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Wilhelm Dreimann
Wilhelm Dreimann served as SS Rapportführer at Neuengamme and participant in the Bullenhuser Damm murders. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Neuengamme and Hamburg through documented office, decisions, supervision or operational conduct. It does not assign every crime committed by an institution or region to one individual.
Confirmed findings
- Wilhelm Dreimann was born in Osdorf on 18 March 1904 and was executed in Hameln on 8 October 1946. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- As Rapportführer he helped remove 20 Jewish children and 4 carers from Neuengamme to the murder site at Bullenhuser Damm. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- Memorial sources link him to hanging the adults and, according to Johann Frahm’s testimony, to killing the first 2 children. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; 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 the documented transport of victims and participation in executions to Dreimann, while separately marking that the detail concerning the children comes from a co-perpetrator’s testimony. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Key events and mechanisms
- He helped transport 20 children and 4 carers from Neuengamme to Bullenhuser Damm and participated in the killings that night. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- In 1946 he was sentenced to death, and the sentence was carried out on 8 October 1946. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
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
A British tribunal sentenced him to death in 1946, and the sentence was carried out on 8 October 1946. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Limits of the evidence
Attribution of participation in hanging the first 2 children rests especially on co-perpetrator Johann Frahm’s testimony; Dreimann denied involvement. No approved portrait for publication was found. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Sources
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