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SS-Brigadeführer Wilhelm Werner (* June 8th, 1888 in Apolda - † May 14th, 1945 in Falkenau (Oberschlesien)) was a German SS-Führer in the Waffen SS during World War II.

Life
Werner was the son of the public prosecutor later to become Max Werner and his wife Eugenie, born Schacke. He was baptized a Protestant and was since 15 October 1925, Henriette-Luise Moewes (born 30 July 1899, at Königshain married). [1]

Imperial Navy
After attending a grammar school in Weimar Werner 1905 joined the Imperial Navy as a midshipman and began his practical training on a torpedo boat of the II. minesweeping Division. In 1906 he became the ensign and 1908 to lieutenant promoted. Then he received a special training of the submarine weapon. From 1910 he did as Lieutenant service as a deck officer on the boats U 1 and U 13. At the outbreak of the First World War Werner was commander of the torpedo boat T 55 2nd Division minesweepers. During the war, uses followed as Halbflottillen chief (August to September 1914), as a security officer in the submarine decline Commission and watch on the U 38 as well as commander of the UB 9 (February 18 to March 1915). In winter 1914/15 he was commander of UB 7, which in the Mediterranean , the Black Sea and the Dardanelles was operating (May 6, 1915 to April 11, 1916). In the summer of 1916 he was promoted to lieutenant commander promoted. This was accompanied by a Staff Exchange. From June 8, 1916, he was commander of U 55, which he commanded until August 3, 1918. With U 55 he undertook 13 patrols and was able to enemy tonnage of nearly 127,000 GRT sunk. For his achievements he was Wilhelm II. the highest Prussian bravery award, the Orden Pour le Mérite conferred. Earlier he had both classes of the Iron Cross and the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with swords received. April 4, 1905: midshipman. April 7, 1906: Midshipman. September 28, 1908: Lieutenant. August 1910: Lieutenant. April 16, 1916: Lieut.

However, Werner were of the Allies several war crimes accused:

On April 8, 1917 he sank the steamer Torrington in the Celtic Sea. The 34 survivors he drowned, in which he ordered to the upper deck of his submarine and then dipped. Only the captain he took as prisoners of war to Germany. On the same patrol he sank on 13 April 1917 steamer Toro. The 14 crew members he murdered in the same way. He took only the captain and another crewman as prisoners of war to Germany. On January 4, 1918 he sank the hospital ship HMHS Rewa, in breach of the Hague Convention of 1907 (Convention X: Convention for the Adaptation to Maritime Warfare of the Principles of the Geneva Convention (of 6 July 1906)). On 31 July 1917, came about 21:00 clock to a serious torpedo attack on the steamer Belgian Prince, who was hit in the midship. Due to the failure of the generators no longer cry for help could be discontinued. 44 man then went into the lifeboats. Werner showed up, leaving on the ship with a machine gun shoot. He then ordered the survivors to come on the upper deck of the submarine. Most which are then lifejackets been removed. The lifejacket was thrown from the German sailors in the sea. Then all the lifeboats were - except for the captain's dinghy riddled with axes -. Then the submarine ran from the still buoyant Prince Belgian two sm from and stopped on the high seas. At 22:00 clock let Werner the submarine dive and the persons on deck drowned all but three survivors. The next day at 7:00 clock Werner left the wrecked Belgain Prince sink with an explosive cartridge. At 8:00 clock the rushed to the scene could Sloop Gladiolus take the three surviving sailors on board and save. [3] He also plunge on 17 July 1918, the RMS Carpathia, which after the fall of the 1912 RMS Titanic 705 survivors took on board and saved from drowning. Werner handed on August 10, 1918, the command of U 55 from Alexander Weiss.

After the war Werner was briefly the Freikorps "Lettow" under the leadership of Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck to. On June 28, 1919 (a. A. March 1, 1920) is his military career in the Reichswehr initially to end. [1]

Interwar period and SS career
Although required by the Allies as a war criminal in accordance with the extradition Werners paragraph 231 of the Versailles Treaty was prevented from the political side, he emigrated to official instruction through in July 1919 an assumed (= false) name to Brazil in the State of São Paulo from. After initial work on a coffee Facenda he eventually found work as "unskilled" architect at the German-Brazilian company Gebr. Weisflog in Caieiras near São Paulo. In the autumn of 1924 he returned to the German Reich and operating under the Leipzig trials resuming his war crimes trial. The Supreme Court adopted Decision of 30 March 1926, the method of murder at the sinking of Torrington except tracking and disposal in all other cases the termination of the proceedings. [2] As of October 1925, he managed the manor of his newly wed wife in Sokolov, district Grottkau. [4]

Promotions in the SS : July 20, 1931: SS storm leader (with effect from 15 July 1931). October 13, 1931: SS Sturmbannführer. March 21, 1932: standartenführer (with effect from 16 March 1932). March 18, 1934: oberführer. September 15, 1935: SS Brigade Commander. Of September 1930, Werner joined the NSDAP in the (membership number 332139) and on June 1, 1931 SS a (member number 9916). In 1931 he was awarded the construction of the SS in Silesia entrusted. In the SS, he reached the rank of SS brigade leader and was for a short time also deputy leader Oberabschnitt southeast. From 1938 it belonged to the personal staff of the Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, and was briefly a liaison officer for the Sudetenland. In the SS he had the following service positions held: [1] July 20, 1931 to 21 March 1932 mandated administrator of SS Sturmbann II / 23.. SS regiment ( district Opole ). March 21, 1932 to 24 December 1932. SS officers 23 SS regiment ( Bytom ). September 10, 1932 (Initial Setup) to 24 December 1933: at the same time SS leader 45th SS regiment ( county Neisse ), assigned to the SS-section VI. 24 December 1932 to 16 November 1933: SS leader zbV the SS-section VI ( Brieg ). November 16, 1933 to August 1, 1935: SS leader (until 03.18.1934 mdFb) SS-section XXIV (Upper Silesia) in Neustadt OS (later Katowice ), assigned SS Oberabschnitt southeast. August 1, 1935 to April 1, 1936: SS leader zbV the SS Oberabschnitts southeast. November 29, 1935: Assessor at the National Tax Office Silesia for customs border staff checks the SS Higa (Higa = auxiliary border employees). April 1936: ideological examiner at the judicial examination office of the Higher Regional Court of Wroclaw. April 1, 1936 to November 1, 1938: SS officer on the staff of the SS Oberabschnitts Southeast, at the same time leader of the SS-Higa-Sturmbann Southeast (until the dissolution of Sturmbann). January 30, 1937 to November 1, 1938: at the same time representative of the leader of the SS Oberabschnitts Southeast ("with longer than 3 days of absence"). April 21, 1937: Deputy difference helpers during the Great Court of Arbitration of the Reichsführer-SS. 24 June-17 July 1937: Deputy RHF SS Oberabschnitt southeast.. June 20, 1938: 4. Arbitration assistant deputy the Great Court of Arbitration of the Reichsführer-SS. June 24, 1938 to July 14, 1938: Managing representative of the leader of the SS Oberabschnitts southeast. November 1, 1938 and 8 May 1945: SS leader in the personal staff of the Reichsführer-SS. 1. November 1938 to August 1939: the same connection between leaders Reichsfuehrer SS and SS-group leader Henlein. [1]

Military career in the Armed Forces or the Waffen SS
April 4, 1937 to April 25, 1937: Convening of the selection exercise in anti-aircraft division 20 (Breslau). August 12, 1937 to September 9, 1937: Convening for Luftwaffe -Wehrübung the Flak Regiment 20 (Wrocław-Hartlieb). 5 August to 14 September 1938: Convening for Luftwaffe -Wehrübung the Flak Regiment 20 in Wroclaw. August 9, 1939: Convening for Luftwaffe -Wehrübung the Staff of the Air District Headquarters Dresden. 20. June 1940 to July 1941: Commander of Flak-Regiment 49 of the 21st Flak-Division. July 1941 to September 1, 1944, commander Flak Regiment 52. 21. March 1944 to January 1945: also Flakeinsatzführer. 1 Fighter Division of the Air Force. 1. September 1944 to January 1945: Commander SS-113 Arko of XIII. SS corps. July 1, 1937: as Major d. R. in the officer corps of the reserve status of the Luftwaffe adopted. August 27, 1939: Lt. Col. d. R. z. V. (Luftwaffe). October 1, 1942: Colonel d. R. (Luftwaffe). December 1942: acquisition in the active service relationship. later as a colonel in the army over.

Political career
When choosing the Prussian parliament on April 24, 1932 (Land list of the NSDAP for the constituency 9 "Opole") his candidature was unsuccessful. In June 1933, he assumed the post of district deputies of the district Grottkau. 1934 he was appointed Prussian Provincial. Of 12 November 1933 to the end of the Nazi regime on 8 May 1945 Werner sat also as MP for the constituency 9 (Opole) in the Nazi Reichstag. [1]

Awards

 * Königlicher Kronen-Orden (Preußen) 5. Klasse. in 1912


 * Königlicher Kronen-Orden (Preußen) 3. Klasse mit Schwertern


 * U-Boot-Kriegsabzeichen (1918). in 1918


 * Ritterkreuz mit Schwertern des Königlichen Hausordens von Hohenzollern on February 15th, 1918


 * Eisernes Kreuz 1. Klasse (1914) in 1914


 * Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse (1914) in 1914


 * Pour le Mérite on August 18th, 1918


 * Preußische Dienstauszeichnung für 15-jährige Dienstzeit in 1920


 * Ehrenkreuz des Weltkrieges mit Schwertern in 1934


 * Dienstauszeichnung der Luftwaffe für 18-jährige Dienstzeit in der Wehrmacht (DA 2) in 1940


 * Wiederholungsspange zum Eisernen Kreuz 2. Klasse (1939) in November 9th, 1944


 * Kriegsverdienstkreuz (1939) 2. Klasse ohne Schwerter


 * Kriegsverdienstkreuz (1939) I. Klasse ohne Schwerter on November 9th, 1944


 * Wiederholungsspange zum Eisernen Kreuz 1. Klasse (1939) in 1945


 * Ehrendegen Reichsführer SS


 * SS-Totenkopfring


 * SS-Julleuchter on December 16th, 1935


 * Dienstauszeichnung der NSDAP in Bronze in 1940


 * Dienstauszeichnung der NSDAP in Silber in 1945