Correctly: Walther Schellenberg, full name Walther Friedrich Schellenberg (January 16, 1910 - March 31, 1952) was a German Nazi and second-in-command of the Gestapo. January 16 is the 16th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1910 in topic: Arts Architecture- Art- Film- Literature- Music- Television Science and technology Aviation- Rail transport- Science Other topics Australia- Canada- Ireland- South Africa- Sport Births- Deaths Lists of leaders: State leaders - Religious leaders 1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... March 31 is the 90th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (91st in Leap years), with 275 days remaining, as the final day of March. ... 1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Nazi party used a right-facing swastika as their symbol and the red and black colors were said to represent Blut und Boden (blood and soil). ... The Gestapo was the official secret police force of Nazi Germany. ...

Walther Schellenberg was born in Saarbrücken, Germany. When France occupied Saarland after the First World War, his family moved to Luxembourg because of the economic crisis in the Weimar republic. Map of Germany showing Saarbrücken Saarbrücken [ˈzaːɐ̯ˈbrʏknÌ©] is the capital of the Saarland Bundesland in Germany. ... Saarland is one of the 16 States of Germany. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ...

Schellenberg enrolled in the University of Marburg, and then in the University of Bonn in 1929 to study medicine, but soon after he decided to study law. When he graduated, he joined the SS in May 1933 and worked in counter-intelligence. He became acquainted with Reinhard Heydrich and from 1939 to 1942 was a deputy leader of the Reich Central Security Office and Heinrich Himmler's personal aide. The main building, viewed from the Hofgarten. ... SS or ss or Ss may be: The Schutzstaffel, a Nazi paramilitary force Steamship (SS) (ship prefix) The United States Secret Service A submarine not powered by nuclear energy (SS) (United States Navy designator), see SSN A Soviet/Russian surface-to-surface missile, as listed by NATO reporting name Shortstop... Counter Intelligence A uk label started and owned by John Machielsen. ... Reinhard Heydrich Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (sometimes incorrectly spelled as Reinhardt, March 7, 1904 – June 4, 1942) was an Obergruppenführer in the Nazi German paramilitary corps—the SS led by Heinrich Himmler. ... Heinrich Himmler Heinrich Himmler (October 7, 1900 – May 23, 1945) was the commander of the German Schutzstaffel (SS) and one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany. ...

In November 1939 Schellenberg played a major part in the Venlo Incident, which lead to the capture of two British agents, major Best and captain Stefens. In 1940 he was charged to compile a list of 2300 prominent Britons that would have been arrested after a successful conquest of Britain. He also arranged many other plots of subterfuge and intelligence gathering, including bugging a Berlin brothel. The Venlo Incident in 1939 was a Gestapo-engineered capture of two British SIS agents in the early months of World War II, on November 9, 1939. ... Operation Sealion (Unternehmen Seelöwe in German) was a World War II German plan to invade Britain. ...

Also in 1940 he was sent to Portugal to capture the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and try to persuade them to work for Germany. The mission was a failure; Schellenberg managed only to delay their baggage for a few hours. Bessiewallis Warfield (June 19, 1896–April 24, 1986), better known as Wallis Simpson and later as The Duchess of Windsor, was a mistress, and later wife, of the former King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom. ...

Schellenberg served as major general (Brigadeführer) in the Waffen-SS and held a high post in political secret service. He also led the hunt of the Soviet spy ring Red Orchestra. According to his memoirs, he was a friend of Wilhelm Canaris, whom he replaced in 1944, when he became head of Combined Secret Services, with the Abwehr being disbanded. Waffen-SS recruitment poster; Volunteer to the Waffen-SS The Waffen-SS was the armed wing of the Schutzstaffel. ... The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) (Russian: (СССР)   listen?; tr. ... The Red Orchestra was a Soviet espionage ring in Nazi-occupied Europe during the first years of World War II. The name reputedly came from their German enemies; German counter-intelligence learned that the Moscow NKVD centre referred to their spies radio transmitters as music boxes and called their agents... Wilhelm Canaris Wilhelm Franz Canaris (January 1, 1887 – April 9, 1945) was head of the German military intelligence service, the Abwehr, for much of World War II. He was born in Aplerbeck, in Westphalia. ... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Abwehr was the common name for the German military foreign information and counterintelligence department, during both World War I and World War II. Abwehr is a German word, which is commonly translated to the English defence. The head of the Abwehr during World War II was Admiral Wilhelm Canaris. ...

At the end of the war Schellenberg persuaded Himmler to contact Western Allies through Count Folke Bernadotte and went personally to Stockholm in April 1945 to arrange their meeting. He was in Denmark attempting to arrange his own surrender when Allied troops arrested him in June 1945. The Western Allies was the alliance of democracies in World War II - in other words, the combined Allies minus the Soviet Union. ... Count Folke Bernadotte af Wisborg (January 2, 1895 - September 17, 1948), is noted for his negotiation for the release of prisoners from the German concentration camps in World War II. He was the son of Oscar Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (formerly Prince Oscar of Sweden) and his wife, née...   Stockholm? is the capital and the largest city in Sweden. ...

In the Nuremberg Trials, Schellenberg testified against other nazis and in 1949 was sentenced to only six years imprisonment in the Ministries Trial. In prison he wrote his memoirs, The Labyrinth. He was released in 1951 due to worsening liver condition and moved to Switzerland, and then to Pallanza, Italy. The Nuremberg Trials is the general name for two sets of trials of Nazis involved in World War II and the Holocaust. ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... Telford Taylor delivers the prosecutions opening statement. ...

Schellenberg saw himself as one of the great spymasters of the era and failed to notice that, for instance, most German spies in Britain had been detected and either executed or turned to work for the British security services.

Walther Schellenberg died of cancer in Turin, Italy. Location Region Piedmont Province Turin Area   – Total   – Water 130 km² (50 mi²) ##.# km² (#.# mi²) #.##% Population   – Total (2002)   – Density 857,433 6,596/km² Time zone CET: UTC+1 Latitude Longitude   45°04′ N 7°40′ E1. ...

Books:

• Louis Hagen & Andre Deutsch - The Schellenberg Memoirs (1956)