Paul Will (SS member)

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Paul Will (born August 16, 1888 in Neuhaus an der Pegnitz , † September 20, 1968 in Nuremberg ) was a German SS brigade leader and major general of the police .

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Will graduated from high school in Nuremberg in 1908. As a two-year-old volunteer, he then joined the Royal Bavarian 14th Infantry Regiment "Hartmann" . He took part in the First World War with various Bavarian infantry regiments , most recently as a company and battalion commander. His highest rank was a captain .

In August 1920 he switched from the army to the Bavarian police service, where he also worked as a Hundertschaftsführer and section leader in Nuremberg - Fürth . At the beginning of the National Socialist era , he headed the Schutzpolizei in Zweibrücken for a few months from the beginning of February 1933 and after its dissolution was transferred to the Fürstenfeldbruck Gendarmerie and Police School as head of a teaching department in the same year. From the beginning of April 1935 to the beginning of May 1938 he was commander of the Nuremberg-Fürth police force and then definitely inspector of the Ordnungspolizei (ITE) Bayern-Nord in military district XIII. In the course of the invasion of German troops into the Sudetenland , according to the Munich Agreement, from the beginning of October 1938 he was also in command of the Ordnungspolizei for ten days in Section II “Southwest Bohemia”. In March 1943 Will was released from his position as an ITE at the instigation of the Higher SS and Police Leader Main Benno Martin and retired at the beginning of October 1943. Will, who had been a member of the NSDAP since the beginning of May 1937 (membership number 5,629,837), became a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS number 323,870) in April 1939 and achieved the rank of brigade leader in this NS organization in early December 1942. In April 1943 he was promoted to major general of the police.

After that he was retired. From the end of the Second World War he was interned in America in April 1945, from which he was released in April 1947.

literature

  • Joachim Lilla : Will, Paul . In: Minister of State, senior administrative officials and (NS) functionaries in Bavaria from 1918 to 1945. Bavarian State Library.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Rossmeissl (Ed.): Democracy from the outside. American military government in Nuremberg 1945–1949. dtv, Munich 1988, p. 169
personal data
SURNAME Will, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS Brigade Leader and Major General of the Police
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuhaus an der Pegnitz
DATE OF DEATH 20th September 1968
Place of death Nuremberg