Wilhelm Noelle

Wilhelm Nölle (born January 26, 1904 in Brächen , Rhineland , † unknown) was SS-Obersturmbannführer and senior government councilor.

Life

He became a member of the SS on March 13, 1933 (SS No. 134,702). He became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 2,323,554) on May 1, 1933 . He then belonged to the security service of the Reichsführer SS (SD).

Under SS-Standartenführer Horst Böhme he held the post of head of the Stapo in Brno . He then headed the SD in Trier .

On May 11, 1940, Nölle became head of the Gestapo in Luxembourg with the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer . In addition, he took over the command of the Einsatzkommando Luxemburg founded on August 16 . At the end of February 1941, due to differences with Gauleiter Gustav Simon on issues relating to the deportation of Jews, he had to hand over the management of the task force to SS-Obersturmbannführer Fritz Hartmann ; At the beginning of March, the Gestapo leadership in Luxembourg was handed over to Hartmann.

In 1944 he was a member of the SD command in Marseille . When, in the fall of 1944 his unit from Vesoul to Strasbourg led without a command of the installation, it was because of military disobedience by the SS and police court Braunschweig on 16 September 1944 to six months imprisonment sentenced.

In 1949, as part of the Gestapo or Einsatzkommando trial, there were investigations against Nölle in the proceedings before the Court of Justice for War Criminals in Luxembourg (the files on this are in the Federal Archives ). Nölle was sentenced to 12 years of forced labor in absentia in 1951. Hartmann, who was initially sentenced to death , was later pardoned and in 1957 deported to the Federal Republic of Germany.

Web links

• Biographical note from Nölle (ital.)
• Reconstruction of Wilhelm Nölle's SS career (ital.)
• Member of the Luxembourg Task Force ( Memento from August 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
• Questionnaire on Wilhelm Nölle from 1937
• Report of loss of Wilhelm Nölle's SS ID from January 3, 1943
• On September 9, 1944, Nölle was sentenced to 6 months of imprisonment for military disobedience
• Federal archive : Gestapo or Einsatzkommando trial. Proceedings before the court for war criminals in Luxembourg against Wilhelm Nölle, Oberregierungsrat, etc.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Wolfgang Benz (ed.): Dimension of the genocide. The number of Jewish victims of National Socialism (sources and representations on contemporary history; vol. 33). Oldenbourg, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-486-54631-7 . P. 96.