Wilhelm Traupel

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Wilhelm Traupel (born May 6, 1891 in Mainz , † February 7, 1946 in Recklinghausen ) was a German SS-Oberführer (1939), manager at Friedrich Krupp AG and governor of both district associations in the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau .

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Traupel was born into a family of butchers. He attended the upper secondary school and the higher commercial school in Mainz and then completed a commercial training. He did his military service in 1911 and then stayed abroad until 1912. After returning to Germany, he worked in the iron and steel industry in Brebach from June 1912. From 1914 to 1918 he took part in the First World War and retired from the army at the end of the war with the rank of lieutenant . He joined Krupp AG at the beginning of January 1914, where he quickly made a career. He rose to the position of authorized representative for the entire group and director of the harvesting machinery sales company.

On December 1, 1930, he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 332,674). He was also a member of the SA from the beginning of February 1931 to the end of June 1933 , from which he then switched to the SS (membership number 74,674). In the NSDAP, he was initially involved as a speaker, economic advisor and local group leader. He was one of the signatories of the petition of the Economic Policy Association Frankfurt am Main , which demanded the participation of the NSDAP in government. In the summer of 1931 he left the Krupp Group and switched to the NSDAP's own "Frankfurter Volksblatt", which he headed until 1933. In 1933 he became an unpaid city councilor in Frankfurt am Main . He also belonged to the Nazi organizations Reichsbund der Deutschen Officials , Reichsluftschutzbund and the Lebensborn .

From September 1933 he was governor in Wiesbaden ( district association Nassau ) and from the beginning of January 1936 also governor in Kassel ( district association Hessen ). Within the SS, he was promoted to SS-Oberführer in January 1939 and worked in the SD main office in 1940. From April 1941 to April 1944 he served in the Wehrmacht and was deployed in the military administration in France. He was then on hold and on November 9, 1944, he was transferred to the Reich Security Main Office in Berlin . Traupel committed suicide on February 7, 1946 suicide at the detention Recklinghausen.

On the initiative of the university rector Theodor Mayer , Traupel was appointed honorary senator of the University of Marburg on July 6, 1940 "for the amalgamation of the cultural offices of the state administration in Marburg". The future rector speculated in 1946 that Traupel had been honored for his support of National Socialist cultural policy, and suggested that the honor be withdrawn. The withdrawal was not made because Traupel died in the internment camp in Recklinghausen on February 7, 1946.

literature

  • Peter Sandner: Administration of the murder of the sick: the district association Nassau under National Socialism . Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2003. online (PDF; 1.0 MB)
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 629.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Peter Sander: Administration of the Sick Murder - The Nassau District Association in National Socialism , Gießen 2003, p. 743
  2. ^ Rolf Jehke: Territorial changes in Germany and German administered areas 1874 - 1945 - Province of Hessen-Nassau , Herdecke
  3. ↑ See Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 629.
personal data
SURNAME Traupel, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manager, SS leader and National Socialist
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1946
Place of death Recklinghausen