Ebrulf Zuber

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Ebrulf Zuber (born March 28, 1920 in Petersburg , Czechoslovakia ; † 2005 ) was a German officer in the Waffen SS , an employee of the Gehlen organization and later the first director of the Federal Intelligence Service .

Life

Childhood and youth

Zuber was the son of a German land manager . In 1939 he graduated from high school in Karlsbad . Zuber was active in national associations and became a functionary of the Hitler Youth as a result of the Sudetenland, which was incorporated into the National Socialist German Reich after the Munich Agreement . In addition to his membership in the SS since 1938 (SS No. 376.935), Zuber also became a member of the NSDAP (Member No. 6.435.101) in the same year .

Armed SS

During the Second World War he was a member of the 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (Waffen-SS) from 1940 . In this context he had attended the SS Junk School in Braunschweig and became a trainer. After an accident, a hospital stay followed in 1941. Then he was employed at the Germanic control center of the SS main office to recruit Belgians and Dutch for the Waffen SS. In 1942 he went to Berlin as a consultant in the SS main office (Amt IV). At the end of 1943 he was briefly employed in the SS main office in the military substitute department. He was later employed by the Nordland Panzer Grenadier Division . Towards the end of the war he was company commander of a Panzer Corps of the Waffen SS. From October 1944 he was adjutant to General Felix Steiner and from the end of 1944 on the Eastern Front and most recently during the Battle of Berlin . In 1943 he was promoted to SS-Obersturmführer .

Organization Gehlen and BND

After the war he was taken prisoner by the Soviets and in September 1946 came to the American occupation zone , where he was also interned. After his release from internment there he belonged to the Gehlen organization from 1947 and, among other things, initially worked for the procurement department. By working for the OG, he avoided denazification proceedings . The OU 85 recommended its retention without conditions later. In the 1960s his ascent began within the BND , including as a sub-department head of the GDR . From 1963 he headed the operational security department. In 1970 Zuber became the first director of the BND. Zuber retired at the end of March 1985.

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  1. ↑ a b c d Jost Dülfer (ed.): " Independent historians' commission for researching the history of the Federal Intelligence Service 1945 - 1968 ", In: The history of the organization Gehlen and the BND 1945-1968: Outlines and insights. Documentation of the conference on December 2, 2013, Marburg 2014.
  2. ↑ a b c Sabrina Nowack: Security risk NS exposure. Personnel reviews in the Federal Intelligence Service in the 1960s , Berlin 2016, p. 169
  3. ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 698.
  4. ↑ a b Sabrina Nowack: Security risk NS exposure. Personnel reviews in the Federal Intelligence Service in the 1960s , Berlin 2016, p. 486
  5. ↑ a b c d FOIA Research: https://www.foiaresearch.net/person/ebrulf-zuber Personal data zu Zuber (Engl.)
  6. ^ Research Institute for Peace Policy http://www.geheimdienste.info/texte/DasGespenstEinesZweitFelfe.htm Review by Erich Schmidt-Eenboom on volume 4 of the results of the UHK-BND
personal data
SURNAME Zuber, Ebrulf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer of the Waffen SS, employee of the Gehlen organization and later first director of the Federal Intelligence Service
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Petersburg , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH 2005