Hermann Julius Höfle pron. also Hans (or)
Hermann Hoefle (19 June 1911 – 21 August 1962)was an Austrian-born
SS-Sturmbannführer (major). He was deputy to Odilo Globocnik in the Aktion
Reinhard program, serving as his main deportation and extermination expert. As such he
was heavily involved in crimes against humanity during the Holocaust.On 31 May
1945 Höfle was found hiding in Möslacher Alm near the Weissensee Lake in
Carinthia (Southern Austria) by the British, along with SS storm troopers Ernst
Lerch and Georg Michalsen. After two years in the British interrogation center
Wolfsberg (Carinthia), he was released to the Austrian judicial system. On 30
October 1947, under oath, he was released to continue his earlier occupation as
an auto mechanic in his birthplace, Salzburg.Höfle following his arrest in 1961
in Austria.After an extradition request on 9 July 1948 by the Polish
government, he fled to Italy, where he lived under a false name until 1951.
Later he returned to Austria, and then emigrated to the Federal Republic of
Germany. There he was employed briefly as an informant for U.S. Army
Counterintelligence.
Höfle returned to Salzburg, where he lived as a free man until 2 January 1961, when he was arrested by the Austrian authority and sent to prison in Vienna, where in 1962 he hanged himself before his trial could begin.
Höfle returned to Salzburg, where he lived as a free man until 2 January 1961, when he was arrested by the Austrian authority and sent to prison in Vienna, where in 1962 he hanged himself before his trial could begin.
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