Horst Wulff

Horst Wulff (born October 28, 1907 ; † April / May 1945 ) was a German National Socialist who was deployed as area commissioner in Wilna -Land in German-occupied Lithuania during the Second World War .

Life

Wulff, a hotel clerk by profession, joined the NSDAP and SA in September 1926 . After he had temporarily not belonged to the party, his re-entry took place in October 1929. From 1932 to 1934 he worked a. a. in Paris hotels and worked for the NSDAP local group in Paris as an organization and propaganda manager and undercover agent.

After the beginning of the Second World War , he did military service from 1940. After the attack on the Soviet Union , he was appointed area commissioner in Vilnius Land in August 1941 . In November 1941 he transferred from the SA to the SS . In February 1943, Wulff had 40 Lithuanian farmers shot at the General Commissioner in Kaunas because, in his opinion, they did not deliver enough food. He ordered anti-Jewish measures in his catchment area, so in March 1943, on his instructions, around 3,000 Jews were brought from eastern Lithuanian cities to the Vilnius ghetto . Wulff died during the Battle of Berlin . Today a room in the Museum of Genocide Victims in Vilnius documents his activities.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 . (Source collection, cited VEJ) Volume 7: Soviet Union with annexed areas I - Occupied Soviet areas under German military administration, the Baltic States and Transnistria. (edited by Bert Hoppe and Hiltrud Glass), Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-58911-5 , p. 534.
^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 689.
↑ Wolfram Wette , vincas Bartisevisium and Joachim Tauber (HG): Holocaust in Lithuania. War, murder of Jews and collaboration in 1941. With a foreword by Ralph Giordano . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2003. ISBN 3-412-13902-5 , p. 124.

personal data
SURNAME	Wulff, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German National Socialist and area commissioner
DATE OF BIRTH	October 28, 1907
DATE OF DEATH	April 1945

[Hoppe534-1] The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 . (Source collection, cited VEJ) Volume 7: Soviet Union with annexed areas I - Occupied Soviet areas under German military administration, the Baltic States and Transnistria. (edited by Bert Hoppe and Hiltrud Glass), Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-58911-5 , p. 534.

[Klee689-2] Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 689.

[3] Wolfram Wette , vincas Bartisevisium and Joachim Tauber (HG): Holocaust in Lithuania. War, murder of Jews and collaboration in 1941. With a foreword by Ralph Giordano . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2003. ISBN 3-412-13902-5 , p. 124.