Willi Wolter

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Wilhelm Gustav "Willi" Wolter (born November 14, 1907 in Kleve , † May 18, 1969 in Porz am Rhein, from 1975 Cologne-Porz ) was SS-Hauptsturmführer in the National Socialist German Reich , at the Gestapo in Cologne , in the ID (Criminal matters) of the Reich Security Main Office , commander of the Security Police and SD in Metz and leader of the Einsatzkommando 15 of the Einsatzgruppe E in Croatia .

biography

Wolter was the son of a railroad master. He attended school in Köslin / Pomerania , where his father was transferred. He passed his Abitur there in 1926 and began studying law and economics in Berlin , Marburg and Königsberg .

While still in his legal traineeship, he joined the Nazi officials' working group in August 1932 and the SA in November 1932 .

time of the nationalsocialism

In his résumé dated September 13, 1938, Wolter justified his career decision after passing the assessor exam as follows:

“[I] decided to join the Political Police, and I was particularly interested in the execution service. For this reason I joined the Secret State Police Office in Berlin on September 1st, 1934 as a criminal inspector candidate. "

Wolter was deployed to the Gestapo in Cologne in 1936 and received a brilliant certificate from the head of the Gestapa, Reinhard Heydrich, in 1937.

Wolter did not join the NSDAP until after 1938 ( membership number 4,616,993). He was admitted to the SS with membership number 307,942. Promoted to government councilor and SS-Sturmbannführer on January 30, 1939, Wolter came to the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA), newly created in September 1939, and headed the department for economic affairs there.

In 1940 he was appointed commander of the Security Police and the SD (BdS) in Metz , after which he returned to the RSHA, to the Office Group ID (criminal matters).

From August 15, 1942, Wolter was deputy head of the Stettin state police station , before he was posted to Einsatzgruppe E in Croatia in May 1943 and tasked with leading the Einsatzkommando 15. In September 1944 he was captured by Yugoslav partisans who exchanged him for Yugoslav officers in German captivity in April 1945.

After the war

After the war, Wolter was classified by a court in Hofgeismar in 1948 as a "minor offender". He last worked as a commercial clerk and lived in Niederkassel-Ranzel , where he married in 1953.

literature

  • Michael Wildt : Generation of the Unconditional. The leadership corps of the Reich Security Main Office. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-930908-75-1 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b Death certificate No. 266 from May 19, 1969, Porz registry office. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved June 22, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Handwritten curriculum vitae, September 13, 1938, Federal Archives , BDC, SSO files Willi Wolter, quoted here from Michael Wildt, Generation des Unbedingten. The leadership corps of the Reich Security Main Office , Hamburg 2002, p. 948.
personal data
SURNAME Wolter, Willi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolter, Wilhelm Gustav (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS Hauptsturmführer
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Kleve
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1969
Place of death Porz on the Rhine