Wilhelm von Grolman

Wilhelm von Grolman

Wilhelm Christian von Grolman (born July 16, 1894 in Schweidnitz , † June 20, 1985 in Hechendorf am Pilsensee ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and a National Socialist police officer. After he had to resign from the Prussian or Bavarian police service during the Weimar Republic because of his involvement in the Kapp Putsch or Hitler Putsch , Grolmann began a career as a full-time SS and SA leader in 1930 . In 1935 he returned to the Prussian civil service and worked in the Reich Ministry of the Interior and in the main office of the Ordnungspolizei . In September 1942 he became police chief of Leipzig . From November 1933 until the end of the Nazi regime in spring 1945, he was also a member of the National Socialist Reichstag .

Life

He came from the noble family Grolman and was the eldest son of Colonel Ludwig von Grolman and Margarete Schmidthals. From 1906 to 1914 Grolman was trained in the cadet corps . From 1914 he took part in the First World War. In December 1918 he joined the Reinhard Volunteer Regiment , which, as a free corps , was instrumental in the suppression of the Berlin Spartacus uprising . In June 1919 he retired from active military service with the rank of first lieutenant .

From June 4, 1919 to March 1920, Grolman was a member of the Berlin Security Police , from which he resigned in 1920 due to his involvement in the Kapp Putsch . He became a consulate employee in Sweden in 1920 and joined the Bavarian State Police in Munich in May 1923 as a first lieutenant . On November 9, 1923, Grolmann took part in the Hitler putsch and was therefore dismissed from the police force. Until 1929 he made his living in a commercial position. Between 1924 and 1926 he was a member of the Young German Order .

On May 1, 1930, Grolman joined the NSDAP (No. 352.864) and SS (No. 4.130). From May to December he was Hitler's special representative in Austria . On December 1, 1930, he received the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer . He left the SS in May 1931 because he was transferred to the SA . Here he was employed as a full-time leader in the SA group Silesia. Promoted to SA-Oberführer on July 31, 1931 , from August 1, 1931 to March 1, 1932, he was the leader of the SA sub-group Lower Silesia and then until May 31, 1933 the staff leader of the SA-group center. Grolmann was employed in the SA sub-group Pomerania East and the SA sub-group Central Silesia South until he became leader of SA Brigade 18 in Görlitz on September 15, 1933 . On December 1, 1933, he was also a city councilor in Görlitz.

On May 1, 1935, Grolmann re-entered the Prussian civil service with the rank of captain of the police in Berlin. At the same time he was used as a leader in the SA group Berlin-Brandenburg. Promoted to major in January 1936, Grolmann was transferred to the Reich Ministry of the Interior in April 1936 , where he was second adjutant to the minister until June 1937 . From June 1937 to December 1940 he was chief adjutant and at the same time head of work area P Ic in the command office of the main office of the Ordnungspolizei . In addition, from 1937 he was an honorary judge at the People's Court .

At his request on April 20, 1938, Grolmann was re-admitted to the SS on January 27, 1939 and appointed SS-Oberführer . He was now a leader in the staff of Reichsführer SS until 1945 . After he had been promoted to Colonel of the Schutzpolizei on November 9, 1939, he came to the Main Office of the Ordnungspolizei on October 18, 1940. Here he headed Office Group II (personnel matters) until September 1942. As major general of the police and SS brigade leader , he was to become police president of Munich in the summer of 1942, but was rejected by Gauleiter Adolf Wagner . Instead, in September 1942, he was initially acting and from 1943 finally full police chief of Leipzig

From November 1933 until the end of Nazi rule in spring 1945, Grolman was a member of the National Socialist Reichstag , in which he represented constituency 7 (Breslau). After the end of the war, Grolmann lived in Hechendorf on the Pilsensee .

literature

• Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform: the members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the Volkish and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924 . Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .

Web links

• Wilhelm von Grolman in the database of members of the Reichstag