Wilhelm Gustloff (30 January 1895 – 4 February 1936) was the founder of the Swiss NSDAP/AO (the Nazi Party organisation for German citizens abroad) at Davos.
He remained its leader from 1932 until he was assassinated in 1936. ==Life and assassination== Gustloff (a son of merchant Herrmann Gustloff), who worked for the Swiss government as a meteorologist, joined the NSDAP in 1927.
He remained its leader from 1932 until he was assassinated in 1936. ==Life and assassination== Gustloff (a son of merchant Herrmann Gustloff), who worked for the Swiss government as a meteorologist, joined the NSDAP in 1927.
The disaster remains relatively unknown. In 1933 the Nazi Party created the Wilhelm-Gustloff-Stiftung ("The Wilhelm Gustloff Foundation"), a national corporation funded by properties and wealth confiscated from Jews.
Wilhelm Gustloff (30 January 1895 – 4 February 1936) was the founder of the Swiss NSDAP/AO (the Nazi Party organisation for German citizens abroad) at Davos.
He remained its leader from 1932 until he was assassinated in 1936. ==Life and assassination== Gustloff (a son of merchant Herrmann Gustloff), who worked for the Swiss government as a meteorologist, joined the NSDAP in 1927.
Gustloff was shot and killed in Davos in 1936 by David Frankfurter, an Yugoslav Jewish student from what is now Croatia, incensed by the growth of the NSDAP. Frankfurter surrendered immediately to the Swiss police, confessing "I fired the shots because I am a Jew".
Hitler did not want to risk any domestic bouts of Antisemitism to cause Germany to lose the recently awarded right to host the 1936 Summer Olympics, since his anti-Semitic policies had already led to calls to relocate the games. ===Namesakes=== The German cruise ship MV Wilhelm Gustloff was named for Gustloff by the Nazi regime.
Februar 1936: das Attentat auf Wilhelm Gustloff; in: Roland Aergerter (Hrsg.), Politische Attentate des 20.
Jahrhunderts, Zürich, NZZ Verlag, 1999 Matthieu Gillabert, La propagande nazie en Suisse, L'affaire Gustloff 1936, Lausanne, Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, 2008 Emil Ludwig; Peter O.
Ernst Wilhelm Bohle was the first at Gustloff's funeral to recite a few lines in his honour. Gustloff was proclaimed a Blutzeuge of the Nazi cause and his murder became part of the propaganda that served as pretext for the 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom.
His wife Hedwig, who had been Hitler's secretary, received from Hitler personally a monthly "honorary pay" of 400 Reichsmark, the equivalent of some $13,000 today. Unlike the assassination of the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan in Paris in 1938, Gustloff's death was not immediately politicized to incite Kristallnacht.
The ship was sunk by the Soviet submarine S-13 in January 1945 in the Baltic Sea while carrying civilian refugees and military personnel from the advancing Red Army.
Chotjewitz; Helmut Kreuzer (Hrsg.), Der Mord in Davos, Herbstein, März, 1986 Roger Weston: Fatal Return, 2012.
Jahrhunderts, Zürich, NZZ Verlag, 1999 Matthieu Gillabert, La propagande nazie en Suisse, L'affaire Gustloff 1936, Lausanne, Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, 2008 Emil Ludwig; Peter O.
Jahrhunderts, Zürich, NZZ Verlag, 1999 Matthieu Gillabert, La propagande nazie en Suisse, L'affaire Gustloff 1936, Lausanne, Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, 2008 Emil Ludwig; Peter O.
Chotjewitz; Helmut Kreuzer (Hrsg.), Der Mord in Davos, Herbstein, März, 1986 Roger Weston: Fatal Return, 2012.
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