Alwin Wipper

Curt Herbert Alwin Wipper (born February 15, 1902 in Oschersleben , † probably 1945 ) was a German police officer and SS leader.

Live and act

After attending school, which he graduated from high school in 1920, Wipper completed training as a bank clerk . At the First World War he had with age no longer participated, but 1919 and 1920 a paramilitary volunteer corps belongs. In 1928 he gave up his job as a bank clerk to begin training as a detective inspector. In 1930 Wipper came to Wuppertal as a detective inspector . From there he was transferred to the Berlin Police Headquarters in 1931 , where he worked in Department K.

Following the so-called Preussenschlag , d. H. the violent impeachment of the Prussian state government, which was dominated by social democrats, by the conservative Reich government under Franz von Papen on July 20, 1932, Wipper appeared as a witness against Albert Grzesinski .

Immediately after the National Socialist " seizure of power " in the spring of 1933, Rudolf Diels brought Wipper into the newly founded Secret State Police . There he became head of the commissariat z. b. V. entrusted in Movement Department III and used for special orders. In the same year he joined the NSDAP (membership number 1,668,647). From 1933 to 1934 he was also a member of the SA . He joined the SS (membership number 272.371) in 1935.

In 1937 Wipper was promoted to the criminal councilor. In 1938 he became an assistant in the Gestapo radio surveillance department . In 1939 he was appointed head of IV C 5 (surveillance, special orders) in the Reich Main Security Office. In August 1941 he was entrusted with the management of Division IV (traffic with foreign police), which was directly subordinate to Heinrich Müller . In 1942 Wipper was sent to Sofia as a police attaché. In February 1943 he was relieved of this post and transferred to the Stapo control center in Berlin.

Wipper is said to have been killed as the leader of a combat force shortly before the end of the Second World War .

literature

• Michael Wildt: Generation of the Unconditional. The leadership corps of the Reich Security Main Office. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 978-3-930908-75-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Birth register, registry office Oschersleben, No. 65/1902
2. ↑ Marriage register, Berlin-Wilmersdorf registry office, No. 703/1941