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Ernst Wilhelm Bohle

In the Ministries Case he pleaded guilty to knowing membership in the criminal SS, received 5 years and was released in December 1949. 1903–1960

Ernst Wilhelm Bohle served as head of the NSDAP Foreign Organization. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in NSDAP organizations outside the Reich through documented office, decisions, supervision or operational conduct. It does not assign every crime committed by an institution or region to one individual.

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Confirmed findings

Ernst Wilhelm Bohle was born on 28 July 1903 in Bradford and died on 9 November 1960 in Düsseldorf. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
From 1933 to 1945 he led the NSDAP Foreign Organization and from 1937 also served as a State Secretary in the Foreign Office. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
As Gauleiter he organized the party apparatus for NSDAP members abroad; the profile does not attribute charges on which he was acquitted. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
In the Ministries Case he pleaded guilty to knowing membership in the criminal SS, received 5 years and was released in December 1949. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)

Place in the chain of responsibility

The profile attributes to Ernst Wilhelm Bohle only the documented role and conduct described in the cited sources, without transferring to him every crime committed by the institutions or units with which he was associated. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)

Key events and mechanisms

From 1933 to 1945 he led the NSDAP Foreign Organization and from 1937 also served as a State Secretary in the Foreign Office. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
In the Ministries Case he pleaded guilty to knowing membership in the criminal SS, received 5 years and was released in December 1949. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)

No victim-count ranking

The circle records authority, function and agency. Several profiles may describe different parts of the same persecution chain, so profile-level totals must not be added together.

Postwar accountability

After his release in December 1949 he worked in the private sector and died on 9 November 1960. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)

Limits of the evidence

The conviction concerned count 8 and SS membership; other allegations are not presented as finally proved. No individual victim total is assigned, and no additional order or act is attributed without an explicit source finding. No portrait with clearly documented publication rights was found. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)

Sources

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