Friedrich Wilhelm Theilengerdes

Friedrich Wilhelm Theilengerdes (born October 9, 1894 in Hamburg , † July 26, 1949 in Hameln ) was a German criminal inspector , Gestapo officer and SS-Obersturmführer .

Life

Before the outbreak of the First World War, Theilengerdes completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter. In the First World War he took part as a soldier; from 1919 he continued his military career as a member of a volunteer corps. In May 1920 he joined the Oldenburg Order Police, where he was promoted to police sergeant major until 1927. In 1921 he married Antonia Wulf; there are two daughters from the marriage. In 1927 he switched to the criminal police, where he was soon used to monitor communist and Marxist activities. On February 1, 1933 (retroactively to December 20, 1932) he became a member of the NSDAP (membership number 1.444.720). From March 1933 he was responsible for building up the political police in Oldenburg, and in 1936 he became head of the Gestapo branch in Oldenburg . After the Gestapo in the state of Oldenburg had its headquarters in Wilhelmshaven from 1937 , Theilengerdes then acted as head of the Oldenburg branch. In the same year he resigned from the Evangelical Church and became a member of the SS , where he was promoted to Obersturmführer in 1942 . In the same year he was also appointed criminal inspector. After the war he was interned by the British in various camps and prisons, including the Esterwegen camp . In 1948 the verdict was made by the Benefeld-Bomlitz Court of Justice , which sentenced him to 4 years and 6 months imprisonment for membership in the Gestapo and SS. In May 1949 a British military tribunal sentenced him to death for crimes against humanity . Theilengerdes shot the 22-year-old Ukrainian Ivan Saitschuk during an interrogation in 1944. The sentence was carried out on July 26, 1949 in the Hameln prison .

literature

Albrecht Eckhardt, Katharina Hoffmann: Gestapo Oldenburg reports. Reports of the Secret State Police and the Minister of the Interior from the Free State and State of Oldenburg 1933–1936. Hahn, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-7752-6009-9 .

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Archives of the Lower Saxony State Archives , Oldenburg Department :

Individual evidence

^ Albrecht Eckhardt, Katharina Hoffmann: Gestapo Oldenburg reports. Reports of the Secret State Police and the Minister of the Interior from the Free State and State of Oldenburg 1933–1936. Hahn, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-7752-6009-9 , pp. 33 ff .

personal data
SURNAME	Theilengerdes, Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German policeman
DATE OF BIRTH	October 9, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH	July 26, 1949
Place of death	Hamelin

[1] Albrecht Eckhardt, Katharina Hoffmann: Gestapo Oldenburg reports. Reports of the Secret State Police and the Minister of the Interior from the Free State and State of Oldenburg 1933–1936. Hahn, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-7752-6009-9 , pp. 33 ff .