Wilhelm Dreher

Wilhelm Dreher (10 January 1892 in Ay an der Iller, Neu-Ulm district – 19 November 1969 in Senden) was a German politician with the Nazi Party.

The son of an office assistant, he attended elementary school in Stuttgart, where he subsequently completed an apprenticeship as a toolmaker between 1906 and 1909. During his travels, Dreher worked in Switzerland, among other places.

In 1910, Dreher joined the Imperial German Navy , where he spent two and a half years in the East Asia Squadron and then went to the torpedo school . During World War I, Dreher was deployed almost continuously on front-line boats. In 1918, he took part in the Kiel mutiny. In the same year, he was discharged from the Navy and joined the SPD . In 1919, he married and had one child.

Dreher was a member of the Reichstag, first being elected in 1928 and retaining his seat until the defeat of Nazi Germany.[1] In the early 1930s, he was close to Gregor Strasser for a time.[2] He was recognised within the Nazi Party as an economics specialist and he wrote on this topic for Völkischer Beobachter.[3] In 1933, he became the Polizeidirektor in Ulm and an Oberführer in the SS.[4]

  1. ^ Datenbank der deutschen Parlamentsabgeordneten
  2. ^ Barbara Miller Lane, Leila J. Rupp, Nazi Ideology Before 1933: A Documentation, Manchester University Press ND, 1978, p. 164
  3. ^ Detlef Mühlberger, Hitler's Voice: The Völkischer Beobachter, 1920-1933. Organisation & Development of the Nazi Party, Volume 1, Peter Lang, 2004, p. 120
  4. ^ Männer im Dritten Reich. Bremen: Rosma. 1934. p. 57.