Willy Lages
Willy Paul Franz Lages , also Willi Lages (born October 5, 1901 in Braunschweig ; † April 2, 1971 in Braunlage ) was SS-Sturmbannführer , head of the security service in Amsterdam and, in this function, the superior of the head of the Central Office for Jewish During World War II Emigration in Amsterdam . He was jointly responsible for the deportation of Jews from the Netherlands to the German concentration camps .
Life
Lages began his service with the Braunschweig police force in 1921. At the time of National Socialism , as a detective commissioner, he was deputy head of the Braunschweig state police station until the beginning of October 1940 . Eduard Holste was the head of the department at that time .
During the Second World War , Lages was deployed from October 7, 1940 to the commander of the Security Police and the SD in the German-occupied Netherlands, where he headed the Amsterdam branch. Lages, who was a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 3.552.661), rose within the SS (SS number 267.729) at the beginning of September 1942 to become SS-Sturmbannführer.
Lages participated in the arrest of the resistance leader Johannes Post and was present at his execution on July 16, 1944. In addition, he is jointly responsible for the shooting of the Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft on April 17, 1945.
Lages was sentenced to death in the Netherlands in 1949 . Queen Juliana refused to sign the verdict, so the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 1952 . Lages was imprisoned as one of the four from Breda along with Joseph Johann Kotälla , Ferdinand from the Fünten and Franz Fischer . Due to a serious illness, Lages was released early from prison in 1966 on the initiative of Justice Minister Ivo Samkalden "for humanitarian reasons" and deported to Germany. This decision led to great unrest in the Netherlands.
Lages died in Germany in 1971, five years after his release from prison.
literature
- Harald Fühner: Follow-up. Dutch politics and the persecution of collaborators and Nazi criminals, 1945–1989. Waxmann, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-8309-1464-4 .
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
- Reinhard Bein : Hitler's Brunswick staff. DöringDruck, Braunschweig 2017, ISBN 978-3-925268-56-4 , pp. 142–147.
Web links
- Louisa Lages: Family History. My great-uncle, the SS-Sturmbannführer . In: One day , July 26, 2013.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Gerd Wysocki: Work for the War. Mechanisms of rule in the armaments industry of the “Third Reich”; Labor, social policy and state police repression at the “Hermann Göring” Reichswerke in the Salzgitter area from 1937/38 to 1945. Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-925151-51-6 , p. 527.
- ↑ Gerd Wysocki: Work for the War. Mechanisms of rule in the armaments industry of the “Third Reich”; Labor, social policy and state police repression at the Reichswerke "Hermann Göring" in the Salzgitter area 1937/38 to 1945. Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-925151-51-6 , p. 307.
- ^ Ernst Klee: The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 354.
- ↑ Willi Lages on dws-xip.pl
- ↑ Dutch criminal proceedings against Germans and Austrians for Nazi crimes committed during World War II. In: jur.uva.nl. P. 4 , archived from the original on March 23, 2002 ; accessed on April 22, 2015 (procedure serial number NL171).
- ↑ Deep inside - JUSTICE. In: Der Spiegel 42/1966. October 10, 1966, pp. 55ff , accessed on April 22, 2015 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lages, Willy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lages, Willy Paul Franz (full name); Lages, Willi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German war criminal |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Braunschweig |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 2nd 1971 |
| Place of death | Braunlage |