Franz Wimmer-Lamquet

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Franz Wimmer-Lamquet (born April 28, 1919 in Vienna ; † 2010 ) was an Austrian SS and Abwehr officer .

Life

At the age of 15, Wimmer-Lamquet received instruction in English and African languages . Reinhard Heydrich had chosen him for later use in East Africa. In May 1936 he traveled to Tanganyika to take over a coffee plantation. When the attack on Poland began , he was interned first in Tanga and then in Dar es Salaam . Returned to Europe in 1940, Heydrich designated it for use in the Middle East in March 1940 and prepared it for use with the Brandenburgers . The special order included learning the Arabic language and marrying the daughter of the "Blue Sultan" of Mauritania . In May 1941 he came to the special staff F in Iraq and Syria . Then he had to set up a special combat unit for use in the Sahara . His proposal to found an agent school was approved. The special command Wimmer , which he led, consisted of foreign legionaries and locals. It was used for acts of terrorism in North Africa. It was not assigned to the German Africa Corps , but was directly subordinate to Adolf Hitler after Heydrich's death . In the spring of 1943 Wimmer-Lamquet was promoted to SS-Standartenführer . He was considered the "German Lawrence of Arabia ". Returned to Berlin in March 1945, he was arrested by the NKVD on May 31, 1945 in Potsdam and handed over to the SMERSch . The special consultation of the Ministry of State Security of the USSR sentenced him on November 30, 1946 under Article 58 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to 15 years of forced labor. He was interrogated under torture in the Lubyanka . Paralyzed by the abuse, he was transferred to the Butyrka infirmary . He was then a patient in the camp hospital of the Vorkuta labor camp until his repatriation in October 1955 . On July 3, 2001, he was rehabilitated by the Military Prosecutor of the Russian Federation in Moscow.

After his release, Wimmer-Lamquet worked for the French secret service and was a. a. worked in Tunis in the spring of 1959 under the pseudonym Monsieur Le Roy .

Wimmer-Lamquet was married to Annelise, née Fleck (* 1923), who published essays , poems and aphorisms under her maiden name . Her most important publication was the work “Vorkuta überlebt! As a woman in Stalin's prison camp ”. Her pseudonym was Nodsi .

For the six-part ZDF documentary series Die SS , Wimmer-Lamquet, who was a confidante of Reinhard Heydrich , gave a detailed interview about him in 2002.

Works

  • Balkenkreuz and crescent moon. As a defense officer in Africa and the Middle East . Graz 2006. ISBN 978-3902475183 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "In the service of old comrades" (Junge Welt, 2011)
  2. ↑ The 'German Lawrence of Arabia' (Haaretz, 2012) (with picture in Wehrmacht uniform)
  3. ^ Wladislaw Hedeler, Horst Hennig: Black pyramids, red slaves: the strike in Vorkuta in the summer of 1953 . Leipziger Universitätsverlag 2007, p. 282
  4. ↑ Erich Schmidt-Eenboom, Matthias Ritzi: In the shadow of the Third Reich: the BND and its agent Richard Christmann , Links, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86153-643-7 , p. 203
  5. ↑ Clarissas Krambude: Authors tell of their pseudonyms , 2011, p. 300
  6. ↑ The SS - Episode 3 Heydrich's rule
personal data
SURNAME Wimmer-Lamquet, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Abwehr and SS officer
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 2010