Willy Herbert
Wilhelm "Willy" Ludwig Herbert (born May 28, 1904 in Frankfurt am Main , † September 27, 1969 in Munich ) was a German politician ( NSDAP ) and SS leader .
Live and act
After attending primary school in Frankfurt am Main from 1911 to 1919, the son of a haulage contractor completed an apprenticeship as a hairdresser there from 1919 to 1922 . From 1922 to 1931 he worked as a journeyman hairdresser.
In August 1926 Herbert joined the NSDAP ( membership number 43.222) and became a member of the SA . In June 1927 he moved from the SA to the SS , where he was appointed SS troop leader on July 11, 1929 and subsequently continued to take on leadership roles. On April 1, 1933, after leading the 32nd SS Standard, he was appointed leader of the 33rd SS Standard. His promotion to SS-Standartenführer had already taken place on July 29, 1932.
After he had already belonged to the Wiesbaden municipal parliament and the Hessen-Nassau provincial parliament in March 1933 , he also became a member of the last parliament of the People's State of Hesse . From November 1933 to March 1936 Herbert was a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for constituency 33 (Hessen-Darmstadt) . He ran unsuccessfully for the 1938 Reichstag election.
Initially acting police chief in Darmstadt in September 1933 , Herbert finally held this position from October 1, 1933 to May 15, 1935 in Mainz . He then headed, among other things, the 36th SS Standard in Danzig as a full-time SS leader and then took on other leadership tasks within the SS. From the beginning of October 1937 until the end of the war in 1945, he was Josef Fitzthum's successor and headed the 58th SS Standard in Cologne , where he also became councilor in 1940 .
During the Second World War he was drafted into the Waffen SS in 1940 and did military service with interruptions. Most recently he was transferred to the main office of the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle and was last promoted to SS-Obersturmführer dR in the Waffen-SS in June 1944.
After 1945
After the war ended, Herbert went into hiding without reporting to his family and was therefore declared dead by his wife Irma. He took up residence in Munich, where he also had a job. Due to the unsolved murder of the Nazi functionary Wilhelm Schäfer in July 1933, Herbert was arrested in 1955 because a vehicle registered for him was said to have been near the scene of the crime. However, he was released from custody before the trial. Due to a lack of evidence, the proceedings against Herbert in Frankfurt am Main were discontinued in 1956. In 1955, Herbert's son Gerhard (* 1931) learned of the arrest of his allegedly deceased father from the newspaper. After the divorce, Herbert married a colleague from Munich in 1956.
In March 2014, the retired teacher Gerhard Herbert handed over his father's estate to the Nazi Documentation Center of the City of Cologne . Before that, he had already dealt with his father's Nazi past, whom he briefly met again in 1955 and then saw for the last time in 1963. The son, who appeared as a contemporary witness in front of school classes, had found out through archival inquiries that his father had been transferred to the "Sonderkommando R Lemberg" on October 20, 1942. The responsible district military command of the father was in Lublinitz in the Lublin district of the so-called Generalgouvernement . In this area there were death camps of Operation Reinhardt . His son suspects that his father may have been involved in the Holocaust in this context .
literature
- Joachim Lilla , Martin Döring, Andreas Schulz: extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933–1945. A biographical manual. Including the ethnic and National Socialist members of the Reichstag from May 1924. Droste, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .
Web links
- Willy Herbert in the database of members of the Reichstag
- Entry on Willy Herbert in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
- Herbert, Wilhelm Ludwig. Hessian biography. (As of September 27, 2019). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Petra Pluwatsch: SS-Standartenführer Willy Herbert In the shadow of the father . In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger from March 10, 2014
- ↑ Petra Pluwatsch: "I want to hate him" ( Memento from April 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: Frankfurter Rundschau of April 10, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Herbert, Willy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Herbert, Wilhelm Ludwig (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German SS leader, policeman and politician (NSDAP), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 28, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 27, 1969 |
| Place of death | Munich |