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Wilhelm "Will" Grosse (born February 26, 1899 in Metz ; † July 2, 1960 in Bonn ) was a German agent and publicist.

Life and activity

In the 1920s, Grosse received his doctorate as Dr. ing. rer. pole. On May 1, 1932, he joined the NSDAP (membership number 1,113,994).

Grosse was already an employee in the Defense Department of the Reich Defense Ministry in the late phase of the Weimar Republic . He presumably retained this position without interruption until 1945: During the Second World War , he can be proven to have been a captain as an employee of Wilhelm Canaris .

In the post-war period, Grosse, who now had the title of graduate engineer, lived in Bonn . At that time he belonged to the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government or at least worked closely with it. In the 1950s, he made a name for himself in public with a series of publications on the history of the defense during the Second World War and on security policy issues in the early years of the Federal Republic. B. on the question of a possible nuclear armament of the West German armed forces. Furthermore, during the period of non-recognition of the GDR by the FRG (see Hallstein Doctrine ) , the Bonn government tried to prove, on the basis of material compiled by Grosse, that the FRG was the only German state, "the GDR, however, hardly existed" .

Fonts

  • “Secret service, oath of the flag and swastika. A critical report from the activities of the military defense ", in: Echo of the week from February 7th to June 9th 1950. (under the pseudonym Observator)
  • The Jewish star - an idea by Canaris , unpublished manuscript undated, deposited in the Institute for Contemporary History (around 1950).
  • "Admiral Canaris, the Sphinx of the OKW - his life and his death", in: Hamburger Morgenpost of October 26, 1950.
  • The ABC of world organizations. Addresses, abbreviations, comments. An Up-to-Date Guide to International Cooperation , 1954.
  • “NATO of the Far East. SEATO, its fellow players and opponents ”, in: Internationales Jahrbuch der Politik , 1954.
  • Paperback of World Organizations , 1955.
  • International Science and Technology Organizations and their Cooperation , 1959.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Irene Strenge: Ferdinand von Bredow, 2009, p. 30.
  2. ^ Society for the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge: German Foreign Policy , Vol. 4, 1959, p. 527.
personal data
SURNAME Big one, Will
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grosse, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German agent and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Metz
DATE OF DEATH July 2nd, 1960
Place of death Bonn