Hans Kehrl (8 September 1900-26 April 1984) was a Nazi German businessman and economic advisor.
Biography[]
Hans Kehrl was born in Brandenburg an der Havel, German Empire in 1900, the son of a cloth manufacturer. He became a partner in a cloth factory in 1926 and joined the German People's Party, and he went on to join the Nazi Party in 1933 and served as an economic advisor in the district of Kurmark. From 1933 to 1935, he served as President of the Lower Lusatia Chamber of Industry, promoting textile substitutes. He joined the SS in 1936 for pragmatic reasons, and he helped manage banking policy in the Sudetenland from 1938 to 1942. In 1943, he moved from the Reich Ministry of Economics to the Ministry for Armaments and War Production, and he became an SS Brigadefuehrer in January 1944. He was interned after the war and sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1949, but he was pardoned in 1951 and became a business consultant and an SPD supporter. Kehrl died in 1984.