Wilhelm Bisse (June 8, 1881 in Reinbek - † KIA April 1946) was a German merchant, Reedereivertreertreter, legation councilor and Reichstagsabordinate of the NSDAP.
Life[]
Bisse was born June 8, 1881 in Reinbek located in Stormarn district in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He completed elementary school in Reinbek and secondary school in Bergedorf in March 1897. After a commercial apprenticeship and employment in a Hamburg agency, Bisse was a reedereal operator at the German East Africa Line of the shipowner Adolph Woermann. For the shipping company Bisse was active in Africa from 1905, from 1907 as a representative in German East Africa. Starting from 1910 he took over the direction of the main agency of the shipping company in Daressalam, became Reichskommissar (Imperial Commissioner) of the Imperial Navy and assessors in the Oberlandesgericht (Higher State Court) of Daressalam. In the First World War, Bisse belonged from 28 November 1914 to 12 March 1915 and then again from the 13th. August 1916 of the Schutztruppe in German East Africa under Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck . On November 18, 1917, he fell into British war. Finally, he was detained on a detention camp in Cairo, on 26 October 1919 he was released. Awarded with the Iron Cross II Class on March 15, 1920, he left the military service.
In Bivou and Ullmann, from March 1925 to March 1925 he was co-owner of the export house "Bisse & Ullmann", from April 1925 to February 1930 co-owner of the company "J. Mohrhard, Vater & Sohn "and from June 1926 to June 1934, managing director of" Deutsche Kolonial-Kontor GmbH ".
On 1 December 1931 Bisse joined the NSDAP and initially volunteered in the Auslandsorganisation (AO) of the NSDAP in Hamburg. After the establishment of the National Socialists, he took full-time functions in the AO from 11 August 1933; From April 19, 1934, he was Director of the Foreign Trade Office and Division V of the AO under Ernst Wilhelm Bohle. On 12 November 1933 he received a mandate in the Reichstag. In April 1938 he also took over the Foreign Office as Senior Legation Counsellor Head of Department for raw materials in the Commercial Section. In 1944 he was also an employee for the use of neutral, Especially Swedish ships for the purposes of the Red Cross. In this function he traveled to Geneva on 11 July 1944 to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
After the end of the Second World War, he was arrested on 26 June 1945 in Berlin-Charlottenburg. On April 16, 1946, he was sentenced to death in Berlin by a Soviet military tribunal for war crimes. The death sentence was executed in Berlin.[1]
References[]
- ↑ Klaus-Dieter Müller, Thomas Schaarschmidt, Mike Schmeitzner, Andreas Weigelt: death sentences Soviet military tribunals against German (1944-1947): A historical and biographical study, Göttingen 2015, p 52f.
- Ministry of Foreign Affair. Historical Service (Hrsg.): Biographical Manual of the German External Service 1871-1945, A-F , Volume 1. Schöningh, Paderborn 2000, ISBN 978-3-506-71840-2 . (Not evaluated)
- Joachim Lilla and others (Editor): extras in uniform. The members of the Reichstag 1933-1945. Droste Verlag, Dusseldorf, 2004, p. 43. ISBN 3-7700-5254-4 .
- Klaus-Dieter Müller, Thomas Schaarschmidt, Mike Schmeitzner, Andreas Weigelt: death sentences of Soviet military tribes against Germans (1944-1947): A historical biographical study . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 2015, ISBN 978-3-525-36968-5 .
External links[]
Information about Wilhelm Bisse in the Reichstag database
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