Helmut Wollang

Helmut Wollang (born September 26, 1901 in Berlin , † unknown) was SS-Sturmbannführer and employee in the SS main office of the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle .

Life

The trained salesman volunteered for military service at the end of the First World War in 1918. But he was not used at the front because the fighting was over. He then volunteered at the Sturmabteilung of the V Army Corps, where he was involved in fighting on the border in Silesia .

When the Spartacus uprising took place in Berlin in 1919 , he fought against the insurgents in the Reichstag regiment . He took part in the Kapp Putsch as a member of the Second Marine Brigade Ehrhardt . He then fought in the 3rd Marine Brigade in Upper Silesia .

When fighting broke out again in Upper Silesia in 1921, he took part in them under Captain Adolf Gutknecht in the Wenndorf battalion . The Berlin participants in these struggles in the Upper Silesian Self-Protection founded the group Association of former Upper Silesians .

This group, which was supposed to have only memories of the fighting in Upper Silesia, was disbanded after the murder of Walther Rathenau . Then he joined the Black Reichswehr . In 1920 he became a member of the German National People's Party (DNVP).

Wollang became known throughout the country when he was arrested in connection with the murder of Erich Pannier, who was murdered in 1923. He and Sergeant Walter Schirmann had taken Pannier into custody. However, while Wollang was not proven to be involved in the murder, the responsible Berlin court sentenced Schirmann to death on February 2, 1926. He was pardoned by the Prussian Ministry of Justice and, like the other two murderers, was released on December 15, 1929.

With his career so far, Wollang was able to land quickly with the National Socialists. He became a member of the SA on October 1, 1929. He was accepted into the NSDAP on November 1, 1929 as member no. 160,792. On the instructions of the Reichsführer SS , the SA-Sturmbannführer was able to join the SS as SS-Hauptsturmführer on April 1, 1942. After he was promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer, he was able to work in the SS main office of the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle from June 21, 1944.

literature

• Bernhard Sauer, Black Reichswehr and Fememorde , Metropol Verlag, Berlin 2004, pp. 118f.