Waldemar Beyer

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Waldemar Beyer (born September 27, 1909 in Güsten ; † 1952 ) was a German librarian and police officer.

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After attending school, Beyer studied at the University of Leipzig . There he received his doctorate in 1933 with a 63-page dissertation on King Gunthchramn as Dr. phil.

In 1935 Beyer took up a senior librarianship at the Leipzig University Library. In 1936 he moved to the SD main office in Leipzig, where he worked in the literature department. He was later transferred to the Secret State Police Office, where he took over the management of the library (Department II A 2). After the establishment of the Reich Security Main Office , Beyer was entrusted with the management of the library there, which was administratively housed in Office Group VII (ideological opponents) as its own department A 1. In 1942 Beyer became head of the library at the University of Strasbourg . From 1944 Beyer took the Waffen-SS as a member of the rank of SS First Lieutenant in the Second World War.

In the Allgemeine-SS (SS-No. 223.215) Beyer was promoted at least to Hauptsturmführer.

Fonts

  • König Gunthchramn , Leipzig 1933. (Dissertation)

literature

  • Ulrich von Hehl (Ed.): Saxony's State University in Monarchy, Republic and Dictatorship: Contributions to the history of the University of Leipzig from the Empire to the dissolution of the State of Saxony in 1952. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-374-02282-0 .
  • Michael Wildt : Generation of the Unconditional. The Leadership Corps of the Reich Security Main Office , 2002, p. 368.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Götz Aly: The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933-1945 , Vol. 2, p. 823.
  2. ↑ Ulrich von Hehl: Saxony's State University in Monarchy, Republic and Dictatorship , 2005, p. 276.
  3. ↑ Götz Aly: The persecution and murder of European Jews , 2009, p. 823.
personal data
SURNAME Beyer, Waldemar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian, police officer and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Güsten
DATE OF DEATH 1952