Wilhelm Oxenius

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Wilhelm Oxenius (1945)
Colonel-General Jodl signs the unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht in Reims (May 7, 1945); Oxenius is seated on Jodl's right, Admiral von Friedeburg on Jodl's left .
Von Friedeburg, Jodl and Oxenius, opposite the Allied officers

Wilhelm Oxenius (born September 9, 1912 in Kassel ; † August 13, 1979 ) was a German officer during the Second World War . He became famous as an interpreter during the signing of the surrender on May 7, 1945 in Reims . He later worked for the Gehlen Organization and the Federal Intelligence Service .

Military career

Oxenius was a soldier in the Wehrmacht even before the war. In June 1944 he was a staff officer for Panzer Group West in France and was then promoted to the rank of major i. G. Adjutant to Colonel General Alfred Jodl in the High Command of the Wehrmacht . Oxenius signed the partial capitulation in Reims together with Admiral General Hans-Georg von Friedeburg and Alfred Jodl. From May 10, 1945 to January 3, 1948 he was in Allied captivity.

Work for the Gehlen Organization and the Federal Intelligence Service

After the war, Oxenius became an employee of the Gehlen Organization and remained there after it was transferred to the Federal Intelligence Service (BND). According to media reports, Oxenius was Reinhard Gehlen's head of security there. He was considered a vehement anti-communist and propagated the theory of the continued existence of a communist organization in the form of the Red Orchestra .

Fonts

  • The sea as a parable in Matthew Arnold . Diss. Tübingen 1951. at DNB

literature

  • Klaus W. Tofahrn: The Third Reich and the Holocaust. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 3-631-57702-8 , p. 250

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ stern.de: End of the war - Defeated, liberated, occupied - Germany 1945-48. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 7, 2013 ; Retrieved October 14, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stern.de
  2. ↑ Volker Ullrich: Second World War: Dönitz and the long road to surrender . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . ( nzz.ch [accessed on May 3, 2020]).
  3. ^ Rainer Blasius: Beginnings of the BND: crosshairs, fireworks, feeding trough . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed March 19, 2020]).

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SURNAME Oxenius, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer during World War II
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1979