Otto Hellwig

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Otto Hellwig (24 February 1898, Nordhausen – 20 August 1962, Hanover) was a German SS-Gruppenführer (1944) and lieutenant general of police (1944), as well as an SS and Police Leader. Hellwig participated in the First World War as a soldier. After the war, he joined the Sturmabteilung Roßbach, a paramilitary organization of the Weimar Republic that was unrelated to the commonly known paramilitary Sturmabteilung (SA). He worked as a policeman and was in the Prussian Schutzpolizei. From the late 1920s, he worked for the police administration in Bielefeld in the district of Minden, and was promoted to police captain in the early 1930s. From 1934, he was the commander of the Lippe Landespolizei. Hellwig joined the Nazi Party (NSDAP membership number 2,155,531) in April 1933 and the Schutzstaffel (SS membership number 272,289) in July 1935. From 1935 to 1937, he was head of the Gestapo in Breslau. Thereafter, he was commander of the Führerschule of the Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo) and the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), an institution that trained future leaders of the SS, SD, and SiPo, in Berlin-Charlottenburg until March 1941. Hellwig was the instructor and commander of one of the Einsatzkommandos of the Einsatzgruppe under Udo von Woyrsch, which prepared the Gleiwitz incident as part of Operation Tannenberg before the Invasion of Poland in 1939.