Wilhelm Bluhm (SS member)

Wilhelm Bluhm (born January 3, 1899 in Berlin ; † July 22, 1943 in the Soviet Union ) was SS-Sturmbannführer and criminal director, head of the Weimar state police station , leader of Sonderkommando 7c of Einsatzgruppe B in the USSR in the National Socialist German Reich .

Life

Bluhm was employed as a criminal adviser at the Frankfurt am Main state police station in 1935 for the Wiesbaden regional district . With the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer and criminal director , Bluhm then worked for the Stapostelle in Dortmund .

On November 8, 1940, he was seconded to the Generalgouvernement as commander of the Security Police and SD Radom and returned to Germany on March 1, 1941, where he was posted to the Weimar police station . In 1941/42 he represented the SS-Obersturmbannführer and Oberregierungsrat Gustav vom Felde , head of Department II (General Political Affairs) and was also the head of the entire executive. Bluhm was finally appointed head of the Weimar police station, but from February 25, 1942, he was seconded to the SS and police station leader in Vinnitsa in the Ukraine .

In the late autumn of 1942, Bluhm took over from his predecessor, SS-Hauptsturmführer Rudolf Schmücker, the command of Sonderkommando 7c (advance command Moscow ) of Einsatzgruppe B until his death in July 1943.

literature

• Gräfe, Post, Schneider (ed.): The Secret State Police in the NS Gau Thuringia 1933–1945, State Center for Civic Education Thuringia, Erfurt 2004