Wilhelm Lampeter, Gottscheer Mannschaftsführer, SS-Sturmbannführer Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act Castel Reichenburg, 1941 Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act, 2001 / 2007 DOCUMENT ID: 171962813 INQNO: GSCAN2D 00531134 DOCNO: PRODUCER: SOURCE: STATE DOCTYPE: DOR: 19830720 TOR: 13200000 DOCPREC: R ORIGDATE: 198307201320 DOCCLASS: U HEADER RR RUEAIIB ZNR UUUUU ZOC STATE ZZH STU5585 RR RUEHC DE RUFHJA #1846 2010605 ZNR UUUUU ZZH R 200605Z JUL 83 FM USMISSION USBERLIN TO RUFHEB/AMEMBASSY BERLIN 4990 INFO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 7161 RUFHOL/AMEMBASSY BONN 1856 BT EZ1: CONTROLS SR2 \UNCLAS USBERLIN 01846\ EZ2: TEXT SR3 DECLASSIFIED AND RELEASED BY CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY SOURCES METHODS EXEMPTION 2828 NAZI WAR CRIMES DISCLOsure ACT DATE 2001 2007 FOR COORDINATION WITH State VO/L/C/ EUR/CE E.O. 12356: N/A TAGS: CVIS, GE (LAMPETER, WILHELM) SUBJECT: POSSIBLE 212(A)33 INELIGIBILITY REF: BERLIN 02993 1. FOLLOWING BDC SUMMARY PROVIDED AS REQUESTED IN REFTEL: LAMPETER, WILHELM FRANZ POB: GRAFENFELD/GOTTSCHEE DOB: JANUARY 22, 1916 ADDRESS: RANN/STEIERMARK, ADOLF HITLER STR. 32 (1942-44) 2. LAMPETER WAS A MEMBER OF THE HITLER YOUTH FROM 1931 TO 1935. HE IS THE HOLDER OF THE GOLDEN HJ BADGE. ACCORDING TO A STATEMENT SIGNED BY HIM, HE ESTABLISHED AN ILLEGAL YOUTH ORGANIZATION WITH NATIONAL SOCIALIST GERMANS FROM THE GOTTSCHEE IN 1932. HE REFERRED TO HIMSELF AS "FUEHRER DER GOTTSCHEER JUGEND". FROM 1937 TO 1938 HE LED THE "B.A.D. ST.", PROBABLY A LEAGUE OF GERMAN STUDENTS LIVING ABROAD. AT THE SAME TIME HE WAS ACTIVE WITHIN THE NATIONAL SOCIALIST STUDENTS' LEAGUE DEALING PRIMARILY WITH NATIONAL SOCIALIST EDCUATION OF YOUNG GOTTSCHEE FARMERS. 3. IN MAY 1939 LAMPETER FOUNDED THE "GOTTSCHEER MANNSCHAFT" (A PARA-MILITARY ORGANIZATION OF ABOUT SEVENTEEN HUNDRED PEOPLE (STAFF AND TWENTY-FIVE COMPANIES) AND HE FUNCTIONED AS LEADER OF THE TROOPS UNTIL HE WAS DRAFTED INTO THE SERBIAN ARMY ON NOVEMBER 20, 1939. 4. IN APRIL 1941 LAMPETER DESERTED THE SERBIAN ARMY AND WENT TO FIGHT WITH THE "GOTTSCHEER MANNSCHAFT" AGAINST THE YUGOSLAVIAN TROOPS. AFTER THE GOTTSCHEE HAD BEEN OCCUPIED BY THE ITALIANS, LAMPETER STARTED TO ORGANIZE THE RESETTLEMENT OF ETHNIC GERMANS FROM THE GOTTSCHEE INTO THE REICH. IN NOVEMBER 1941 HE WAS PERSONALLY CALLED BY REICHSFUEHRER-SS HEINRICH HIMMLER TO BE A RAL SS, EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 9, 1941, SS MEMBERSHIP NUMBER 431439. HIS GENERAL SS RANK WAS SS-STURMBANNFUEHRER (MAJOR). HE SERVED WITH THE STAFF OF SS DISTRICT XXXV. 5. LAMPETER JOINED THE NSDAP ON APRIL 1, 1943, MEMBERSHIP NUMBER 9547990. HE WAS ACTIVE AS GAUHAUPTSTELLENLEITER (MAIN DISTRICT LEADER WITHIN THE NSDAP REGION ADMINISTRATION STEIERMARK). HE SERVED IN THE WAFFEN SS EFFECTIVE JUNE 30, 1942. HIS LAST WAFFEN SS RANK IS INDICATED AS 2D LIEUTENANT. HE SERVED WITH THE FOLLOWING WAFFEN SS UNITS: 1./SS "DER FUEHRER", FROM JUNE 30, 1942; 3./SS "DER FUEHRER", FROM SEPTEMBER 3, 1942; 1 FIELD REPLACEMENT BATTALION "WIKING", FROM NOVEMBER 7, 1942; 11/SS "NORDLAND" FROM DECEMBER 21, 1942; CONVALESCENCE COMPANY, SS TRAINING AND REPLACEMENT BATTALION 5, FROM MAY 17, 1943; SS MOTORISTS TRAINING AND REPLACEMENT REGIMENT, FROM SEPTEMBER 1, 1944, AND AT THE SAME TIME DETAILED TO THE SS MAIN OFFICE. LAMPETER ATTENDED THE 5TH COURSE FOR DISABLED SS OFFICERS AT TOELZ FROM MAY TO AUGUST 1944. LEDSKY NNNN NNDD Josef Gladitsch www.gottschee.de