Wilhelm Fuchs (SS member)

Wilhelm Fuchs (left) with Kurt Daluege and Otto Winkelmann (1940)

Wilhelm Fuchs (born September 1, 1898 in Mannheim , † January 24, 1947 in Belgrade ) was a German agricultural scientist. At the time of National Socialism , Fuchs was SS-Oberführer and Colonel of the Police, Leader of the Task Force “Serbia” and Commander of the Security Police and SD (BdS) in Serbia , Commander of the Security Police and SD in Lithuania, BdS Ostland in Riga and Leader of the Task Force 3 in the Soviet Union .

Life

After finishing his school career, Fuchs studied agricultural science at the University of Leipzig , where he received his doctorate in 1929. phil. On April 1, 1932, Wilhelm Fuchs joined the NSDAP ( membership number 1.038.061) and on December 1, 1932 the SS (membership number 62.760). On July 11, 1933, he was appointed SS-Untersturmführer and promoted to SS-Standartenführer until April 20, 1938 .

After the National Socialists came to power , Fuchs was second adjutant to Reichsbauernführer Walther Darré from April 1933 . From October 1937, he led the SS Upper Section Dresden. Then he was employed as an inspector of the security police and the SD in Braunschweig .

At the task force of the security police in Serbia

In the Balkan campaign from April 1941, as in the war against Poland, task forces of the security police were deployed behind the fighting troops . Fuchs was entrusted with the management of the "Serbia" task force. Immediately after the start of the Russian campaign in June 1941, an increasing communist insurrection developed under the leadership of Tito , which made itself felt in the destruction of railway lines, telephone lines and other infrastructure facilities. To combat this partisan activity , the weak German security troops were therefore reinforced and the previous Wehrmacht commander in chief was replaced by the general of the mountain troops, Franz Böhme . He was able to limit partisan activity with the so-called “Atonement Order” and “Hostage Taking Order” of the Wehrmacht High Command . After his task force was disbanded, Fuchs was appointed commander of the Security Police and the SD (BdS) for Serbia , where he was, however, not very successful. He was therefore replaced at the end of January 1942 by SS-Standartenführer Emanuel Schäfer , whom the head of the Reich Main Security Office, Reinhard Heydrich, called upon to take more rigorous action when he opened his new position, as Heydrich believed that Fuchs had failed.

Higher SS and Police Leader in Braunschweig

In June 1942, Fuchs represented SS and Police Leader Latvia , SS Oberführer Walther Schröder . From July 8th to September 14th, 1943 he was deployed as Higher SS and Police Leader "Middle" in Braunschweig .

With the Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police and the SD in the USSR

On September 15, 1943, Fuchs returned to the East as the leader of Einsatzkommando 3 , which he commanded until May 6, 1944, before finally taking over the leadership of Einsatzgruppe A from May 1944 to October 17, 1944. Subsequently, for a short time he again led Einsatzgruppe E "Croatia", only to be transferred back to Ukraine as BdS Ostland on November 9, 1944 .

After the war

After the end of the war, Wilhelm Fuchs was arrested and extradited to Yugoslavia . In Belgrade , he was by a military court on December 22, 1946 sentenced to death and on 24 January 1947 the train executed .

literature

• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .

Web links

• Biography and picture of Fuchs (Weblink) (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Carsten Schreiber: Elite in Hidden - Ideology and Regional Rule Practice of the Security Service of the SS and its Network Using the Example of Saxony , Munich 2008, p. 371.
2. ↑ Carsten Schreiber: Elite in the Secret - Ideology and Regional Rule Practice of the Security Service of the SS and its Network Using the Example of Saxony , Munich 2008, p. 58.