Wilhelm Schitli

Wilhelm Schitli (born June 26, 1912 in Osnabrück ; † March 31, 1945 (missing)) was a German SS-Hauptsturmführer and protective custody camp leader in Neuengamme concentration camp .

Life

Wilhelm Schitli was the eldest son of the cigar maker Gerhard Schitli and his wife Luise. After attending secondary school in Osnabrück, Schitli began an apprenticeship as a plumber from 1928 and became a member of the SS on March 1, 1933 . From September 10, 1934 he was a member of the guard team of the Esterwegen concentration camp and from 1936 report leader in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . At the beginning of 1940 he was briefly the second protective custody camp leader in the Buchenwald concentration camp and became the first protective custody camp leader in the Neuengamme concentration camp in the spring of 1940 during the construction of the Neuengamme concentration camp. From mid-July 1942, Schitli also acted as the camp commandant of the independent Arbeitsdorf concentration camp , a test project for arms production near Wolfsburg, and replaced Martin Gottfried Weiss in this position . After this project was discontinued, he was deployed from October 1942 as the camp commandant of the "Jewish camp" at the SS military training area in Heidelager near Dębica (Poland) and remained at this post until September 1943. He was then transferred to the Higher SS and Police Leader Ostland in Riga. Schitli has been missing since March 31, 1945.

literature

• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 .
• Hermann Kaienburg : The Neuengamme Concentration Camp 1938-1945. Dietz, Bonn 1997, ISBN 3-8012-3076-7 .