Wilhelm Bisse

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Wilhelm Bisse

Wilhelm Bisse (born June 9, 1881 in Reinbek , † probably 1946 in Berlin ) was a German businessman, shipping agent, legation councilor and member of the Reichstag for the NSDAP .

Life

After attending elementary school in Reinbek and secondary school in Bergedorf, Bisse passed secondary school in March 1897. After a commercial apprenticeship and employment in a Hamburg agency, from June 1, 1900, Bisse was a shipping agent for the " German East Africa Line " of the shipowner Adolph Woermann . Bisse worked for the shipping company in Africa from 1905 and as a representative in German East Africa from 1907 . From 1910 he took over the management of the main agency of the shipping company in Dar es Salaam , became Reich Commissioner of the Imperial Navy and assessor in the Higher Regional Court of Dar es Salaam. During World War I , Bisse belonged to the protection force in German East Africa under Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck from November 28, 1914 to March 12, 1915 and then again from August 13, 1916 . On November 18, 1917, he was taken prisoner by the British. Last held in a prison camp in Cairo, he was released on October 26, 1919. Awarded the Iron Cross II. Class, he retired from military service on March 15, 1920.

In civil life, Bisse worked as an independent businessman in the Hamburg import and export trade: From March 1920 to March 1925 he was co-owner of the export company "Bisse & Ullmann", from April 1925 to February 1930 co-owner of the company "J. Mohrhard, Vater & Sohn ”and from June 1926 to June 1934 managing director of“ Deutsche Kolonial-Kontor GmbH ”.

On December 1, 1931, Bisse joined the NSDAP and was initially a volunteer in the NSDAP's foreign organization (AO) in Hamburg. After the seizure of power by the National Socialists took over from August 11, 1933 full-time positions in the AO; from April 19, 1934 he was Gauamtsleiter, head of the Foreign Trade Office and Department V of the AO under Ernst Wilhelm Bohle . On November 12, 1933, he received a seat in the Reichstag . In April 1938, he also took over the position of lecturer in the Foreign Office as head of the department for raw materials in the trade policy department. In 1944 he was also a clerk for the use of neutral, especially Swedish ships for the purposes of the Red Cross. In this capacity he traveled to Geneva on July 11, 1944, to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

After the end of the Second World War , he was arrested on June 26, 1945 in Berlin-Charlottenburg. On April 16, 1946, he was sentenced to death in Berlin by a Soviet military tribunal for war crimes. The death sentence was carried out in Berlin.

literature

  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Historischer Dienst (Ed.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945, A – F , Volume 1. Schöningh, Paderborn 2000, ISBN 978-3-506-71840-2 . (not evaluated)
  • Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 , p. 43.
  • Klaus-Dieter Müller, Thomas Schaarschmidt, Mike Schmeitzner, Andreas Weigelt: Death sentences of Soviet military tribunals against Germans (1944–1947): A historical-biographical study . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-525-36968-5 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus-Dieter Müller, Thomas Schaarschmidt, Mike Schmeitzner, Andreas Weigelt: Death sentences of Soviet military tribunals against Germans (1944-1947): A historical-biographical study , Göttingen 2015, p. 52f.
personal data
SURNAME Bisse, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (NSDAP), MdR
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Reinbek
DATE OF DEATH 1946
Place of death Berlin