Wilhelm Bock (SS member)

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Wilhelm Bock (born September 11, 1903 in Lübeck , † May 1, 1945 in Berlin ) was a German Gestapo officer and SS leader who, as the temporary head of Sonderkommando 7a of Einsatzgruppe B in the Soviet Union, was instrumental in the Holocaust .

Life

Bock, the son of a marine machinist, completed a commercial apprenticeship as a clerk after attending school and was then employed by companies in Lübeck , Hamburg and Berlin.

Bock became a member of the NSDAP on November 1, 1929 ( membership number 170,613) and joined the SA in the same year . From the SA he switched to the SS in 1931 (SS No. 11.348), where he rose to Standartenführer in early October 1944 . Politically, Bock was active for the party in Lübeck as a section head and speaker .

After the National Socialists came to power , Bock entered the civil service on March 6, 1933 as the personal adjutant of the new Lübeck police officer Walther Schröder, and on May 31, 1933 he received the title of “Commissioner for Special Use”. From mid-September 1933, Bock was the first head of the Lübeck Gestapo.

In the course of the annexation of Austria to the German Reich on March 12, 1938, he was transferred to the Vienna State Police Headquarters, which was being established, where he headed Executive Department II and from April 1940 acted as deputy head of the Vienna Stapo.

In the course of the attack on the Soviet Union , Bock succeeded Erich Körting in December 1941 as commander of Sonderkommando 7c ("Pre-Command Moscow") of Einsatzgruppe B , which was involved in the murder of Jews in the occupied Soviet Union . In July 1942, Bock became SS and Police Leader (SSPF) Vinniza under the higher SSPF Russia South Hans-Adolf Prützmann .

From November 1942 to the beginning of May 1945, Bock headed the Berlin State Police Headquarters. Bock committed during the Battle of Berlin on May 1, 1945 in the hospital bunker of the Reich Chancellery suicide . After Gerhard Paul, Bock could possibly successfully go into hiding. The statement that Bock was executed on April 3, 1947 in the Landsberg War Crimes Prison after an aviation trial cannot be correct, as Wilhelm Bock was already 50 years old in February 1947 and the details of his namesake, born in 1903, do not match.

literature

  • Gerhard Paul : State terror and social brutality. The Gestapo in Schleswig-Holstein. With the collaboration of Erich Koch. Results, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-87916-037-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e f Gerhard Paul: State terror and social brutalization. The Gestapo in Schleswig-Holstein. Hamburg 1996, p. 96 f.
  2. ↑ Andreas Schulz, Günter Wegmann, Dieter Zinke: The generals of the Waffen SS and the police: Lammerding-Plesch . Biblio-Verlag, 2003, ISBN 978-3-7648-2375-7 , p. 262.
  3. ^ Gerhard Paul: State terror and social brutality. The Gestapo in Schleswig-Holstein. , Hamburg 1996, p. 235.
  4. ↑ Case No. 12-1106 (US vs. Wilhelm Bock) Tried 13 Nov. 46 (PDF; 547 kB).
  5. ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 57.
  6. ↑ Jörg Fligge : Lübeck schools in the "Third Reich": a study on the education system in the Nazi era in the context of developments in the Reich. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2014, p. 975 (Biographical Notes) .
personal data
SURNAME Bock, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Gestapo employee, SS leader and perpetrator of the Holocaust
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1945
Place of death Berlin