Willfried Segebrecht

Willfried Segebrecht (20 December 1919– 8 January 1993) SS-Hauptsturmführer commander 1st company SS-Panzer-Aufklärungs-Abteilung 16 Panzergrenadier Division "Reichsführer SS".Im gleichen Schritt und Tritt” Dokumentation der 16. SS Panzergrenadierdivision „Reichsführer-SS” s.775, ISBN 3880141142
==Early life==
Willfried Segebrecht was born on 20 Dec. 1919 in Anklam, Pomerania. Im gleichen Schritt und Tritt” Dokumentation der 16. SS Panzergrenadierdivision „Reichsführer-SS” s.405, ISBN 3880141142
Segebrecht attended his town’s humanistic gymnasium, graduating in April 1939. Was a member of the Deutsches Jungvolk from 1934 until 1939. He participated in the Nuremberg Rallies and then joined the Nazi Party.
==SS career==
On 1 October 1939, he joined the Waffen-SS. After attending the SS Junker School in Braunschweig between May and September 1941, he was transferred to SS Mountain Division "Nord" in Norway and Finland. He was promoted to SS-Untersturmführer on 1 October 1941. 
For six months he was a member of his division’s replacement unit, active as a trainer. Between August 1942 and 1 June 1943, he served in the Reconnaissance Battalion of the SS "Totenkopf" Division. Later, he participated in further courses in Ellwangen, in the school for armoured command at Krampnitz near 
Potsdam, and in Putlos (Holstein). He was promoted to SS-Obersturmführer on 20 April 1944. On 1 July 1944, he was awarded the Iron Cross first class.Im gleichen Schritt und Tritt” Dokumentation der 16. SS Panzergrenadierdivision „Reichsführer-SS” s.332 ISBN 3880141142
In 1944 SS-Obersturmführer Willfried Segebrecht led the 1st Company of the Reconnaissance battalion 16. SS-Panzergrenadier-Division "Reichsführer SS"."Vom Plattensee bis zur Mur: Die Kämpfe 1945 im Dreiländereck" - Josef Paul Puntigam, S 204
==Massacre==
The massacres in Vinca"La strage nazifascista di Vinca: 24 agosto 1944 - Leonardi Luigi s.122, ISBN 9788842551584https://www.ns-taeter-italien.org/en/massacres/vinca Vinca massacres and in the area of Cadotto near Monte Sole are attributed, among others, to his men 1st company SS-Panzer-Aufklärungs-Abteilung 16.Panzergrenadier Division "Reichsführer-SS" "Piekło Italii, Kampania włoska od Monte Casino do kapitulacji" James Holand s.327, ISBN 9788324130764 Segebrecht’s men suffered heavy losses fighting partisans of the "Stella Rossa" group. The massacre at Monte Sole is the worst war crime perpetrated by German troops on Italian soil and one of the worst on the western front.https://www.ns-taeter-italien.org/en/massacres/monte-sole Monte Sole The massacre is called the Marzabotto massacre.
One SS soldier, testified that he saw SS-Obersturmführer Willfried Segebrecht give the order to shoot about 30 civilians, on the first day of the Cadotto massacre.Carlo Gentile: Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS im Partisanenkrieg: Italien 1943–1945. Schöningh, Paderborn 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-76520-8. S 242
Willfried Segebrecht was awarded the Close Combat Clasp on 20 April 1945 and promoted to SS-Hauptsturmführer on 1 May 1945.Im gleichen Schritt und Tritt” Dokumentation der 16. SS Panzergrenadierdivision „Reichsführer-SS” ISBN 3880141142, s.332
==POW camp==
Willfried Segebrecht was taken prisoner on 8 May 1945 in Austria. Initially he was interned in the Bad Aibling POW camp, then moved to Dachau, and finally to a civilian internment camp from where he was released on 14 Oct. 1946. He died on 8 Jan. 1993 in Kirchheim, aged 72.
Category:1919 births
Category:1993 deaths
Category:People from Anklam
Category:German people