Wilhelm Laforce

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Wilhelm Laforce (born April 8, 1896 in Munich , † December 12, 1965 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was a German paramilitary activist and SS leader, most recently with the rank of SS Sturmbannführer . Laforce was a leader in the forced resettlement of people in German-occupied areas of Eastern Europe during World War II .

Life and activity

After the First World War , Laforce began to get involved in circles of the radical political right in Bavaria. In 1919 he became a member of the Thule Society . In the same year he got a job as editor responsible for the advertisements at the newspaper Münchener Beobachter , which was soon renamed Völkischer Beobachter .

In 1920 Laforce joined the NSDAP ( membership number 525). After the formation of the shock troop Adolf Hitler , a personal bodyguard of the NSDAP chief organized under paramilitary auspices, in May 1923 Laforce became a member of this unit, with which he took part in the Hitler putsch on November 8 and 9, 1923 , in which his brother Karl Laforce was shot dead as a participant in the putschists' march to the Feldherrnhalle . After the coup was suppressed, Laforce was arrested.

In April 1924, as part of the trial of forty members of the raiding party before the Munich People's Court , Laforce was sentenced to fifteen months of imprisonment with the prospect of early release after serving a few months. He was then taken to the Landsberg Fortress, where he shared captivity with Hitler, Rudolf Hess , Hermann Kriebel , Friedrich Weber and twenty-one other raiding troops.

In 1933 he reported on a visit to Hitler's cell in November 1924, who wrote the manuscript of Mein Kampf there .

Laforce initially did not rejoin the NSDAP, which was newly founded in 1925. On May 1, 1933 , he became a party member again ( membership number 2,944,305). In May of the same year he was also admitted to the SS (membership number 89.103). In this he was continuously promoted in the following years: On November 9, 1933, he reached the rank of SS-Untersturmführer and on November 9, 1936 that of SS-Obersturmführer .

A few weeks after the end of the attack on Poland at the beginning of the Second World War , Laforce became head of the resettlement of ethnic Germans in the so-called Warthegau , the western part of the German-occupied part of Poland, which was intended to be incorporated into the German Reich in December 1939 . appointed. He kept this position, in which the organization of the (often compulsory) resettlement of people, who were considered ethnic Germans in the sense of the National Socialist racial ideas, to the area of ​​the Warthegau or of undesired "elements" out of this into the General Government, was retained until for May 1941. During this time he was promoted to SS-Hauptsturmführer on November 5, 1940 with effect from November 9, 1940 .

From June 3, 1941, Laforce officiated as staff leader of the representative of the Reich Commissioner in Styria (RKS); shortly before that, on June 1, 1941 , he had been promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer .

On September 15, 1942, Laforce was assigned to the field command post of SS chief Heinrich Himmler and to the task force of Standartenführer Henschel ( general district Zhitomir ). There he was promoted to Hauptsturmführer of the Waffen SS on September 25, 1942, effective September 10, 1942.

From March 24, 1943 to February 10, 1943, Laforce officiated as head of the resettlement staff at the site commander and area governor in Hegewald , Heinrich Himmler's headquarters in the Ukraine. As early as September 25, 1942, he had also held the post of student council leader of the Waffen-SS settlement group at the headquarters of the Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Volkstum , which he officially held until September 30, 1944.

On December 10, 1943, Laforce fell ill with a cerebral haemorrhage in Zhytomyr . It was then no longer used.

literature

  • Andreas Schulz / Dieter Zinke: The generals of the Waffen SS and the police. The military careers of the generals, as well as the doctors, veterinarians, intendants, judges and ministerial officials with the rank of general. Vol. 3 (= Germany's generals and admirals . Ed. V. Dermot Bradley ). Part V, Vol. 3). Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf 2008, ISBN 3-7648-2375-5 , p. 354.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Register Office Munich I: Birth register for the year 1896, birth certificate No. 1896/3299.
  2. ^ David Luhrssen: Hammer of the Gods: The Thule Society and the Birth of Nazism , Potomac Books, Inc., 2012 ( online )
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Andreas Schulz / Dieter Zinke: The generals of the Waffen SS and the police . Vol. 3. Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf 2008, ISBN 3-7648-2375-5 , p. 354.
  4. ↑ Othmar Plöckinger: History of a book: Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf": 1922-1945. A publication by the Institute for Contemporary History, Oldenbourg Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-70533-1 , p. 61 ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Laforce, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German National Socialist and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH after 1943