Albrecht Focke
Albrecht Focke was a German officer.
Focke was a member of the Prussian army from 1914 to 1920, where he served in the artillery. He then switched to private industry, where he was given a management position in a factory for freight vehicles.
In the 1930s, Focke was recruited by the defense of the Reichswehr. Due to his business experience, he first became economic advisor at the defense branch in Cologne . During the Second World War, Focke was then a secret service officer in the Wehrmacht High Command from 1942 to 1945 as the castle commander at Lauenstein Castle , where the former head of the secret service Wilhelm Canaris was also in honorary custody from February to June 1944 . From 1944 he was also a lieutenant colonel in Section VI-Wi of the RSHA. Together with the executive board of IG Farben , Focke moved millions abroad.
After the war he appeared as a witness at the Nuremberg trials .
literature
- Henry Hatt: Ignored Hitler's Secret Objects , 1995.
- Henry Hatt: The Art Collection of Abwehr Officer Albrecht Focke , 2011.
- David Kahn: Hitler's Spies. German military intelligence in World War II , 1985.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Focke, Albrecht |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German officer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 19th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century |