Name Gustav von | Died May 4, 1945 | |
Gustav Adolf von Wulffen (born 18 April 1878 in Gotha, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha – died 4 May 1945) was a German general and Nazi.
Wulffen served as an officer in the German Imperial Army during First World War. On 21 April 1918 he was awarded the Pour le Mérite.
After the war he worked as a salesman and became involved in right-wing politics by joining the Hamburger Nationalklub, a Hamburg-based group for rightist businessmen. Around this time he also took out membership in the Sturmabteilung and the Nazi Party. In June 1933 he was one of only three men hired by the newly established Office of the Deputy Führer. Here he held the rank of Politischer Leiter, a functionary in the Nazi Party, a rank also held by his co-workers Martin Bormann and Alfred Leitgen.
Later switching to the Schutzstaffel he transferred to the staff of the Reichsführer-SS and eventually obtained the Brigadeführer in that organisation. Called up to the Wehrmacht as a Generalmajor towards the end of the Second World War he died after being wounded in action.