Wilhelm Dittler

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Wilhelm Dittler (born July 28, 1899 in Ingolstadt ; † 20th century) was a German SA leader, most recently with the rank of SA group leader .

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Dittler, whose father was a master baker, learned his father's trade and also passed the master's examination. He later took over the family business.

Dittler took part in the Hitler putsch in 1923, for which he later received the " Blood Order " of the NSDAP . Around 1927 he joined the SA , in which he achieved his highest rank with the promotion to SA group leader in 1942. In the 1930s and 1940s he worked as an SA leader in Ingolstadt . On the occasion of the Reichstag election of April 10, 1938 , Dittler ran unsuccessfully on the “Führer’s List” as a member of the National Socialist Reichstag .

On February 1, 1942, Dittler was entrusted with the management of the SA group Alpenland, which he retained until the end of the war.

After the Second World War , Dittler came into the public eye again when he and three other senior SA leaders (Ewald Bartel, Arno Albert Schieffner and Albert Wiczonke ) founded a secret organization called the German Peace and Freedom Movement in 1947 was arrested by the American Military Police and tried before a military tribunal. According to the evidence presented in the proceedings, the clique planned, in the event of an expected war between East and West, to take advantage of the favorable opportunity to take over the leadership of the former territory of the German Reich with their organization . The statutes that Dittler and his cronies had drafted for the "freedom movement" were based on the 25-point program of the NSDAP and provided, among other things, retaliation against anyone who had behaved "dishonorably" since the 1945 surrender .

literature

  • City Archives, Wiss. Stadtbibliothek, Stadtmuseum Ingolstadt: Ingolstadt under National Socialism: a study: Documentation on contemporary history , Ingolstadt, 1995.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ At the sound of the accordion , in: Der Spiegel from April 12, 1947.
personal data
SURNAME Dittler, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SA leader
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Ingolstadt
DATE OF DEATH 20th century