Otto Ullmann

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Otto Ullmann (born September 21, 1899 in Homburg ; † September 29, 1955 in the Soviet prisoner-of-war camp 5110/48 Woikowo ) was a German SS leader and police officer, most recently an SS brigade leader and major general of the police. During the Second World War he was police chief in Wroclaw from 1943 to 1945 .

Life

The doctor's son Ullmann left high school in 1917 after completing primary school and took part in the First World War, most recently with the rank of ensign . He was awarded the Iron Cross . After the war he belonged to a volunteer corps . He then passed the Abitur and then studied electrical engineering by 1925. Afterwards he was employed as a graduate engineer for an electricity supplier.

The Nazi Party he joined in 1930 at ( membership. 357322) and then was the founder of a local branch of the party. After attending a course at the NS-Ordensburg Krössinsee , Ullmann resigned from his employment in order to become a full-time SS leader. Ullmann, known from wartime chief of the personal staff Reichsführer SS Karl Wolff , brought him to Berlin in July 1936 to serve with the chief adjutant of the Reichsführung SS . Ullmann was immediately included in the Schutzstaffel with the rank of Hauptsturmführer (SS No. 276.658). At the end of October 1936 he was initially provisional, then at the end of January 1937 he was definitively staff leader and chief department head of the staff leader of the personal staff Reichsführer-SS and was directly subordinate to Wolff. This office essentially comprised the "main departments of the personal department of the Reichsführer-SS and the clerk of the chief personal staff as well as the adjutants". Ullmann was one of the most important employees around Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler , since in this function he was responsible for coordinating Himmler's affairs and instructions within the Schutzstaffel.

During the Second World War, Ullmann was finally to be employed in the police service and was therefore deployed to the Hamburg police for information purposes at the beginning of 1942 . Instructions followed in the main office of the Ordnungspolizei and in late February / early March 1943 in the Reich Security Main Office . When he switched to the police, he left the Waffen SS , which he had been a member of since the beginning of the war. Promoted to SS Brigadefuhrer and Major General of the Police, he became Police President of Breslau in mid-1943 and remained in this position until the end of the war.

After the end of the war, Ullmann was a Soviet prisoner of war and died on September 29, 1955 in the Soviet prisoner of war camp 5110/48 Woikowo. Ullmann was married twice and has four children.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Julien Reitzenstein: Himmler's researcher. Defense science and medical crimes in the "Ahnenerbe" of the SS. Paderborn 2014, p. 33
  2. ^ Jens Westemeier : Himmler's warriors. Joachim Peiper and the Waffen-SS in the war and the post-war period. Paderborn 2014, p. 97 f.
  3. ↑ a b Julien Reitzenstein: Himmler's researcher. Defense science and medical crimes in the "Ahnenerbe" of the SS. Paderborn 2014, p. 34
  4. ^ Jens Westemeier: Himmler's warriors. Joachim Peiper and the Waffen-SS in the war and the post-war period. Paderborn 2014, p. 670
personal data
SURNAME Ullmann, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German police president and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Homburg
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1955
Place of death POW camp 5110/48 Woikowo