Ludwig Wolff (SS member)

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Ludwig Wolff (born August 4, 1908 in Pabianice , Russian Empire ; † 1988 ) was a politician of the German minority in Poland and, after 1939, a politician of the NSDAP . He was also an SS leader .

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Wolff was born in 1908 as the son of the German teacher and later member of the Sejm, Ludwig Wolff . During the First World War , he was deported to Russia with his parents from New Year 1915 to September 1918 . From 1919 to 1928 Wolff attended the German Gymnasium in Lodz and studied theology in Warsaw and Erlangen from 1928 to 1933 . From 1933 to 1934 Wolff did his military service in the Polish army . In 1935, after several weeks of reservist exercises, Wolff also passed the officers' examinations, but was not appointed officer.

From 1929 to 1930 Wolff was the national leader of the German Youth Union in Poland and chaired the Association of German University Students in Warsaw. On October 1, 1934 he became the full-time youth leader of the Łódź German School and Education Association for Central Poland. From February 1936 he was deputy head of the German People's Association in Poland (DVV), where he had already headed youth work the year before. On May 15, 1938, Wolff took over the management of the DVV from August Utta . On March 10, 1939, at the party conference of the German People's Association, Wolff supported the politics of the German National Socialists and attacked the Jews sharply.

On August 28, 1939, Ludwig Wolff was arrested as part of a major measure against the German minority just before the war began . After the attack on Poland on September 1, 1939, Ludwig Wolff was transferred from the Łódź prison to Warsaw and from there, after seven days, to the Mińsk Mazowiecki prison, and later to Brest-Litowsk . According to a newspaper report, he escaped from custody on September 13. On September 15, he faced the advancing units of the German Wehrmacht and returned via East Prussia and Berlin on October 5, 1939 to the now occupied Łódź. On September 20, 1939, Wolff became a member of the Hitler Youth with the rank of Oberbannführer . On October 19, 1939, he received the NSDAP's Golden Party Badge , but without being a member of the NSDAP . Heinrich Himmler appointed Wolff as SS-Obersturmbannführer on November 13, 1939 when he joined the Schutzstaffel .

Wolff was appointed acting NSDAP district leader of the Lodsch district on January 30, 1940. His formal admission into the NSDAP did not take place until August 1, 1940. In the function of the district leader he organized the compilation of the German People's List , on which all persons of German descent were to be recorded and which, through its mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion, significantly exacerbated the conflict contributed to the population. At the same time he planned and organized the National Socialist terror against opponents of all kinds in 1939/40, on August 25, 1940 he announced: "The Polish people as a whole have been wiped out from the ranks of the civilized peoples." elected in April 1938 a National Socialist Reichstag , to which he belonged until the end of Nazi rule in spring 1945 as a member of the Wartheland . In 1941 Wolff was released from his position as district leader, probably due to conflicts with the Reich German NSDAP leadership.

In October 1942 he was appointed SS leader in the staff headquarters of the Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Ethnicity with the rank of SS-Standartenführer . Only a few days later he was appointed as SS-shooter for training and reserve battalion "skull" I of the Waffen-SS drafted in Warsaw, in which he served until February 1,943th Until May 1943 he was a member of the 10th SS Panzer Division. Since May 1943 he took part in a preparatory course for candidate leaders. In November 1943 he was appointed SS Oberscharführer . In 1944 Wolff had achieved the rank of SS-Untersturmführer in the Waffen-SS . From January to April 1944 he was assigned to the 2nd SS Panzer Junker special course and from April 1944 to the Nebeltruppen school in Celle as a world view teacher. On August 30, 1944, he was transferred to the SS main office , where he headed the Ukrainian control center. In September 1944 he was promoted early to Obersturmführer in the reserve of the Waffen SS. On January 1, 1945, Wolff was appointed SS specialist leader.

After the end of the war, Wolff was a member of the board of the Weichsel-Warthe country team . From 1949 he also worked for the Gehlen Organization , the forerunner of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND), as a full-time employee and speaker. Although organizational unit 85 recommended his resignation due to Wolff's Nazi burden , the BND continued to employ him until he retired at the end of August 1973.

Wolff was married twice and had two children.

Fonts

  • As a convict to Brest-Litovsk. In: Kurt Lück (Ed.): March of the Germans in Poland. Border and Abroad Publishing House, 1940, p. 107.
  • The national struggle of Germanness in the east of the Wartheland. In: Hubert Müller (ed.): The east of the Wartheland. Published on the occasion of the Heimatschau in Litzmannstadt. Verlag Stähle and Friedel, Stuttgart 1941, pp. 176-195.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d SS-Obersturmbannführer Wolff. The first provisional district leader of the city of Lodsch is installed today. In: Lodscher Zeitung , January 30, 1940, p. 5, wimbp.lodz.pl (PDF; 6.2 MB), accessed on November 16, 2013.
  2. ↑ Never dyskutowac - tylko słuchać! (Don't discuss - just obey!). In: Republika , 73, March 14, 1939, p. 5 (Polish), wimbp.lodz.pl (PDF; 8.4 MB); Retrieved November 15, 2013.
  3. ↑ a b Displaced persons returned. In: Deutsche Lodzer Zeitung , September 29, 1939, p. 3 ( digitized version, ( Memento of May 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) PDF; 4.9 MB; accessed on November 16, 2013).
  4. ↑ Ludwig Wolff returned home . In: Deutsche Lodzer Zeitung , October 6, 1939, p. 3, digitized, ( Memento from May 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ; PDF; 4.8 MB), accessed on November 16, 2013.
  5. ↑ a b Hans-Jürgen Bömelburg: Lodzer life stories in difficult times. In: Dialog. Issues of the German-Polish Society for Mental Health , 14 (2006), pp. 221–246, uni-giessen.de (PDF; 155 kB), accessed on November 22, 2013.
  6. ↑ We indict the entire Polish people! In: Litzmannstädter Zeitung , August 25, 1940, p. 5 ( wimbp.lodz.pl ( Memento of May 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ; PDF; 12.5 MB) accessed on November 22, 2013)
  7. ↑ Nazis and Spies . In: Der Spiegel . No. 51 , 2012, p. 20 ( online ).
  8. ↑ Sabrina Nowack: Security Risk Nazi Exposure: Personnel Reviews in the Federal Intelligence Service in the 1960s , Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2016, p. 484
personal data
SURNAME Wolff, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Pabianice
DATE OF DEATH 1988