Wilhelm Huth

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Wilhelm Huth (born December 21, 1896 in Dörscheid , † April 15, 1982 in Hamburg ) was a German SS brigade leader and district president .

Life

Huth trained as a graduate engineer and worked from 1927 to 1932 in the mechanical engineering office in Gdansk-Cracow. He had been a member of the NSDAP since 1930 ( membership number 370.225) and of the SS in 1932 (SS number 56.275), where he was promoted to SS brigade leader in 1940. From 1933 to 1939 he was a member and from 1934 Vice President of the Danzig Senate of the Free City of Danzig .

During the Second World War , from 1939 to 1945, he was government president of the Gdansk administrative district and deputy Reich governor in the Reichsgau Gdansk-West Prussia .

After the war he worked in the insurance industry in Hamburg.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ life data according to: Austria. Council of Ministers, Rudolf Neck, Adam Wandruszka, Isabella Ackerl : Protocols of the Council of Ministers of the First Republic, 1918–1938 , Part 8, Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Staatsdruckerei, 1980, p. 587
  2. ↑ a b c d Andrea Loew: German Reich and Protectorate September 1939 – September 1941 (= The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945. Vol. 3). Oldenbourg, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-58524-7 , p. 234. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
  3. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 277
personal data
SURNAME Huth, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS brigade leader and regional president
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Dörscheid
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 1982
Place of death Hamburg