Hans Wesemann (27 November 1895, Nienburg on the Weser – 23 October 1971, Caracas) was a German journalist and Gestapo agent.
He lived with them and his three siblings Sigrid, Greta and Freiedrich on a large farm.
[1] By 1935, Wesemann had become a Gestapo agent and conducted the first known kidnapping outside Germany by the Nazis.
This was the kidnapping of German pacifist journalist Berthold Jacob in Basel, Switzerland, on 9 March 1935.
[2][3] He was subsequently arrested by the local police, and in September 1935 Jacob was returned to Switzerland following an intervention by the Swiss Federal Council.