Paul winemaker

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Paul Winzer (born June 24, 1908 in Cottbus ; † unknown) alias Walter Eugene Mosig (Spanish spelling Walther Eugen Mosing ) was the head of the Miranda de Ebro concentration camp .

Life

Winzer studied law at the Universities of Breslau and Berlin without a degree. In April 1936 the Secret State Police appointed Winzer to the Foreign Office as detective commissioner for the embassy in Madrid. He was given the task of observing the communist methods of the newly elected government . The Wilhelmstrasse agreed, and in May 1936 took SS - and SD -Oberinspektor Paul Winzer its work in Madrid. On July 18, 1936, a vintner was in Barcelona and watched German migrants take part in the Counter-Olympiadparticipated. After watching the crackdown on the coup in Barcelona for a week, Vintner embarked on an Italian steamer for Germany.

Concentration camp command

In 1937 the putschists set up a German-style concentration camp in Miranda de Ebro to take prisoners during the Spanish Civil War . The camp was run by SS and Gestapo member Winzer. It lasted until 1947.

Police attaché

In 1938 Winzer belonged to Richard Enge (economic expert), Hans Kroeger (for the NSDAP ), Willi Köhn (for the SS, later Consul General) and Hans Stille junior. (later secretary of the legation) to the entourage of Wilhelm Faupel in Salamanca .

In 1938 Vintner helped set up the Franco police .

Police agreement

After the police agreement between Severiano Martínez Anido and Heinrich Himmler in 1938, SS-Sturmbannführer Winzer set up an SD network in Spain in addition to the existing defense network. Numerous SD employees were employed by German companies in Spain. The cooperation of the secret police was based on the agreement of July 31, 1938, which dealt with the mutual extradition of "political criminals".

kidnapping

José María Doussinague reports in his book España tenía razón that Vintner was involved in the kidnapping of the married couple Erich Heberlein and Margot Calleja on the night of June 17-18, 1944 from their La Legua estate near Toledo. Counselor Heberlein and Eberhard von Stohrer had been recalled because it was assumed that they would thwart winemakers' intrigues.

New identity

From the spring of 1946 Mosig was interviewed by the Counter Intelligence Corps at Hohenasperg fortress for two years. In 1948 the vintner emigrated to Córdoba (Argentina) .

The name Mosig appears in a list of Nazi war criminals from 2002.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert H. Whealey: Hitler And Spain , p. 33 on Google books .
  2. ^ Robert H. Whealey: Hitler And Spain , p. 63 on Google books .
  3. ↑ Birgit Aschmann : Treue Freunde , p. 410 on Google books .
  4. ^ Foreign freedom . In: Die Zeit , No. 20/1992
  5. ↑ If you march in, we'll shoot! In: Der Spiegel . No. 18 , 1963 ( online ).
  6. ↑ Heberlein has left . In: Der Spiegel . No. 28 , 1950 ( online ).
  7. ↑ NAZI WAR CRIMES DISCLOSURE ACT. National Archives and Records Administration , September 10, 2002
personal data
SURNAME Winemaker, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mosig, Walter Eugene; Mosing, Walther Eugen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German police attaché, commandant of the Miranda de Ebro concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH cottbus
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century