Ernst Weimann

Hitler's executive

5 August 1906 in Plettenberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany – 9 August 1996 (Location?)

1933 Joined the SS

The lawyer Ernst Weimann joined the Secret State Police office in Berlin in 1935. After the "Anschluss" he became an employee of the Gestapo headquarters in Vienna. On 15 June 1938, he took over the management of the Gestapo office in Klagenfurt and was thus responsible for the elimination of political and religious opponents, the repression of Slovenes, the persecution of Jews, forced labourers, prisoners of war and homosexuals in the Reichsgau Carinthia. He ultimately decided which Carinthian Slovenes were classified as "hostile to the people and the state", expropriated and deported to camps. In 1941 he married Julia Raspotnik from Klagenfurt. After the occupation of northern Italy, Weimann became commander of the Security Police and the Security Service in Trieste under the Higher SS and Police Commander Odilo Globocnik from Carinthia. From June 1944 he held this position in Bergen (Norway). In September 1946, a Norwegian court sentenced him to death, but the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. After a pardon, he was released in 1953. He remained unpunished in Germany. He became an employee of the Gehlen Organization, the forerunner of the Federal Intelligence Service.