Carl Wilhelm Hahn (8 June 1898 – 18 February 1982) was a German journalist, historian, archivist and head of the Schleswig-Holstein federal state’s so called Sippenamt (a state agency overseeing the archiving and analysis of family records, Sippe being a Nazi term for extended families) during the Nazi regime.
As an active Anti-Semite, member of the NSDAP and the Sturmabteilung, he was of considerable importance for the implementation of the Nazi racist policy in Schleswig-Holstein and beyond.
After the end of World War II, he quickly managed to gain a foothold again and to cover up his commitment to Nazi racial policy.
After attending high school in Hameln from 1914, two years after the outbreak of First World War, he was drafted into military service in 1916 at the age of eighteen.
After receiving his doctorate in 1924, he moved to Neumünster, where he found employment as editor of the regional daily 'Holsteinische Courier' [4] A year later, in 1925, C.W.
As head of the public Sippenamt (state agency for the archiving and analysis of family records) in Schleswig-Holstein, from 1943 with the rank of state archive councilor, he tried to set up numerous regional ‘family record agencies’ in cooperation with church offices.
As head of the state ‘Sippenamt’, he was particularly responsible for Aryan records, family- and rural farm-research, migration movements and biographical and local cultural research.