Wilhelm Kries

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Wilhelm Heinrich Rudolf Johannes Kries (born September 21, 1887 in Erfurt ; † September 20, 1953 in the Soviet prisoner-of-war camp 5110/48 Woikowo in Tschernzy , Ivanovo Oblast ) was a German veterinarian and police officer , most recently veterinarian general of the police.

career

Kries joined the 1st Thuringian Field Artillery Regiment No. 19 on October 1, 1907 as a one-year volunteer and veterinary aspirant. After the compulsory military and veterinary training, he received his license to practice as a veterinarian on October 16, 1912. On April 18, 1913, he was transferred to the I. Department of the 1st Nassau Field Artillery Regiment No. 27 “Orange” with the rank of veterinarian. On March 17, 1914, he was transferred to the 1st Division in the 3rd Baden Field Artillery Regiment No. 50, with which he fought in France in the First World War and in which he was promoted to senior veterinarian on May 5, 1916.

After the end of the war he was initially employed as a veterinarian in the Mannheim Meat Inspection Center until he was retired from the provisional Reichswehr on April 1, 1920 with the character of a staff veterinarian .

He then worked from April 7, 1920 to December 23, 1922 as a company veterinarian at the General German Viehversicherungs Gesellschaft Berlin. From January 1, 1923 to March 31, 1924, he was police veterinarian at the Tilsit Police Department , then until March 31, 1927 as a police veterinarian with the Szczecin Police Department . On June 13, 1925 he was promoted to Dr. med. vet. PhD . From April 1, 1927 to May 31, 1933, he served as a police veterinarian at the Duisburg-Hamborn police headquarters ; there he joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 (membership number 2.034.515). This was followed by a change to the Reich and Prussian Ministry of the Interior as head of department. In 1935 he was promoted to senior veterinarian in the Prussian state police . From June 30, 1936 to December 1940 he was head of the veterinary office in the command office of the main office of the Ordnungspolizei ("OrPo"), then head of the "veterinary group" in the OrPo command office. On September 1, 1942, he received the character of Veterinarian General of the Police, and on July 1, 1943, the corresponding promotion took place. On September 15, 1943, he was appointed head of the newly formed "Veterinary Inspection" ("In Vet") in the command office of the OrPo main office, and then on October 1, 1944, he retired.

Captivity and death

Gravestone of Wilhelm Kries in Tschernzy

After the end of the war on June 14, 1945, he was arrested by the Soviet occupation authorities and interned in prisoner-of-war camp No. 27 in Krasnogorsk . He was transferred to camps no.64 / Morschansk , 349 / Libau , 48 / Woikowo and to Butyrka prison in Moscow , where he was sentenced to 25 years in a labor camp on June 29, 1950 by a military court for war crimes , probably for at least indirect ones Participation in war crimes by the police. He died on 20 September 1953 at the camp Woikowo , a general warehouse in Tschernzy (about 25 kilometers southwest of the city of Ivanovo in Rajon Leschnewo, Ivanovo ), according to official figures on cancer . His grave is in the small forest cemetery in the Woikiwo camp of deceased German officers near Tschernzy.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Until June 1916 in the 28th Division , then as an army troop.
  2. Jump up ↑ On April 30, 1917, he was awarded the Knight's Cross II. Class of the Baden Order of the Zähringer Lion with Swords.
  3. ^ Thierry Tixier: Allgemeine-SS, Polizei et Waffen-SS Officiers, sous-officiers et Soldats: Biographics. Volume 2: SS Brigade Leader. December 2016, ISBN 978-1-32654-867-4 , p. 1943.
  4. ↑ In the rank of an SS brigade leader .
  5. ↑ See: List of Soviet POW Camps of the Second World War
  6. ↑ Tschernzy is at 56 ° 51 '43 "  N , 40 ° 45' 54"  E , about 7.5 km northwest of Leschnewo .
  7. ↑ Cherntsy German Soldiers Cementary, Ivanovo area. ( Memento of the original from March 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / stalingrad.net

literature

  • Thierry Tixier: General-SS, Police et Waffen-SS Officiers, sous-officiers et Soldats: Biographics. Volume 2: SS Brigade Leader. December 2016, ISBN 978-1-32654-867-4 , p. 1943
personal data
SURNAME Kries, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kries, Wilhelm Heinrich Rudolf Johannes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German veterinarian, veterinarian general of the police
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH 20th September 1953
Place of death POW camp 5110/48 Woikowo , Soviet Union