Wilhelm Casper
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
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 7: Supplement A – K. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6050-4 , pp. 197-198.
- Ralf Meindl: East Prussia's Gauleiter. Erich Koch - a political biography. Individual publications by the DHI Warsaw , 18. Fiber, Osnabrück 2007, ISBN 978-3-938400-19-7 , plus diss. Phil. Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg 2006
Individual evidence
- ^ Gestapo Headquarters in the East Prussia , Yad Vashem, accessed on October 29, 2015
- ↑ Sanders, Paul. The British Channel Islands under German Occupation 1940-1945. Jersey Heritage Trust, 2005, p. 184 (translated).
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SURNAME | Casper, Wilhelm |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German military administrator |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1902 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lauenburg in Pomerania |
DATE OF DEATH | November 21, 1999 |
Place of death | Bonn |