Wolfgang Reinholz

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Wolfgang Reinholz (born October 31, 1911 in Bromberg ; † July 2, 1995 in Trier ) was a German lawyer and SS leader.

Life

The son of a primary school principal studied after attending school in Bonn , where he temporarily served as chairman of the court of honor of the student body. In 1932 Reinholz became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 1.165.419).

In the 1930s Reinholz joined the Schutzstaffel (SS) (membership number 310.076), in which he was finally accepted into the security service of the Reichsführer SS (SD) at the end of 1937 . From the end of 1941 he was in the rank of Sturmbannführer head of Section III A (questions of the legal order and the building of the Reich) in Office Group III (German areas of life - SD-Inland). In this position he succeeded Karl Gengenbach .

On September 1, 1942, Reinholz was promoted to Sturmbannführer. In 1942/1943 he worked for Einsatzkommando 11b in the occupied Soviet Union.

In 1943 Reinholz was deputy head of the Einsatzkommando 2, Sarajevo, the Einsatzgruppe E of the security police and the SD involved in mass shootings in Croatia .

In autumn 1943 Reinholz took over the management of Section III A 3 in the RSHA again, before he was entrusted with the management of the SD section in Potsdam in November 1944.

After the war, he settled in Trier , found a job at the Burden Equalization Office , switched to the state justice administration and ended his career as presiding judge of the Trier Chamber of the Koblenz Administrative Court .

literature

  • Ernst Klee : The Personal Lexicon for the Third Reich , 2003.
  • Michael Wildt : Generation of the Unconditional. The leadership corps of the Reich Security Main Office , 2002.
  • Thomas Zuche (Ed.), StattFührer. Trier in National Socialism , Paulinus: Trier, 2005 ISBN 3-87760-057-3 StattFührer

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register of the Trier registry office No. 889/1995
  2. ↑ Martin Seckendorf / Günter Keber: Südosteuropa, Italien (= Europe under the swastika, vol. 6), 1992, p. 239.
personal data
SURNAME Reinholz, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Bromberg
DATE OF DEATH July 2nd 1995
Place of death trier