Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff

Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff
Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldorff
Berlin Police Chief
In office
19 July 1935 – 24 July 1944
Preceded byMagnus von Levetzow
Succeeded byKurt Göhrum
Potsdam Police President
In office
25 March 1933 – 18 July 1935
Succeeded byWilhelm Ernst Graf von Wedel
Member of the Reichstag
In office
12 November 1933 – 10 August 1944
Personal details
Born(1896-10-14)14 October 1896
Merseburg, Province of Saxony, Prussia, German Empire
Died15 August 1944(1944-08-15) (aged 47)
Plötzensee Prison, Berlin, Nazi Germany
Cause of deathExecution by hanging
Political partyNSFB (1924–1925)
NSDAP (1925–1944)
Military service
Allegiance German Empire
Branch/service Imperial German Army
Years of service1914–1919
RankLeutnant
UnitHussar Regiment 12
Battles/warsWorld War I
AwardsIron Cross, first and second class

Wolf-Heinrich Julius Otto Bernhard Fritz Hermann Ferdinand Graf von Helldorff (14 October 1896 – 15 August 1944) was an SA-Obergruppenführer, German police official and politician. He served as a member of the Landtag of Prussia during the Weimar Republic, as a member of the Reichstag for the Nazi Party from 1933, and as Ordnungspolizei Police President in Potsdam and in Berlin. From 1938 he became involved with the anti-Nazi resistance, and was executed in 1944 for his role in the 20th July plot to overthrow Adolf Hitler's regime.


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