Hilmar Wäckerle

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Hilmar Wäckerle (born November 24, 1899 in Forchheim ; † July 2, 1941 east of Lemberg ) was a German SS standard leader and the first camp commandant of the Dachau concentration camp .

Life

Wäckerle, son of a Munich notary, joined the Bavarian Cadet Corps in 1913 . From August 1917 until the end of the First World War he served in the 2nd Bavarian Infantry Regiment "Crown Prince" . In 1918 he was promoted to ensign and wounded on a front mission. In 1919 he made up his Abitur, joined various resident services and then the Freikorps Oberland . In 1922 he joined the NSDAP for the first time . In 1925, Wäckerle was one of the “ blood medals ” as a so-called “ old fighter ”.

From 1921 to 1924 he studied agriculture at the TH Munich . In 1922 he became a member of the Isaria Corps . He finished his studies as a qualified farmer .

In 1929 he applied for membership in the SS , was assigned as an “ SS applicant ” to the then still existing SS storm “Dachau” and on March 1, 1931, was a member of the SS (SS number 9.729). He was briefly assigned as an " SS candidate " to the 1st SS standard in Munich, in which his brother Emil was also included. Emil Wäckerle was Standartenführer and commander of the 1st SS Standard from February to November 1933.

On May 1, 1931, he rejoined the NSDAP ( membership number 530.715). At that time Hilmar Wäckerle was working as an estate manager in Kempten. In October 1931 Wäckerle was promoted to SS-Scharführer. He was now commissioned in Unterkürnach with the establishment and administration of SS troop 1 / I / 29 Buchenberg. In February 1932 he was promoted to SS troop leader, in July Wäckerle was proposed to SS storm leader in the Kempten SS-Sturmbann and promoted on August 25 by Heinrich Himmler with the simultaneous appointment to adjutant of the 1st storm-man of the 29th SS standard . In February 1933 Hilmar Wäckerle rose to SS-Hauptsturmführer .

On March 17, 1933 Wäckerle was by then SS Oberabschnitt Head "South", Friedrich Jeckeln offset for "Detail of the SS brigade South" and then as leader of the SS-storm ban "D" as well as the first commander of the newly erected Dachau concentration camp used . He always entered the camp there with an ox pizzle in hand and accompanied by a German shepherd. After investigations by the Munich public prosecutor's office into the murder of prisoners , he was relieved of his post in June 1933 and replaced by Theodor Eicke .

Hilmar Wäckerle was returned to the 1st SS standard after his dismissal as a concentration camp commandant and assigned as staff leader to SS Section X in Stuttgart. His SS section leader, Johann-Erasmus Freiherr von Malsen-Ponickau , proposed in February 1934 that he be promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer, which was carried out by Himmler on March 1, 1934.

In May 1934, Wäckerle went as a company commander, to build up the "political willingness" of the SS, according to Ellwangen . From this later the SS-Einsatzstruppe (SS-VT) developed. In the spring of 1936 he led the first SS standard "Germania" in Hamburg-Veddel . In September he was appointed SS-Obersturmbannführer. In May 1940 he was involved in the attack on the Netherlands and led the standard (later: regiment) "Westland" of the Waffen SS . On August 21, 1940, he was promoted to Standartenführer . In 1941 Hilmar Wäckerle fell near Lwow / Lemberg on the Eastern Front . The Romanian-German Artur Phleps took over his post .

Transport data

  1. SS-Sturmführer: August 25, 1932
  2. SS-Hauptsturmführer: January 30, 1933
  3. SS-Sturmbannführer: March 1, 1934
  4. SS-Obersturmbannführer: September 13, 1936
  5. SS-Standartenführer: August 21, 1940

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Segev: The Soldiers of Evil. On the history of the concentration camp commanders. Reinbek near Hamburg 1992, p. 81ff.
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 82, 1055.
  3. ↑ a b Johannes Tuchel: Concentration Camps: Organizational History and Function of the Inspection of the Concentration Camps 1934–1938. 1991, p. 392f.
  4. ↑ Mark C. Yerger : General SS. The Commands, Units and Leaders of the General SS. Schiffer Publishing, 1997, ISBN 0-7643-0145-4 , p. 170.
  5. ↑ a b Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 648.
  6. ↑ a b Note: This NS rank was renamed SS-Hauptsturmführer in 1934.
  7. ^ Reymer Klüver In: Germany under the swastika. (= Geo Epoch. 57/2012) (Part 1), p. 62.
  8. ↑ Mark C. Yerger: General SS. The Commands, Units and Leaders of the General SS. Schiffer Publishing, 1997, ISBN 0-7643-0145-4 , p. 136.
  9. ^ Sources: Berlin Document Center, SS officer file Hilmar Wäckerle, source from: Dachauer Hefte No. 10. Perpetrators and victims. Johannes Tuchel. The commanders of the Dachau concentration camp. 1994, pp. 71-73.

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. 2nd edition. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 648.
  • Johannes Tuchel : The commanders of the Dachau concentration camp. In: perpetrators and victims. (= Dachauer Hefte. No. 10). 1994, pp. 71-73.
  • Tom Segev : The Soldiers of Evil. On the history of the concentration camp commanders . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1992, ISBN 3-499-18826-0 .
  • Johannes Tuchel: Concentration camps: organizational history and function of the inspection of the concentration camps 1934–1938. (= Writings of the Federal Archives, Volume 39). H. Boldt, 1991, ISBN 3-7646-1902-3 .
personal data
SURNAME Wäckerle, Hilmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS leader, commandant of the Dachau concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH November 24, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Forchheim
DATE OF DEATH July 2, 1941
Place of death east of Lviv