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Hans Sommer
Hans Sommer served as SD foreign-intelligence officer who supplied explosives for attacks on Paris synagogues. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in occupied France through documented office, decisions, supervision or operational conduct. It does not assign every crime committed by an institution or region to one individual.
Confirmed findings
- Hans Sommer was born on 26 June 1914 in Nortorf and died on 31 October 1987 in Brescia. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- Sommer was an SS-Obersturmführer and RSHA Office VI official serving in France within the SD foreign-intelligence apparatus. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- The French Ministry of the Armed Forces states that he supplied the explosives used by the Mouvement social révolutionnaire to bomb seven synagogues in Paris during the night of 2–3 October 1941. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- After the Marseille proceeding was discontinued, a Paris military court convicted him on 20 April 1950 for participation in the attacks and imposed 1 year's imprisonment or a fine of 6,000 francs. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Place in the chain of responsibility
The profile attributes to Hans Sommer only the documented role and conduct described in the cited sources, without transferring to him every crime committed by the institutions or units with which he was associated. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Key events and mechanisms
- During the night of 2–3 October 1941, seven Paris synagogues were attacked with explosives supplied by Sommer. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- Sommer was released from Cherche-Midi prison on 1 July 1950 and transferred to Germany. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
The circle records authority, function and agency. Several profiles may describe different parts of the same persecution chain, so profile-level totals must not be added together.
Postwar accountability
After returning to Germany, he cooperated with West German and East German intelligence services; he died in Brescia on 31 October 1987. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Limits of the evidence
The profile attributes to Sommer the supply of explosives, as confirmed by the French institutional record, not the personal placement of every bomb. It also preserves the distinction between the discontinued Marseille proceeding and the later Paris judgment. No individual victim total is assigned, and no additional order or act is attributed without an explicit source finding. No portrait with clearly documented publication rights was found. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Sources
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