel,

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'' and General of the Waffen-SS , commands = SS Leadership Main Office , unit = , battles = , awards = Knights Cross of the War Merit Cross, with Swords Hans Jüttner (2 March 1894 – 24 May 1965) was a German high-ranking functionary in the SS of

who served as the head of the '' SS Führungshauptamt'' (SS Leadership Main Office).

Career in the Nazi Party and the SS

In 1933, Jüttner joined the SA. In 1934, Jüttner became chef of the SA ''Reichsführerschule'' (training body for SA leaders) in

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. In May 1935, he switched to the SS combat support force ('' SS-Verfügungstruppe'' or SS-VT), which subsequently became the

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. By 1939, Jüttner had become the Inspector of Reserve Troops of the SS-VT-Division. From early 1940, Jüttner led the SS-VT command office. In the summer of the same year, Jüttner was promoted to chief of staff of the newly created SS Leadership Main Office ('' SS-Führungshauptamt''), which was responsible for the Waffen-SS's organizational and administrative leadership. This was separate from the administration of

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, the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office (''

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, which administered the

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, Kripo and SD. Shortly after taking office, Jüttner was instrumental in wresting control of the militarized Death's Head regiments (''Totenkopfstandarten'') from Concentration Camps Inspectorate chief

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and amalgamating them into the Waffen-SS. In June 1943, he was promoted to SS-''

''. On 30 January 1943, Jüttner became chief of the SS Leadership Main Office. On 21 July 1944, after

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had been placed in charge of the Replacement Army following the failed coup on 20 July 1944, Himmler appointed Jüttner Chief of "Army Armament and Commander of the Reserve Army". Jüttner was later awarded the Knights Cross of the War Merit Cross, with Swords.

Trial and conviction

On 17 May 1945, Jüttner was taken prisoner by British forces. In 1948, he was sentenced to ten years in a labour camp by a denazification court. In appeal proceedings in 1949, his punishment was lowered to four years.

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testified that Jüttner had taken pity on a group of Hungarian Jews after witnessing a

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, resulting in 7,500 Jews being sent back to Budapest. It was later found that the death march had been called off since the roads were blocked off by retreating German soldiers. In 1961, Jüttner testified for the prosecution in the trial of

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.{{cite web, url=http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/e/eichmann-adolf/transcripts/Testimony-Abroad/Hans_Juettner-01.html, title=Eichmann trial: Testimony taken abroad, website=www.nizkor.org, access-date=2008-10-05, archive-date=2012-02-08, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208004953/http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/e/eichmann-adolf/transcripts/Testimony-Abroad/Hans_Juettner-01.html, url-status=dead Later Jüttner was the proprietor of a sanatorium in

, where he died in 1965. Jüttner was a member of

HIAG HIAG () was a Advocacy group, lobby group and a denialist veterans' organisation founded by former high-ranking Waffen-SS personnel in West Germany in 1951. Its main objective was to achieve legal, economic, and historical rehabilitation of the ...

.''Abschied von einem großen Soldaten.'' In: '' Der Freiwillige.'' Juni 1965, S. 21–23.

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