Richard Wendler

Richard Wendler

Richard Wendler (born January 22, 1898 in Oberndorf, † August 24, 1972 in Prien am Chiemsee) was a German jurist, SS officers and Nazi politician. From 1933 to 1941 he was mayor of the city of Hof (Saale), and in 1942 lieutenant general of police and SS group leader. Wendler attended elementary school in Bad Reichenhall and a humanistic Gymnasium in Munich. Wendler was during the First World War, 1916-1918 Soldier, most recently with the rank of sergeant. From the spring of 1919 he was a member of several Freikorps and participated in 1920 at the Ruhr battles. He studied from 1919 to 1922 law and political science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, where he also Dr. jur. received his doctorate. From 1924 he served as General Counsel in Stuttgart and graduated with the second state examination in 1925. He then worked as a lawyer in Deggendorf.
Wendler, who founded 1927, the NSDAP group in Deggendorf, occurred at the beginning of July 1928, the NSDAP (membership no. 93116) and the SA. In early April 1933, he joined as a Sturmbannführer of the SA and the SS (SS no. 36.050). In the same month he was appointed Sturmbannführer, in April 1934 Obersturmbannführer, in April 1935, Standartenführer and 1941 to SS-group leader. In early August 1941, he was promoted to major general of police and SS Brigade Commander. On July 21, 1943, he received the appointment as the SS-group leader and lieutenant general of police. From October 1933 he was mayor of court. [3] Wendler left the office of Lord Mayor in 1941 down. In the latter role, he was instrumental in the demolition of the Jewish synagogue in court in November 1938. His sister Mathilde (called Hilde) married in 1926 Gebhard Himmler, the older brother of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, whom she knew from the Academic Choral Society since 1919. After the outbreak of the Second World War Wendler city commissioner in the Polish city of Kielce and the beginning of November 1939 Captain of Czestochowa. [1] In 1940 he took over the same function in Radom and ordered in this function on, inter alia, a ghetto in Czestochowa the system. From 31 January 1942 to 26 May 1943 he was governor of the district of Krakow. Thereafter, until July 22, 1944, was governor of the Lublin district, after he fled from the advancing Red Army. During this time he let his brother Heinrich internal information about the Governor-General Hans Frank and other administration officials to come. In May 1945, he fell into American captivity and led the false name Kummermehr there. For this reason, Wendler was not transferred to Poland, but released in September 1945 from Allied internment. He then worked as a construction worker. On August 3, 1948, he was arrested and imprisoned during the denazification court on 22 December 1948 as the "main culprit" for four years in a labor camp. In April 1949, the sentence was reduced to three years in prison. Wendler denied during the procedure to have known something of the aim of the deportations of the Jews. On September 12, 1952, he was graduated in the group of "tainted". He was classified as a "fellow traveler" on October 28, 1955; Grace decision of the Bavarian Prime Minister William Hoegner and could thus again in 1955 received his admission to the bar in Munich. Since 1 July 1953, he had worked for a lawyer for legal protection organization of the Evangelical Relief and Works Agency and sat down once and for German prisoners war in Poland. In the investigation of the prosecution Hof 1951, he was put out of persecution, the method of the StA Munich was set at 1966, another investigation was terminated on October 5, 1970.

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