Wilhelm Casper

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Wilhelm Casper (born March 8, 1902 in Lauenburg in Pomerania , † November 21, 1999 in Bonn ) was a German head of military administration.

Life

Casper was born in Pomerania in 1902 and became a lawyer. He was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD. During his studies he became a member of the Teutonia Jena fraternity in 1921 and of the Teutonia fraternity in Kiel in 1921/22 . In 1933 he was head of the Gestapo in Königsberg . From 1936 to 1939 Casper was district administrator for the Gerdauen district . From September 1941 to November 1943 he was the civilian head of the military administration in the Channel Islands , where "his signature is on almost all of the anti-Jewish laws." Liaison officer of the Wehrmacht Commander in Chief at the Danish Central Administration in Jutland .

In 1962 Casper became President of the Bundeswehr Administration Office in Bonn. In 1967 he received the Great Federal Cross of Merit .

Casper spent his twilight years in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Bonn.

Fonts

  • We humans are a family. Memories and thoughts. Husum 1994
  • British voices about the German occupation in the British Channel Islands. v Decker, Hamburg / Berlin 1963

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gestapo Headquarters in the East Prussia , Yad Vashem, accessed on October 29, 2015
  2. Sanders, Paul. The British Channel Islands under German Occupation 1940-1945. Jersey Heritage Trust, 2005, p. 184 (translated).