Otto-Wilhelm Wandesleben

Otto-Wilhelm Wandesleben (born December 16, 1912 in Essen ; † unknown) was a German police officer and SS Obersturmbannführer .

biography

Wandesleben joined the criminal police after dropping out of university. In the 1930s he was accepted into the Secret State Police , where he gradually worked his way up to higher positions.

In December 1942, Wandesleben took over the management of Section IV B 3 ( Other Churches, Freemasonry ) in Section IV B ( Opponents of ideology ) of Office Group IV (Gestapo) in the Reich Security Main Office . Along with Adolf Eichmann ( Jewish affairs, eviction affairs ) and Erich Roth ( political Catholicism and political Protestantism, sects ), he was one of three speakers in this office group. The administrative supervision of the actions of the Nazi security apparatus against the Freemasons and against parts of the church resistance fell into his area of ​​office .
In the SS (SS no. 290.022), Wandesleben made it to the position of Obersturmbannführer.

In February 1944 Wandesleben was transferred to the SD-Leitabschnitt Stettin as a cultural advisor .

literature

• Helmut Neuberger: Freemasonry and National Socialism. The persecution of German Freemasonry by the Volkish Movement and National Socialism 1918–1945 . Bauhütten-Verlag, Hamburg 1980, ISBN 3-87050-152-9 (also dissertation, University of Munich 1977)

1. The völkisch propaganda struggle and German freemasonry until 1933 . 1980.
2. The end of German Freemasonry . 1980.

• Helmut Neuberger: angle measure and swastika. The Freemasons and the Third Reich . Herbig, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-7766-2222-9 .
• Michael Wildt : Generation of the Unconditional. The leadership corps of the Reich Security Main Office . Hamburg editions, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-930908-75-1 .