Wilhelm Nickel

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the SS officer, see Wilhelm Nickel (SS member) .

Friedrich Wilhelm Nickel (born June 6, 1887 in Berlin ; † unknown, allegedly April 13, 1940 , location unknown) was a German police officer.

Life

Nickel was appointed detective commissioner on October 1, 1923. From 1931 to 1932 he worked in Department 8 (treason and espionage) of Department I of the Berlin Police Headquarters .

Since January 1934 Nickel acted with the rank of detective commissioner as head of commissioner 1 ("Industrial and economic espionage as well as Czechoslovakia, Austria, Balkans and pacifists") in the main department IV (defense department) of the secret state police in Berlin. He was subordinate to Günther Patschowsky .

On June 9, 1934, in connection with the reorganization of the authority, after Reinhard Heydrich was appointed head of the commissariat , Nickel was transferred to the Trier state police station , where he took over the management of the Saar department. In 1935 he was seconded to the state police station in Saarbrücken . This transfer was probably in connection with the vote in the Saar area in spring 1935 on the further state membership of the same, which Nickel seems to have prepared from Trier. In Saarbrücken, Nickel, who had also been a member of the NSDAP since 1934 , routinely represented the Gestapo chief Anton Dunckern as a criminal adviser .

In a list of the data from interrogation protocols of the employees of the Gestapo Trier by the victorious powers after the end of the war, the following is stated: Department III (counter-espionage) - "NICKEL, Kriminalkommissar, SS-Hauptsturmführer, Died Spring 1940". So he is not to be confused with the detective Wilhelm Nickel.

literature

• Christoph Graf : Political police between democracy and dictatorship. Berlin 1983.