Wilhelm Rohrmann

Wilhelm Rohrmann (* 28. September 1905 in Oberhausen , † 14. September 1983 ) was a German lawyer, detective and hauptsturmführer which the Nazis at the company Zeppelin cooperated. In the post-war period he worked from 1955 to 1964 in the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) as head of the identification service department.

Life

Wilhelm pipe man was the son of a civil engineer, graduated after high school to study law , laid in 1932, the first state examination and was at the University of Erlangen with a published 1,936 criminal working for Dr. jur. PhD .

time of the nationalsocialism

Rohrmann joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 and the General SS on June 30, 1933 with membership number 190.866 .

In 1936 he entered the service of the Aachen criminal police and in 1937/38 went through the 12th criminal commissioner trainee course at the driving school of the security police and the SD in Berlin-Charlottenburg. From February 1, 1942, he worked at the police control center in Poznan as head of the fraud and corruption department. In addition, as a court trainee and SS-Hauptsturmführer, he worked on SS personnel matters for the Poznan office. In an assessment from 1942 it says:

"He stands up ruthlessly for the interests of the state and the party."

In September 1942 Rohrmann was promoted to SS-Hauptsturmführer and on October 6, 1942, he was seconded to the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA). In Office VI (“Abroad”) of the RSHA, headed by Walter Schellenberg , a group “VI C 'Russian-Japanese area of ​​influence' with the special section VI C / Z ' Company Zeppelin '” was set up, headed by Heinz Graefe . Rohrmann worked until July 31, 1943 as the head of the personnel department of the "Company Zeppelin", which was responsible for the recruitment of Soviet prisoners of war and their training in sabotage behind the Eastern Front . These were drilled in special camps, including in a section of the Auschwitz concentration camp , and, if they fell ill and were no longer needed to keep secrets, murdered. Rohrmann's competencies went beyond pure personnel management and also extended into the organizational area. When a “ Leubus Special Camp ” was to be set up , he instructed by telex dated October 30, 1942:

"Request the establishment of the camp to be carried out more quickly and to report execution as soon as possible."

Reports that Soviet prisoners of war, who were no longer usable for the Zeppelin company, were brought to the SS special camp Auschwitz for " special treatment " and murdered there, also passed through Rohrmann's desk.

post war period

From 1955 Rohrmann worked in a managerial position at the Federal Criminal Police Office as head of department for monodactyloscopy , which is used to identify the fingerprints left at the scene of the crime. In 1963 he was questioned by officials from the State Criminal Police Office in North Rhine-Westphalia that a letter stating that the Soviet prisoners of war Gatchkow and Semjenov, who had originally been recruited for the Zeppelin company, were sent to the SS for special treatment on January 29, 1943 Special camp Auschwitz were transferred and died there on the same day, expressly to the RSHA - Office VI C / Z - "for the attention of SS-Hauptsturmführer Dr. Rohrmann ”, was addressed. Rohrmann replied that there was probably a bureaucratic oversight and, when he was held up against the testimony of a Polish witness, said that “between 1942 and 1944, a total of around 200 Russian zeppelin people, individually or in small groups, were brought to Block II and there within Few days were executed ”. As an employee dealing purely with personnel matters, he had nothing to do with such measures.

On April 1, 1964, Rohrmann was seconded to the Federal Statistical Office and retired on September 30, 1965.

Fonts

• The criminal meaning of the worsening of a success by a previous non-participant . Geilenkirchen 1936 (University of Erlangen, Jur. Diss.)

literature

• Imanuel Baumann, Herbert Reinke, Andrej Stephan, Patrick Wagner : Shadows of the Past. The BKA and its founding generation in the early Federal Republic . Edited by the Federal Criminal Police Office, Criminalistic Institute. Luchterhand, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-472-08067-1 ( police + research , special volume). ( Download as PDF file)
• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
• Dieter Schenk : Blind in the right eye. The brown roots of the BKA . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-462-03034-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Wilhelm Rohrmann in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 505.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Imanuel Baumann, Herbert Reinke, Andrej Stephan, Patrick Wagner: Shadows of the past. The BKA and its founding generation in the early Federal Republic . Edited by the Federal Criminal Police Office, Criminalistic Institute. Luchterhand, Cologne 2011 ( police + research , special issue), p. 114.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Dieter Schenk: Blind in the right eye - The brown roots of the BKA . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2001, p. 175.
4. ↑ Michael Wildt: Generation of the Unconditional. The leadership corps of the Reich Security Main Office. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-930908-87-5 , p. 671.
5. ↑ Dieter Schenk: Blind in the right eye - the brown roots of the BKA . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2001, p. 175 f.
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} Dieter Schenk: Blind in the right eye - The brown roots of the BKA . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2001, p. 176.