Eugen Dollmann

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v. l. To the right: Kurt Daluege , Excellency Palma, Dollmann

Eugen Dollmann (born August 8, 1900 in Regensburg , † May 17, 1985 in Munich ) was a German diplomat and member of the SS .

Life

Eugen Dollmann's parents were Paula Dollmann, née Schummerer, and Stefan Dollmann. Eugen Dollmann his doctorate in 1926 at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich for Doctor of Philosophy . From 1927 to 1930 Dollmann studied the history of Farnese and Italian art in Rome . At that time he met Heinrich Himmler on the Piazza di Spagna , who introduced him to Karl Wolff . Dollmann's mother died in 1934 and he became the Italian correspondent for Münchner Neue Nachrichten . In 1935 he became head of the press department of the NSDAP / AO (membership number 3,402,541) in Italy. In November 1937, Dollmann became SS-Obersturmbannführer . From December 4 to 8, 1937, Dollmann accompanied Himmler to Libya . In 1938 Dollmann met Eva Braun in Florence .

v. l. To the right : Italian police officer, Count Helldorff , Kurt Daluege (can only be seen with his back), Dollmann (as Himmler's representative in Rome), His Excellency Palma.

Dollmann was special commissioner of the SS (membership number 289.259) in Italy .

From 1939 Dollmann was accredited to the Embassy of the German Reich at the Holy See . During the German occupation of Rome, he served Eberhard von Mackensen and Albert Kesselring at the time they were in command of the war crimes in the Ardeatine Caves on March 24, 1944. In the Italian Social Republic from September 23, 1943 to April 25, 1945 he had the function of commander of the police and was adjutant to Karl Wolff in his villa in Gardone Riviera on Lake Garda .

On July 20, 1944, Dollmann translated Conversations between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini .

Around May 8, 1945, Dollmann found protection from criminal prosecution for his involvement in war crimes with Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster in Milan, with whom he had already discussed the German Reich's efforts to achieve a separate peace through Operation Sunrise . Schuster hid Dollmann in a mental hospital in Laveno-Mombello . Dollmann was the model for the character of Capitan Bergmann in the film Rome, Open City by Roberto Rossellini . In 1946 Dollmann returned to Rome, was recognized in a cinema and accompanied by James Jesus Angleton to Berne to Allen Welsh Dulles . In 1952, Dollmann was expelled from Switzerland to Italy on the grounds that he had a homosexual relationship with a Swiss civil servant . Padre Parini helped him with the transfer to Spain, where he was employed in the arms trade of Otto Skorzeny in Donostia.

An Italian intelligence exhibited for Dollmann travel documents Carlo Rocchi him a confidant of the CIA handed in Milan. With these Dollmann traveled to the Federal Republic of Germany . Dollmann was imprisoned in the Federal Republic for a month for passport offense.

In Munich he was the hotelier of the guest house Das Blaue Haus at the back of the Münchner Kammerspiele .

He translated the synchronization template for The Sweet Life by Federico Fellini .

Gianfranco Bianchi acted as his executor .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard Breitman : US intelligence and the Nazis . P. 317.
  2. ↑ Breitmann p. 332.
  3. ^ Time , Aug. 11, 1952, SPAIN: Accounts Overdue
  4. ^ Corriere della Sera , 2002 / marzo / 20, Dollmann, dolce vita sull 'orlo dell' abisso
personal data
SURNAME Dollmann, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat and SS member
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH regensburg
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 1985
Place of death Munich