Achim Oster

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Achim Oster's grave in the forest cemetery in Dachau.

Hans Karl Joachim Oster (born February 20, 1914 in Dresden ; † March 2, 1983 in Dachau ) was from May 1950 to 1955 head of the security group in Amt Blank , the forerunner organization of the Military Counter-Intelligence Service (MAD). Later he was an officer in the German Armed Forces , including a military attaché in Spain. He then worked for various NATO offices and most recently as major general in the German armed forces .

Life

Joachim Oster was the son of Hans Oster . After graduating from high school in 1933, Oster joined the Reichswehr as an officer candidate . At the beginning of the Second World War he was adjutant to the artillery commander of Army High Command II. Between 1942 and 1943, Oster was a participant in the general staff course . In 1943 he married Anna Haaser (May 14, 1920 to February 8, 2009), the secretary of the later CSU politician Josef Müller . In the last two years of the war he was deployed in various staffs. Oster was part of the military resistance environment. The father was executed after the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 . In 1945 Joachim Oster was the commander of a Panzer Grenadier regiment . After the capitulation of the Wehrmacht Easter fell in the rank of Major in American captivity .

After the war he worked for a publishing house. Oster then worked for the CSU regional office between 1946 and 1949, and above all in information procurement. As early as 1950, Oster became an employee of the Federal Chancellery . First he worked in the headquarters for homeland service and was head of the information and intelligence service. After that he worked for the Schwerin and Blank Office until 1957 , which dealt with the development of new German armed forces. Oster was tasked with setting up the military intelligence service.

On 24 January 1952, in Liechtenstein the Octogon Trust established. The Octogon Trust was a reptile fund that was fed from weapons sales commissions and was used to finance and condition parties . The registered office was in Schaan (Liechtenstein). In addition to Oster, Rudolf Ruscheweyh and " China-Klein " were in the management of the Octogon Trust. In the summer of 1950, Oster tried unsuccessfully to install the 70-year-old Waldemar Pabst in Bonn. Pabst's “view of the necessity of an offensive fight against Bolshevism” “has not changed since the days in which he took over responsibility for the liquidation of Liebknecht and Luxemburg ,” said Oster's recommendation as to which Pabst should be involved in the arms trade .

After the establishment of the Bundeswehr , Oster became head of division in the Armed Forces Department of the Federal Ministry of Defense with the rank of lieutenant colonel . Afterwards he was battalion commander of the field artillery regiment 2 in the Deines Bruchmüller barracks in Lahnstein . From 1958 Oster was a military attaché at the German embassy in Spain .

During his term of office, Spiegel employee Conrad Ahlers was arrested in Spain. On the orders of Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss , Oster Ahlers had the Spanish police arrested ( Spiegel affair ).

In 1964 Oster returned to the Federal Republic as a colonel and served on the staff of the 12th Panzer Division in Tauberbischofsheim. A short time later he was appointed Brigadier General Assistant Chief of Staff of Military Intelligence at NATO Headquarters in Fontainebleau . In 1968 he became deputy commander of the NATO Defense College . Since 1971, as major general, he was in command of Defense Area IV . in Mainz. In 1973, Oster retired.

While he was still in service, Oster criticized the leadership of the Bundeswehr when they organized a big tattoo in honor of Field Marshal Erich von Manstein . He later advocated a new version of the labor service. As the son of his father, who was executed by the National Socialists, he repeatedly gave the central commemorative speech for the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Archives Achim Oster (1914–1983)
  2. ↑ Peter Reichel: Coming to terms with the past in Germany: The confrontation with the Nazi dictatorship from 1945 to today . Munich, 2001 p. 99 digitized
  3. ^ The CSU 1945–1948: Protocols and materials on the early history of the Christian-social union . Göttingen, 1993. p. 529
  4. ↑ Cannons for teaching . In: Der Spiegel . No. 37 , 1953, pp. 6-7 ( online ).
  5. ↑ The Unfinished . In: Der Spiegel . No. 47 , 1967 ( online ).
  6. ^ Professional - Achim Oster . In: Der Spiegel . No. 39 , 1964, pp. 140 ( online ).
  7. ^ Professional - Achim Oster . In: Der Spiegel . No. 4 , 1966, pp. 90 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Oster, Achim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oster, Hans Karl Joachim (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military and intelligence chief
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1983
Place of death Dachau