Ludwig Wemmer

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Ernst Ludwig Wemmer (born March 8, 1909 in Stuttgart ; † 1991 ) was a German lawyer, diplomat and Nazi functionary.

Life

After completing his law degree in 1931, Wemmer began a civil service career. Wemmer, from July 1, 1931 a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 578.011), was a member of the NSDAP during his time as assessor . a. active in the political police . Between 1932 and 1936 he was a member of the SA and joined the SS on November 9, 1936 .

As a government assessor, he was appointed to the staff of the Führer’s Deputy from June 1935 , where he was promoted unusually quickly to the Upper Government Council in 1937 and to the Ministerial Council in 1939 . There he headed Group III D (education and church issues). After he was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer in the SS (SS-No. 278.226) in November 1940 , he was named "Hauptstelleleiter bei der Reichsleitung der NSDAP". During the Second World War he did brief military service in the Air Force . Wemmer received his doctorate in 1942 with the dissertation "The struggle of the Catholic Church for the school in Baden". jur.

From the beginning of April 1943 he was deployed as a first class envoy at the German embassy at the Vatican as “minder of the party chancellery”. The former ambassador to the Vatican, Ernst von Weizsäcker , saw Wemmer in his memoirs as "an embassy counselor from Bormann's party chancellery , the No. 1 enemy of the church, who was forced upon me by (Foreign Minister) Ribbentrop ".

On June 5, 1944, after the capture of Rome by Allied troops , Wemmer was arrested by members of the US Army while he was outside the Vatican. He was interned first in Sicily and then in Paris . In May 1945 he was flown to Augsburg and released.

Wemmer became an employee of Pro Honore in Hamburg, then an employee in the oil industry. After the 131 Law came into force, he litigated for a pension for his service as a Nazi official.

literature

  • Peter Longerich : Hitler's deputy. Leadership of the party and control of the state apparatus by the Hess staff and the Bormann party office. Saur, Munich et al. 1992, ISBN 3-598-11081-2 .
  • Johannes Hürter (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871 - 1945. 5. T - Z, supplements. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 5: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0 , p. 231

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Full name according to: Albrecht von Kessel : Against Hitler and for another Germany. As a diplomat in war and post-war. Life memories. Edited by Ulrich Schlie . With the collaboration of Stephanie Salzmann, with a foreword by Richard von Weizsäcker . Böhlau-Verlag, Vienna et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-205-77465-5 , p. 211.
  2. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 667
  3. ^ Year of death after: Albrecht von Kessel : Against Hitler and for another Germany. As a diplomat in war and post-war. Life memories. , Vienna et al. 2008, p. 211.
  4. ^ A b c Peter Longerich: Hitler's deputy. Leadership of the party and control of the state apparatus by the Hess staff and the Bormann party office , Munich et al. 1992, p. 130.
  5. ↑ a b Ludwig Wemmer on SS seniority list at dws-xip.pl
  6. ↑ a b c civil servants / pension. What one was . In: Der Spiegel , issue 21 of May 18, 1970, p. 92.
  7. ↑ Albrecht von Kessel: Against Hitler and for another Germany. As a diplomat in war and post-war. Life memories. , Vienna et al. 2008, p. 211.
  8. ^ Hansjakob Stehle: Bishop Hudal and SS leader Meyer. An attempt at peace in church politics in 1942/43 . In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte , issue 2, April 1989, p. 313 ( PDF ).
personal data
SURNAME Wemmer, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wemmer, Ernst Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, Nazi official and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH 1991