Otto Hellwig (SS member)
Otto Hellwig , (born February 24, 1898 in Nordhausen ; † August 20, 1962 in Hanover ) was a German SS group leader (1944) and a lieutenant general of the police (1944) as well as an SS and police leader (SSPF).
Life
Hellwig, who took part in the First World War as a soldier , became a member of the Rossbach Sturmabteilung after the war ended . He was a police officer by profession and worked for the Prussian protection police . From the late 1920s he worked for the Bielefeld police administration in the Minden administrative district and was promoted to captain of the police in the early 1930s. From 1934 he was in command of the Lippe State Police . Hellwig joined the NSDAP in April 1933 ( membership number 2.155.531) and the SS in July 1935 (SS number 272.289).
From 1935 to 1937 he was head of the Gestapo in Breslau and then until March 1941 commander of the leadership school of the security police and the SD in Berlin-Charlottenburg. Hellwig was a trainer and commander of a task force of the task force z. b. V. under Udo von Woyrsch , who prepared the attack on Poland with the attack on the Gleiwitz transmitter as part of the Tannenberg company . After a brief activity as head of the Gestapo in Katowice in 1940, he worked from March 1941 to October 1942 as an inspector of the security police and the SD (IdS) in Stettin .
From late October 1942 to May 1943 he was SS and Police Leader (SSPF) in Zhitomir and then SSPF Bialystok until July 1944. Under his leadership, the SS and police destroyed 108 villages in partisan operations from November 1942 to early 1943 and did not murder them recorded enemy deaths another 2,336 people. From December 1944 he was deputy leader of the SS upper section “Northeast” and from January 1945 also deputy higher SSPF “Northeast” with headquarters in Königsberg until May 1945.
Hellwig was interned at the end of the war. Nothing is known about his denazification , and the murders have not been investigated. Hellwig wrote down his experiences with the Tannenberg company in the early 1950s. Hellwig died in Hanover in August 1962.
Awards
| Hellwig's police and SS ranks | |
|---|---|
| date | rank |
| July 1935 | SS-Hauptsturmführer |
| November 1936 | SS-Sturmbannführer |
| April 1937 | SS-Obersturmbannführer |
| October 1941 | SS standard leader |
| April 1942 | SS-Oberführer |
| January 1943 | SS Brigade Leader and Major General of the Police |
| December 1944 | SS group leader and lieutenant general of the police |
- War Merit Cross (1939) 2nd and 1st class with swords
- Gang fight badge in bronze
- Golden party badge of the NSDAP
- SS sword of honor
- SS skull ring
- SS service awards
literature
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Updated 2nd edition. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
- Christian Gerlach : Calculated murders. The German economic and extermination policy in Belarus from 1941 to 1944 . Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-930908-54-9
Web links
- Literature by and about Otto Hellwig in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Ernst Klee : Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 243.
- ↑ a b Tannenberg company . In: Der Spiegel . No. 32 , 1979, pp. 62 ( online ).
- ↑ Wolfgang Curilla : The German Ordnungspolizei and the Holocaust in the Baltic States and in Belarus 1941-1944 . P. 880
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hellwig, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lieutenant General of the Police as well as SS and Police Leader |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nordhausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th August 1962 |
| Place of death | Hanover |