Wilhelm Nickel (SS member)
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Wilhelm Nickel (born December 10, 1906 in Gelsenkirchen , † after 1971) was a German SS-Hauptsturmführer and participated in the Sonnenburg massacre on 30./31. January 1945 involved.
In 1945, Kriminalrat Nickel was employed at the state police station in Frankfurt an der Oder and carried out the murder of 819 prisoners with 20 men in the Sonnenburg concentration camp on the orders of State Secretary Herbert Klemm . Nickel had the SS number 463,386 and the NSDAP membership number 7,590,395. He was promoted to SS-Hauptsturmführer on July 13, 1943.
SS-Sturmbannführer Heinz Richter and Wilhelm Nickel, who were accused of complicity in manslaughter, were acquitted on August 2, 1971 by the Kiel regional court for lack of evidence.
literature
- Kaspar Nürnberg: Sonnenburg. In: Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (eds.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 2: Early camp, Dachau, Emsland camp. CH Beck, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-406-52962-3 , pp. 200-203.
- Johannes Tuchel : The death sentences of the Court of Appeal from 1943 to 1945: A Documentation , Lukas, Berlin 2016 (p. 45)
Web links
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nickel, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German SS Hauptsturmführer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 10, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gelsenkirchen |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1971 |