Wilhelm Welter (SS member)

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Wilhelm Welter in American internment. Photo from 1945.

Wilhelm Welter (born January 24, 1913 , † May 29, 1946 in Landsberg am Lech ) was a German SS-Hauptscharführer and employed as a labor service leader in the Dachau concentration camp .

biography

Welter, a trained locksmith, was married and had three children. After joining the SS in 1938, he was a member of the SS Death's Head Associations stationed at concentration camps . Then Welter was employed as a labor service leader in the Dachau concentration camp until July 1943. Then he was transferred to a fighting unit on the Eastern Front at his instigation . On January 17, 1944, Welter received a serious head injury from shrapnel during combat operations and was treated in several hospitals until the end of April 1944. From July 1944 at the latest, Welter was deployed as a command leader in Dachau satellite camps , mainly the Friedrichshafen satellite camp . From January 1, 1945 to the beginning of May 1945 he was a trainer for the Hitler Youth in Birgsau and was transferred to the Waffen SS at the front in the last days of the war . After he was separated from his unit, he returned to Dachau on May 7, 1945 and was arrested there on May 9, 1945.

On November 15, 1945 Welter in Dachau main process , in response to the Dachau trials took place, on charges of war crimes before a US military court found, and on 13 December 1945, 35 other co-defendants to death by the strand convicted. In the judgment, the severe abuse of prisoners, including by being beaten with a whip, was taken into account as individual acts of excess at Welter. The sentence was carried out on May 29, 1946 in the Landsberg War Crimes Prison .

literature


Individual evidence

  1. ^ Holger Lessing: The first Dachau trial (1945/46). , Baden-Baden 1993, p. 318.
personal data
SURNAME Welter, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German labor service leader in Dachau concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1913
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1946
Place of death Landsberg War Crimes Prison