Max Ernst Gustav Friedrich Wielen (born March 3, 1883) was the Kripo police chief at Breslau. He was sentenced to life imprisonment by the War Trials Commission but served only a few years of his sentence and was released October 24, 1952. [1]. Wielen is significant in that he was directly implicated in the Stalag Luft III murders, in which members of the RAF who were involved in the "Great Escape" were killed.