6 August 2001(2001-08-06) (aged 90) Barsbüttel, Germany
Awards
Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross German Cross in Gold War Merit Cross
Military service
Allegiance
Nazi Germany
Branch/service
Waffen-SS
Years of service
1931–1945
Rank
SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Waffen-SS
Commands
SS Division Leibstandarte Kampfgruppe Mohnke
Battles/wars
World War II
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Wilhelm Mohnke (15 March 1911 – 6 August 2001) was a German military officer who was one of the original members of the SchutzstaffelSS-Stabswache Berlin (Staff Guard Berlin) formed in March 1933. Mohnke, who had joined the Nazi Party in September 1931, rose through the ranks to become one of Adolf Hitler's last remaining general officers at the end of World War II in Europe.
With the SS Division Leibstandarte, Mohnke participated in the fighting in France, Poland and the Balkans. He was appointed to command a regiment in the SS Division Hitlerjugend in 1943. He led the unit in the Battle for Caen, receiving the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 11 July 1944. Mohnke was given command of his original division, the Leibstandarte, during the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944.
During the Battle of Berlin, Mohnke commanded the Kampfgruppe Mohnke and was charged with defending the Berlin government district, including the Reich Chancellery and the Reichstag.[1] He was investigated after the war for war crimes, including allegations that he was responsible for the killing of prisoners in France in 1940, Normandy in June 1944 and Belgium in December 1944. Although Mohnke served 10 years in Soviet custody, he was never charged with any crimes, and died in 2001, aged 90.
WilhelmMohnke (15 March 1911 – 6 August 2001) was a German military officer who was one of the original members of the Schutzstaffel SS-Stabswache Berlin...
Himmler's SS liaison officer and Eva Braun's brother-in-law. SS-General WilhelmMohnke presided over the tribunal, which included SS-General Johann Rattenhuber...
commander of the central government district was SS-Brigadeführer WilhelmMohnke. Mohnke had been appointed to his position by Hitler and had over 2,000...
SS-Brigadeführer WilhelmMohnke, who presided over the court martial for desertion, told O'Donnell that Hitler ordered him to set up a tribunal. Mohnke arranged...
others still in the bunker complex were led out by SS-Brigadeführer WilhelmMohnke to try and break out of the Soviet encirclement. She and another secretary...
August 1944, and replaced as division commander by SS-Brigadeführer WilhelmMohnke. Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (24 September 1939) & 1st Class (8 November...
number of Nazis for war criminal investigations, including SS General WilhelmMohnke whose wartime activities were subsequently investigated by the British...
of the LSSAH 2nd battalion, under the command of SS-Hauptsturmführer WilhelmMohnke committed the Wormhoudt massacre, where 80 British and French prisoners...
Hewel escaped the Führerbunker in a group led by SS-Brigadeführer WilhelmMohnke. Mohnke planned to break out towards the German Army, which was positioned...
Weidling, commander of the Berlin Defence Area, and SS-Brigadeführer WilhelmMohnke, the (Kommandant) Battle Commander for the centre government district...
Lauterbacher (1st class, with Swords) Josef Mengele (2nd class, with Swords) WilhelmMohnke (2nd class, with Swords) Arthur Nebe (1st class, with Swords) Egon von...
Leibstandarte (LSSAH) as of 15 February 1945, after the division's commander WilhelmMohnke was wounded. As the division commander, Kumm and the LSSAH took part...
brother-in-law. WilhelmMohnke presided over the tribunal which, in addition to Rattenhuber and Mohnke, included Generals Hans Krebs and Wilhelm Burgdorf. However...
bunker complex on 1 May in a break-out group led by SS-Brigadeführer WilhelmMohnke. Evading the Soviet Red Army troops, they made their way north to a...
Berlin on 1 May 1945. She was part of a group led by Brigadeführer WilhelmMohnke which included secretaries Else Krüger and Traudl Junge. The group was...
around the same time. One of its officers was SS Lieutenant Colonel WilhelmMohnke, who had a highly volatile temper and previously ordered the execution...
she had died – from cyanide poisoning. Günsche and SS-Brigadeführer WilhelmMohnke stated "unequivocally" that all outsiders and those performing duties...
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