Max Wielen

Max Ernst Gustav Friedrich Wielen (b. March 3, 1883) was the Kripo police chief at Breslau. He was sentenced to life imprisonment by the War Trials Commission but served only a few years of his sentence and was released October 24, 1952. . Wielen is significant in that he was directly implicated in the Stalag Luft III murders, in which members of the RAF who were involved in the "Great Escape" were killed.