Wilhelm Günther (SS member)
Wilhelm Günther (born April 21, 1899 in Ermenrod in the Alsfeld district ; † 1945 ) was a German SS brigade leader and major general of the police who worked as an SS and police leader (SSPF).
Life
Günther was a soldier in the First World War and after the end of the war he was employed in the Reichswehr for a communications unit until October 1919 . Then he studied electrical engineering. Günther was probably sentenced to prison by the French military court for spying activities during the occupation of the Ruhr and imprisoned. In 1932 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 1.094.209) and the SS (SS number 69.638). From March 1933 to April 1935 he was a member of the intelligence storm in SS Section XI ( Wiesbaden ). Then he was a member of the SD in the upper section "Rhine" until April 1937 and then leader of the SD in the upper section "Southeast" until November 1938. From October 1939 to March 1941 he was inspector of the security police and the SD in Stettin and then in the same position in Kassel until 1942.
Günther was SSPF Bergvölker-Ordskonikidze from May to August 1942 and then SSPF Volhynia and Podolia until the beginning of 1944. From May 1944 to February 1945 he was in command of the Security Police and the SD (BdS) in Trieste and then worked for the staff of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) until the end of the war . Günther was pronounced dead after the end of the war.
Awards
| Günther's SS and police ranks | |
|---|---|
| date | rank |
| April 1935 | SS-Untersturmführer |
| January 1936 | SS-Obersturmführer |
| April 1938 | SS-Hauptsturmführer |
| January 1938 | SS-Sturmbannführer |
| September 1938 | SS-Obersturmbannführer |
| September 1939 | SS standard leader |
| November 1941 | SS-Oberführer |
| April 1943 | SS Brigade Leader and Major General of the Police |
- Iron Cross (1914) 2nd class
- Wound badge (1918) Version unknown
- Regional order
- Clasp for the Iron Cross, 2nd class
- Iron Cross (1939) 1st class
- War Merit Cross (1939) 2nd and 1st class with swords
- Honorary sword of the Reichsführer SS
- SS skull ring
- SS service awards
literature
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 . (updated 2nd edition).
Individual evidence
- ^ Waffen-SS and police> Wilhelm Günther on Axis Biographical Research
- ^ Michael Wedekind: National Socialist Occupation and Annexation Policy in Northern Italy 1943 to 1945. (= Military History Studies, Volume 38) R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2003. ISBN 3-486-56650-4 , p. 318.
- ↑ See Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 209.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Günther, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German SS Brigade Leader and Major General of the Police |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ermenrod |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1945 |