Walther Hewel
Walter or Walther Hevel ( born March 25, 1904, according to other data January 2, 1904 in Cologne, † May 2, 1945 by suicide in Berlin) was an SS brigade leader and Foreign Secretary.
Life and work
Youth and Education
Hewels father was a partner in a cocoa factory. Walter Hevel was the only child of Anton and Elsa Hevel, born Baroness von Linde rock. He attended the grammar school in Cologne and put the Abitur in March 1923. After a half -year internship in a company of Mechanical Engineering, he studied from the winter semester 1923 industrial engineering at the Technical University of Munich. The beginning of 1925 he was working as a commercial trainee in a trading company in Hamburg. In 1926, he completed a one-year language course in the UK. After that he traveled as an employee of the British plantation company Anglo - Dutch Plantations of Java Limited to the Dutch East India, Indonesia today. 1936 Hevel returned back to Germany after he had taken a four- month voyage through the Far East Asia. Hevel was a member of the NSDAP / AO and worked as head of department, head of economic location and press officer of the NSDAP / AO Java Dutch China.
Hitlerputsch
When Hitler Putsch November 9, 1923 Hevel was the flag bearer at the raiding party and Adolf Hitler during the coup, took part in all enterprises of the shock troops of Hitler. Hevel was convicted of aiding and abetting high treason to one year and three months imprisonment and a fine of 30 gold marks. The sentence was suspended on probation. 1924, the probation was released from custody. In the detention center Landsberg, he was a fellow prisoner of Hitler. On December 30, 1924, he was pardoned.
Career in the Foreign Office and the SS
In February 1938, he became chief of the personal staff of Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. As of June 1938 Hevel Legationsrat was first class. 1938 Hevel was liaison official of the Foreign Office to the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor. Since April 1939 Hevel was Senior Legation Counsellor, from September 28, 1940 Envoy, First Class, from March 1943 Ambassador for special decision of the rank of Secretary. Hevel was born on September 12, 1937 honorary leader of the SS with the rank of SS - Sturmbannführer. In 1938 he was SS - Standartenführer, 1940 SS chief officer, 1942 SS brigade leader. In addition, Hevel was from 1936 East Asia Speaker of the NSDAP / AO, 1937 Keynote speaker for German -British affairs in the department Ribbentrop.
As a liaison officer at Hitler's Headquarters ( FHQ ) Hevel belonged to the immediate vicinity of Hitler. He kept a diary, which was probably written for camouflage to Bahasa Indonesia. As of July 1941, the SA- Standartenführer Werner Koeppen, the parallel role to Hevel took over for the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories FHQ.
Up to 2 May 1945, he was in the Führer bunker and committed suicide presumably on the run to avoid Soviet captivity suicide.
Archival
The " reference files " Hewels are located in the Political Archives of the Foreign Office. In the 70s Alexandre Kum'a Ndumbe III had. Get access to them and uses them in 1980 for his dissertation Hitler voulait l' Afrique.