Hans Willem Hammerbacher

Hans Wilhelm Hammerbacher (2 November 1903 – 1980) was a German writer and, in Nazi Germany, a member of the Sturmabteilung.

Biography Hammerbacher was born in Nuremberg; he was the younger brother of architect Herta Hammerbacher. A physically weak child, he studied social sciences and gained his Ph.D. Having regained his health, in 1928 he bought a house in the mountain resort of Lech (Vorarlberg), Austria, with his father's inheritance. He was living in Lech when he joined the NSDAP on 25 April 1933. On 28 February 1934, he joined the SA; since the party was legally banned in Austria, he was imprisoned for five months and then deported to Germany.

He was imprisoned until 1948 and then retreated into obscurity, with his wife and children, and died in 1980. He wrote a dozen books promoting a kind of Germanism,