Wilhelm Ritterbusch | |
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![]() Ritterbusch in 1943 | |
Birth name | Wilhelm (Willi) Friedrich Adolf Ritterbusch |
Born | Werdau, German Empire | 3 July 1892
Died | 1981 (aged 88) Skelund, Denmark |
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Years of service | 1914–1918 1939–1945 |
Rank | Gauleiter |
Battles/wars | World War I World War II |
Wilhelm (Willi) Friedrich Adolf Ritterbusch (3 July 1892, in Werdau, Germany – 10 April 1981, in Skelund, Denmark),[1] was a Nazi Party political functionary. Among other positions, he was the German Generalkommissar zur Besonderen Verwendung ("Commissioner-General for Special Duties"), directing the political affairs and propaganda in the occupied Netherlands from the middle of July 1943 until 7 May 1945, the end of World War II.