Andreas von Amburger
Andreas von Amburger (* 12. February 1906 in St. Petersburg ; † 12. November 1970 in Hamburg ) was a German criminologist and untersturmführer in Einsatzgruppe B .
Life
Amburger was the grandson of Dr. med. Gustav Amburger (1840–1895) and Anna Freiin von Reischach (1840–1924), who brought in the nobility addition "von", and the son of the native Malchin Rudolf Alexander von Amburger (1869–1935) and Elisabeth born. Greve (1871-1927). In 1920 the family had to leave Russia, when they were naturalized in the German Reich in 1922 they were given the name "von Amburger". From 1923 to 1925 Amburger was a member of the Young National Federation and from 1925 of the Stahlhelm, the Bund der Frontsoldaten . In July 1932 he joined the SA and in September 1932 the NSDAP . In 1936 Amburger married the daughter Erica of the Hamburg shipping company director Harm Eilers van Eschen .
In April 1940, Amburger became the head of the murder commission of the criminal investigation department in occupied Warsaw as criminal secretary . From the summer of 1941 he was on the staff of Einsatzgruppe B as a translator and quartermaster for Arthur Nebe . He was scheduled for Moscow as head of the criminal police. According to his own statement, he followed Waldemar Klingelhöfer as leader of the Moscow advance command , special group of the task force. In 1942 he went back to the Hamburg police force.
After 1945 he worked for the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Hamburg , recruited by the department head Richard Gerken . From July 1955 he was employed at the coastal intelligence agency of the BfV in Hamburg.
Testimony reports
- European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI): Activity and situation reports of the Einsatzgruppen of the Security Police and the SD (excerpts), Einsatzgruppe A / Einsatzgruppe B, C, D. Einsatzkdos. - "Ingermanland". Organization, function, tasks of the task force (document book I - III A), witness report (task force B) by Andreas von Amburger. Detention camp for neglected youth in Rshew
- Dan Michman : Fear of the "Eastern Jews": The emergence of the ghettos during the Holocaust , Fischer TB, Frankfurt am Main 2011
literature
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 15 ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 . (Updated 2nd edition)
- Erik Amburger : Germans in the state, economy and society of Russia: the Amburger family in St. Petersburg 1770-1920 , Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1986 (family tree p. 203) ISBN 344702571-9 .
- Constantin Goschler , Michael Wala: “No new Gestapo”. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Nazi past . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2015 ISBN 978-3498024383 .
Single receipts
- ↑ Klaus Wiegrefe : Men of a tough practice . In: Der Spiegel . No. 39 , 2015, p. 54-56 ( online ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Amburger, Andreas von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German detective and member of Einsatzgruppe B |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 12, 1970 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |