Wilhelm Mäurer

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Wilhelm Mäurer (born May 8, 1898 in Gladbach ; † 1987 ) was a German Gestapo police officer .

Live and act

Since 1929 Mäurer was the political director of the government in Trier and personal advisor to the local government president Konrad Saaßen . In 1933 he was promoted to the government council and entrusted with the construction of the Stapo post in Trier. According to the historian Graf, this was of particular importance with regard to the “fight against emigrants” and the “recovery of the Saar”.

In December 1933 Mäurer was first sent to the Secret State Police Office (Gestapa) in Berlin for three months , where he was employed in Department II F (foreigners, emigrants, Jews, Freemasons and the Saar area). On February 8, 1934, he was finally taken over into this authority. According to his own statements, Mäurer had been delegated to the Gestapa to ward off party influences and attacks. On the other hand, the first Gestapo chief Rudolf Diels claimed after the war that Mäurer had been involved in the intrigues of the SS leadership against him, which in April 1934 led to Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich taking over the Gestapo .

After April 20, 1934, Mäurer, who had been a member of the NSDAP since May 1, 1933 ( membership number 3.012.761), was transferred to the government in Hanover . In 1939 he was promoted to the Upper Government Council and transferred to Karlsbad in the Reichsgau Sudetenland . In 1942 he was promoted to government director there.

After the Second World War , Mäurer was classified in category IV (fellow travelers) as part of the denazification process and then employed as a government director in the Ministry of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia .

The police administration regulations for the Reichsgau Sudetenland , commented on by Mäurer, were placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the German Democratic Republic .

According to Graf, the files relating to Mäurer speak “for a politically significant and successful activity in the service of Mäurer and in the interests of the Gestapo and the National Socialist rulers in the Diels era”.

Mäurer had been a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Alania Bonn since 1920.

Fonts

  • The Police Administration Ordinance for the Reichsgau Sudetenland. With relevant laws, ordinances and decrees. Berlin 1940.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mäurer, Wilhelm in: The Federal Archives: Central database of bequests. Retrieved January 11, 2015
  2. ↑ Hand files Wilhelm Mäurer 1949–1963 Landesarchiv NRW
  3. ^ Ministry of National Education of the German Democratic Republic List of the literature to be sorted out
personal data
SURNAME Mäurer, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German police officer
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Gladbach
DATE OF DEATH 1987