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Herbert Hübner
Herbert Hübner served as head of the labour and resettlement staffs at the Poznań RKFDV office, involved in expelling Poles and forcibly retaining them as labour. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Poznań, the Warthegau and occupied Poland 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
- In Poznań he headed the staffs responsible for labour and resettlement within the apparatus of the Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Nationhood.
- On 29 August 1941 he signed a letter ordering that expelled Poles be prevented from leaving the Warthegau and remain available as labour; district administrators were to assist in placing them.
- The tribunal in the RuSHA Trial found beyond a reasonable doubt that he had actively participated in forced evacuations and resettlement and in slave labour.
- He was found guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity and SS membership and sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment.
Place in the chain of responsibility
Hübner shows a regional administrative document that connected expulsion with control over mobility and exploitation of labour. Responsibility rests on the signed instruction and the judgment's findings, not merely on his function in the RKFDV.
Key events and mechanisms
- heading the Poznań labour and resettlement staffs
- signing the instruction of 29 August 1941
- the RuSHA Trial in 1947–1948
- the fifteen-year sentence, subsequent reduction and release in 1951
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
In the RuSHA Trial he was sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment. The sentence was later reduced to ten years, and he was released in 1951. He died in 1982.
Limits of the evidence
The judgment expressly distinguished proven acts from the remaining specifications for which the evidence against Hübner was insufficient. The profile should be limited to expulsions, retaining Poles as labour and the other findings actually attributed to him in the judgment.
Sources
The source set combines institutional, archival, trial or scholarly material from at least two independent publishers.