Wilhelm Scharpwinkel

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Wilhelm Scharpwinkel (born December 4, 1904 in Eickel ; † October 1947 ) was a German lawyer with the rank of senior government councilor , Gestapo officer , SS leader and head of Einsatzkommando 1 of Einsatzgruppe III in Poland .

Life

Scharpwinkel studied after school attendance law and graduated from the University of Erlangen with promotion to Dr. jur from. The title of his dissertation , published in 1931, is The fiduciary transfer of movables as security . He passed the second state examination in March 1933 in Berlin.

Scharpwinkel, who had already become a member of the NSDAP in 1932 ( membership number 1,053,578), was district press officer of the NSDAP in Bottrop after his studies . He made his living as a lawyer. Scharpwinkel became a member of the SS (SS No. 290.803) and rose to become SS Obersturmbannführer . He joined the Gestapo on October 1, 1936. From there he was transferred to the Liegnitz state police station in 1938 and took over the management of this station from 1939 to 1940 as the successor to Constantin Canaris .

After the beginning of the Second World War , Scharpwinkel was leader of the Einsatzkommando 1 of Einsatzgruppe III, which murdered Polish intellectuals and Jews, until November 1939. In November 1940, Scharpwinkel moved to Wilhelmshaven , where he took over the management of the local state police station. From September 1942 until the end of the war he was the head of the Breslau state police station . In March / April 1944, on the instructions of the Reich Security Main Office , he was responsible for the murder of ten Royal Air Force officers who had escaped from Stalag Luft III and were arrested again . In September 1944 Scharpwinkel was still commander of the security police and the SD (KdS) of the fortress Breslau.

Scharpwinkel was in Soviet custody after the end of the war and was questioned by British investigators about the air murders in 1946.

Scharpwinkel died in Soviet captivity in October 1947.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander B. Rossino: Hitler strikes Poland - Blitzkrieg, Ideology and Atrocity. Kansas City 2003, p. 47
  2. ↑ Klaus-Michael Mallmann, Jochen Böhler and Jürgen Matthäus: Einsatzgruppen in Poland: Presentation and documentation . Scientific Book Society, Stuttgart 2008, p. 29f.
  3. ↑ Klaus-Michael Mallmann, Jochen Böhler and Jürgen Matthäus: Einsatzgruppen in Poland: Presentation and documentation . Scientific Book Society, Stuttgart 2008, p. 104
personal data
SURNAME Scharpwinkel, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, Gestapo employee and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Eickel
DATE OF DEATH October 1947