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Wilhelm Gideon (born 15 November 1898 in Oldenburg - died after 1975) was a German Schutzstaffel officer and Nazi concentration camp commandant. A native of Oldenburg, Gideon began work as a trainee engineer but had his studied ended by the outbreak of World War I when he volunteered for service in the German Imperial Army.〔Tom Segev, ''Soldiers of Evil'', Berkley Books, 1991, p. 68〕 Gideon enlisted in the SS in 1933 (as member number 88,657) and the Nazi Party itself in 1937 (member 4,432,258).〔(Wilhelm Gideon )〕 He had a varied career in the SS, initially being stationed with the 9th SS-Reiterstandarte (cavalry) from 1934 to 1939. Following this he was moved to the 3rd SS Division Totenkopf until 1942 following which he was briefly attached to the SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt and then served for a short spell at Neuengamme concentration camp and as administrator of the 88th SS-Standarte in Hamburg.〔 Gideon had been identified by Oswald Pohl as a reliable SS officer and was promoted to Hauptsturmführer by the concentration camp chief.〔Michael Thad Allen, ''The Business of Genocide: the SS, Slave Labor, and the Concentration Camps'', University of North Carolina Press, 2002〕 He was appointed commandant of Gross-Rosen concentration camp on 16 September 1942 in succession to Arthur Rödl and held the post until 10 October 1943 when Johannes Hassebroek succeeded him.〔Belah Guṭerman, ''A Narrow Bridge to Life: Jewish Forced Labor and Survival in the Gross-Rosen Camp System, 1940-1945'', Berghahn Books, 2008, p. 75〕 His final post was on staff of the SS and Police Leader in occupied Denmark until the surrender in 1945.〔 Gideon was last known to be alive in 1975 when Israeli historian Tom Segev interviewed him for his book ''Soldiers of Evil'', a study of the concentration camp commandants. However, after initially co-operating Gideon terminated the interview when he suddenly claimed that he was a different person who happened to be named Wilhelm Gideon rather than the former commandant of Gross-Rosen.〔Segev, ''Soldiers of Evil''. p. 219〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wilhelm Gideon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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