Wilhelm Beisner

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Wilhelm Beisner (born August 18, 1911 in Krückeberg ; † after 1980) was a German SD and SS leader as well as an arms dealer and BND agent .

Career start

After completing his school career, Beisner completed an economics degree at the Universities of Königsberg and Frankfurt am Main . He joined the SA in August 1930 and the NSDAP in September 1930 ( membership number 374.194). In November 1932 he transferred from the SA to the SS (SS no. 65,698). After completing his studies , he received his doctorate in 1936. rer. pole. He then worked as a consultant in the Department for the Southeast in the Foreign Policy Office of the NSDAP until the beginning of the Second World War . In the SS he rose to SS-Sturmbannführer in September 1939 .

Second World War

At the beginning of the war he completed a short military course and from October 1939, after the attack on Poland, he was a member of the Waffen SS in the German-occupied areas for the Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz . From August 1940 he worked full-time in Amt VI (SD-Auslands) of the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA) and was commissioned to set up intelligence structures in the Balkans before the Balkan campaign . In the course of the occupation of Yugoslavia, he was in command of the Einsatzkommando Agram of the Einsatzgruppe Yugoslavia in the wake of the 2nd Army . Beisner became the liaison leader Agram to the military commander in Serbia.

By the end of 1941 at the latest, Beisner returned to work at the RSHA and took over the Arabia Section VI C 13. In July 1942, Beisner was assigned to the task force under Walter Rauff as a Middle East expert . This task force was waiting in Athens for its deployment in Libya . From the end of November 1942, the task force was used during the Tunisian campaign. In Tunisia he formed commandos from Arab, Spanish and French paratroopers who jumped out of planes as agents and carried out acts of sabotage against the Allied troops behind the front. Beisner made contacts with the Arab nationalist Neo-Destur party and was able to free some of them from prison. He is also said to have trained members of the German-Arab Legion . Before the African Corps surrendered , the task force was flown out in May 1943. Then Beisner was deployed in Italy, from 1944 with the commander of the security police and the SD in Trieste .

post war period

At the end of the war, Beisner fled to Italy via Innsbruck , where he was caught and sent to an internment camp in Rome . From there he could escape again; he settled in Cairo , where he initially lived under an Italian pseudonym . He became the private secretary of Prince Abbas Halim and trained Egyptian secret service men and Algerian emigrants. To that in Syria living Walter Rauff he held further contact. From 1948 he was active in the arms trade and cultivated his relations with Arab nationalist leaders. From the beginning of the 1950s he worked as a commercial agent in Arab countries, for example for Hoesch AG , for which he landed an important contract to build a pipeline . Hoesch AG severed its business relationship with Beisner in 1960 after it became public that Beisner was an arms supplier for the Algerian FLN . In the course of his arms deals he stayed in Germany several times.

Beisner was recruited for the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) in October 1957 and transferred to the intelligence service by the former SS leader Rudolf Oebsger-Röder . At the BND he worked under the cover name Bertram . In 1958, he recruited his former superior from the SS Rauff for the BND. On October 16, 1960, Beisner was the victim of an explosives attack in Munich-Schwabing in the Blumenstrasse. After he had started his car, an explosive device detonated and Beisner was taken to a hospital in Schwabing, seriously injured. He lost a leg in the assassination. His wife Alice, who was also involved in her husband's arms deal as his courier, suffered a shock. After questioning by the criminal police, both did not testify to the matter. The perpetrators were not identified, they were probably members of the Red Hand , but possibly also the Mossad .

With the approval of the BND, Beisner lived in Tunis from 1961 and remained there - at least until the 1980s - working for the BND as a conversation facilitator. At the end of the 1960s, Beisner initiated contacts with the Algerian intelligence service for the BND. According to information from a BND man from June 1984, Beisner was not investigated for war crimes. Yugoslav authorities searched for Beisner at the end of the war; However, Yugoslavia later made arms deals with Beisner itself.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 37.
  2. ↑ a b Wilhelm Beisner. In: Dws-xip.pl .
  3. ^ A b c Konrad Kwiet , Jürgen Matthäus, Klaus-Michael Mallmann : Germans - Jews - Genocide: The Holocaust in Past and Present. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2006, p. 155.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Bodo Hechelhammer : Walther Rauff and the Federal Intelligence Service.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) In: Communications from the research and working group. In: History of the BND (MFGBND). No. 2, September 23, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bnd.bund.de
  5. ^ A b Klaus-Michael Mallmann, Martin Cüppers: Half moon and swastika. The Third Reich, the Arabs and Palestine. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2006, p. 97.
  6. ^ Report of the German legation in Zagreb on a meeting regarding the resettlement of Slovenes and Serbs. In: Tone Ferenc: Sources on the National Socialist denationalization policy in Slovenia 1941 to 1945. Maribor 1980 (on www.karawankenbound.at).
  7. ^ A b Richard Breitman, Norman JW Goda: Hitler's Shadow - Nazi War Criminals, US Intelligence, and the Cold War. National Archives and Records Administration , p. 25 ff. (PDF; 1.58 MB).
  8. ↑ a b c d e arms trade. Bomb in the flower street . In: Der Spiegel . No.  44 , 1960, pp. 47 ( Online - Oct. 26, 1960 ).
personal data
SURNAME Beisner, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SD and SS leaders as well as arms dealer and BND agent
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Krückeberg
DATE OF DEATH after 1980