Willi Köhn

Willi Köhn (born July 1, 1900 in Friedland (Mecklenburg) ; † February 1, 1962 ) was a German consul general , functionary of the NSDAP's foreign organization (NSDAP / AO) and most recently with the rank of SS brigade leader on the staff of the Reichsführer SS .

Life

The merchant's son Willi Köhn finished his school career in 1917 with the upper secondary qualification . He took part in the First World War as a war volunteer with the sea pilots . After the end of the war he was a member of the Güstrow volunteer battalion in 1919. From 1919 to 1922 completed commercial training in his father's business and at Karstadt AG . In 1920 he joined the German National Freedom Party. In 1924/25 he was a company commander in the Ehrhardt Brigade . In 1928 he left for Chile and worked there as a bank clerk. In 1930 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 674.734) and was local group leader in Santiago de Chile in 1931 , national group leader of the NSDAP / AO in 1932 and AO foreign commissioner for South America in 1933 . From 1938 Köhn belonged as a representative of the SS , finally as Consul General in Spain (during the civil war, on the side of the putschists) alongside Paul Winzer , Richard Enge (economic expert), Hans Kroeger (for the NSDAP ) and Hans Stille junior. (later secretary of the legation) to the entourage of Wilhelm Faupel in Salamanca . From 1940 he was Ministerialdirigent in the Reich Ministry of Post .

In 1936 Köhn joined the NSDAP's Schutzstaffel (SS, SS-No. 277.325), was appointed SS-Oberführer in 1938 , and on November 9, 1941, SS-Brigadführer. From November 9, 1944, he was on the staff of the Reichsführer SS.

Nazi awards

• War Merit Cross 1st Class with Swords
• War Merit Cross 2nd class with swords
• Cross of honor for front fighters
• Honorary sword of the Reichsführer SS
• SS skull ring

proof

1. ↑ Peter Witte u. a .: Heinrich Himmler's 1941/42 service calendar . Hans Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-7672-1329-X , p. 696 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Döscher : SS and Foreign Office in the "Third Reich". Diplomacy in the shadow of the “final solution”. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-548-33149-1 , p. 169 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
3. ^ Robert H. Whealey: Hitler And Spain . University Press of Kentucky, Lexington 2005, ISBN 0-8131-9139-4 , p. 63 ( limited preview in Google book search).
4. ↑ Frank-Rutger Hausmann: Ernst-Wilhelm Bohle: Gauleiter in the service of party and state (= contemporary historical research, volume 38). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-428-12862-4 , p. 142 ( limited preview in Google book search).
5. ↑ SS-Brigadführer & Major General of the Police (K – N) ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.