Wilhelm Simon (SS member)
Wilhelm Simon (born April 23, 1900 in Wuppertal , † September 27, 1971 in Bochum ) was a German SS-Oberscharführer and employed as a labor leader in the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp .
Life
Simon, who worked as a commercial clerk in textile factories from 1919 to 1935, had been a member of the NSDAP and the SS since August 1932 . From 1935 to 1939 he headed the clearing office and a district office of the Rhineland Medical Association and then a district office in the Wuppertal nutrition office until the beginning of 1941.
From mid-January 1941 to the summer of 1942 he was employed as a member of the SS-Totenkopfverband in the security team of the Buchenwald concentration camp and then worked for the labor officer in the Buchenwald concentration camp. On December 1, 1943, he was transferred to Dora-Mittelbau, at that time still a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp , where he worked as a labor deployment leader until April 1945. Simon, who was promoted to SS-Oberscharführer in May 1944, was tasked as labor deployment leader with keeping the prisoner occupation file, introducing a bonus system for prisoners and reporting to Buchenwald about the status of prisoner labor deployment. Together with Wernher von Braun , Simon selected prisoners in the Buchenwald concentration camp for the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp for the production of the retribution weapon 2 (V2) . On April 5, 1945 he was in charge of an evacuation transport with 350 prisoners from Dora-Mittelbau to the Ebensee concentration camp .
After he had been transferred to a Wehrmacht unit on May 3, 1945, he was captured on May 8, 1945. On May 9, 1945, he probably managed to escape from captivity.
After the end of the war
Simon was later arrested and in 1947 was in American custody in the Dachau internment camp . He was indicted with 18 other accused in the Dachau Dora Trial , which took place as part of the Dachau Trials from August 7, 1947 to December 30, 1947, and sentenced to life imprisonment. Simon is said to have severely mistreated prisoners by hitting them with a stick and the barrel of his pistol and was also a member of the execution squad in Dora-Mittelbau.
He was released early from the Landsberg War Crimes Prison in 1954 . Simon, who applied for compensation for prisoners of war, worked as a self-employed sales representative after his release from prison. Nothing is known about Simon's further life.
literature
- Case No. 000-50-37 (US vs. Kurt Andrae et al.) Tried 30 Dec 47 (English, PDF file, 28.1 MB)
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945. , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 584
- ↑ The moon over Peenemünde - Wernher von Braun and the spirit of barbarism ( memento of the original from November 10, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 12 kB)
- ↑ Case No. 000-50-37 (US vs. Kurt Andrae et al.) Tried 30 Dec 47 (English, PDF file, 28.1 MB)
- ↑ Case No. 000-50-37 (US vs. Kurt Andrae et al.) Tried 30 Dec 47 (English, PDF file, 28.1 MB)
- ↑ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 584
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Simon, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German SS-Oberscharführer, labor leader in the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wuppertal |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 27, 1971 |
| Place of death | Bochum |