Franz Riedweg

Franz Riedweg (10 April 1907 in Lucerne – 22 January 2005 in Munich) was a Swiss national who, during World War II, served in the Waffen-SS as well as becoming a close associate of Heinrich Himmler. In 1941, Riedweg was named as head of the Germanische SS Schweiz with SS hopes to expand influence into Switzerland under the same model as the Germanic-SS in other countries.

Riedweg himself spent most of the war in Germany with only a few hundred Swiss SS personnel ever formally recruited. In December 1947, Riedweg was sentenced in absentia by the Swiss Federal Criminal Court to 16 years in prison for treason.

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Profile of Franz Riedweg

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