Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper (13 October 1883 in Schwerin 23 October 1935 in Dessau) was a Nazi politician and a Nazi Gauleiter in the Gau of Magdeburg-Anhalt.First Loeper became an ensign (Fahnenjunker) in Pioneer Battalion 2 in Spandau and then completed training at the Neiße Military School. Already in 1904 he was made a lieutet, and after various other commands, eventually a first lieutet in 1912. Then came his transfer to the Magdeburg Pioneer Battalion 4. Here he took over command of a searchlight platoon.After the First World War broke out, Loeper was then deployed between 1914 and 1918 at the Western Front as a captain and company chief of Pioneer Battalion 19. He was wounded several times. In 1915 he was decorated with the Iron Cross and the Mecklenburg-Schwerin Military Merit Cross (Mecklenburg-Schwerinsches Militärverdienstkreuz), First Class.After the war ended, Loeper became leader of a Freikorps that saw deployment both in the Baltic States and the Ruhr area. In this capacity, he was involved in quelling the Spartakus uprising.