Wilhelm Frerichs
Wilhelm Frerichs (born August 16, 1900 in Salzbergen ; † unknown) was a German SS-Obersturmführer and, as criminal secretary, head of the political department in Buchenwald concentration camp .
Life
After finishing school in 1917, Frerichs did his military service first with the Imperial Navy and then with the provisional Reichsmarine until 1920. Then Frerichs was employed by the water police until 1930 .
Frerichs became a member of the NSDAP in 1937 ( membership number 4.293.088), of which he was a brief member from 1925, and also joined the SS (SS number 310.578). In 1937 Frerichs worked briefly in the Lichtenburg concentration camp . That same year Frerichs moved to the resolution of this concentration camp in the Buchenwald concentration camp , where he headed the political department. His colleague Hubert Leclaire , however, appeared more prominent in Buchenwald, as he was feared by the mistreatment of concentration camp prisoners during interrogation in Buchenwald. In the late summer of 1942, Frerichs moved to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp as head of the political department . From 1944 Frerichs was employed in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp , which he left on April 12, 1945 before the British Army took over.
After the end of the Second World War , Frerichs was last seen alive by eyewitnesses in the summer of 1947 in special camp No. 2 in Buchenwald .
literature
- Marlis Gräfe, Bernhard Post and Andreas Schneider: The Secret State Police in the NS Gau Thuringia 1933 - 1945. Sources on the history of Thuringia . II. Half volume, published by: State Center for Political Education Thuringia , unchanged new edition 2005, ISBN 3-931426-83-1 . (pdf)
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Marlis Graefe, Bernhard Post and Andreas Schneider: The Secret State Police in the NS Gau Thuringia 1933 - 1945. Sources on the history of Thuringia . II. Half-volume, published by: State Center for Political Education Thuringia, unchanged new edition 2005, p. 545.
- ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 164.
- ↑ David A. Hackett: The Buchenwald report: Report on the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar , CH Beck, 2002, ISBN 3406475981 , p. 60f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Frerichs, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German head of the political department in Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen concentration camps |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mountains of salt |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1947 |