Willi Willing

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Willi Willing (born February 8, 1907 in Berlin ; † November 20, 1983 in Berchtesgaden ) was a German electrical engineer and professor of electrical engineering at the Technical University of Berlin and Gaudozentenbundführer of Berlin.

Life

The son of a Berlin tool lathe operator studied electrical engineering at the TH Berlin and became a member of the NSDAP in June 1928 . Willing joined the SA in 1929 and switched to the SS in 1931 . From 1932 he worked for the SD . From 1932 he was employed as an assistant at the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg. Here he raised an "efficient V-men network of scientific employees". From October 1933 he headed the teaching staff at TH Berlin. In 1934 he became area manager and in 1935 Gaudozentenbundführer of the Berlin Nazi lecturers' association . This made Willing the highest-ranking party official at the Berlin universities. He held this position until 1944. On April 1, 1935, he became senior engineer at the TH Berlin. He was there with a dissertation on the economics of power supply of household doctorate . From 1935 to 1937 he was an assistant to the research department in the Reich Ministry of Science .

After he had suspended Karl Willy Wagner in January 1936 , he was acting director of the Heinrich Hertz Institute from February 1936 to March 1937 . On April 1, 1937, he was appointed associate professor at the TH Berlin and became full professor for electrical engineering on July 1, 1940.

With the SS, Willing achieved the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer in 1939 . After a conflict with the engineer inspector of the OKH Lieutenant General Philipp Linn , who described the defense technology faculty as "nonsense", a court hearing followed. In the process, Willing relied on his duty of confidentiality as an SD employee. On the basis of this statement, Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler had Willing tried by an SS court, which, however, did not pronounce a judgment until the end of the war.

From 1942 Willing was deputy head of Office C III in the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office , where he was involved in the organization of forced labor for concentration camp prisoners. In the autumn of 1943 he moved to the construction group at the Higher SS and Police Leader East in the Generalgouvernement with official headquarters in Krakow . Starting in December 1944, Willing used funds from the Defense Technology Faculty of the TH Berlin to organize a chemists' command in the Flossenbürg concentration camp , which was to produce a warfare agent detector.

From 1964 to 1971 he lived in Braunschweig.

publication

  • with Bernhard Endrucks and Hans Lambrecht: Report on tasks in the electrical industry ; Berlin: Willing 1933-34
  • The economy of the household electricity supply. An electricity economic study taking into account the cooking power supply ; 1938

literature

Web links

  • Marie-Luise Bott (Ed.): The attitude of the Berlin University in National Socialism - Max Vasmer's retrospective 1948. News from the history of the Humboldt University of Berlin, Volume 1. Humboldt University of Berlin, 2009. ISBN 978-3-9813135 -6-7 PDF

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Rüdiger Hachtmann : Science management in the "Third Reich" . Wallstein Verlag, 2007, ISBN 9783835301085 , p. 279– (accessed on May 22, 2011).
  2. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 678.
  3. ↑ a b Gerd Simon: Prisoner Research (PDF; 119 kB)
  4. ↑ Excerpt from the unpublished biography of my father Dr. phil. Alfred Thoma on www.ulrichthoma.de
  5. ↑ Florian Schmaltz: Warfare agent research in National Socialism. On the cooperation between Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes, the military and industry , Göttingen 2005, p. 182f
  6. ↑ Florian Schmaltz: Warfare agent research in National Socialism. On the cooperation between Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes, the military and industry , Göttingen 2005, p. 142
  7. ↑ Never heard of it . In: Der Spiegel , issue 5/1969 of January 27, 1969
personal data
SURNAME Willing, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German electrical engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1983
Place of death Berchtesgaden