Emil Augsburg

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Emil Augsburg (born May 1, 1904 in Lodz ; † uncertain; probably 1981 ) was a German SD and SS leader and employee of the Federal Intelligence Service .

Life

After completing his school career, Augsburg completed a degree in German, philosophy and history at the University of Leipzig from 1924 to 1932 . During his studies he worked as a translator and interpreter for the languages ​​Russian and Polish from 1929 to 1932. After completing his studies, he took up a position as a publishing editor at the Paul List Verlag in Leipzig in 1932 and later switched to the department for literature processing at the Main Security Office .

From 1935 Augsburg worked on a voluntary basis for the SD until he was employed full-time at the beginning of May 1936. As an expert on the Soviet Union and Poland, he became senior assistant to Professor Michael Achmeteli at the beginning of 1937 , who headed the Russian Institute at the University of Berlin and carried out research on "cultural and national issues in the East". In addition, Augsburg was also employed as a manager at the Wannsee Institute of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), which was established in 1937 and was temporarily under the direction of Michael Achmeteli. At the Wannsee Institute, an SD facility of the RSHA for secret research on the East, he administered a. a. the "Personal File for the Soviet Union".

During the Second World War , Augsburg received his doctorate in 1941 at the Foreign Studies Faculty of the University of Berlin with the dissertation “The state and party political significance of the Soviet press in its historical development”. phil.

After the attack on the Soviet Union , he was a member of the “Moscow Pre-Command” of Einsatzgruppe B , which murdered Jews, partisans and communist functionaries as part of the “fight against opponents”. Augsburg was praised for "extraordinary results [...] in special operations", that is, the mass murder, in its personnel file. He was injured in an airplane attack in Smolensk in September 1941 and returned to the Berlin Wannsee Institute after his recovery. As a member of Office VII (Weltanschauung and evaluation - SD abroad) in the RSHA, he also worked for the Zeppelin company and interrogated Soviet prisoners of war in this context. Augsburg, who was a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 5.518.743), was promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer (SS-number 307.925) in 1944 .

Shortly before the end of the war, Augsburg went into hiding in Ettal Abbey and became the private secretary of a Catholic dignitary working in the Vatican . Both went to the Vatican, where Augsburg, with the help of his supporter, succeeded in joining the Polish armed forces under General Władysław Anders in northern Italy as an intelligence officer . A bogus message was sent to Augsburg via the CIC agent Walter Hirschfeld, allegedly in which Franz Six needed the support of his former employee and asked for a meeting. At the agreed meeting point, Augsburg met Hirschfeld, who pretended to be Six's confidante and gave Augsburg and his comrades allegedly orders signed by Six, which Augsburg and his colleagues also carried out. Augsburg lived in Schorndorf at this time . After more than a year, Augsburg found out about the hoax and Hirschfeld informed him that he had unwittingly done assignments for the CIC.

As a specialist in Soviet affairs, from the end of 1947 he observed emigrant organizations and others for the Gehlen Organization (Org), the forerunner of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND). a. Activities of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists . Augsburg, who had participated in shootings as a member of a task force, worked from 1949 in the general agency L of the Org in Karlsruhe . From 1953 he was employed in the headquarters of the Org in Pullach . After the exposure of the KGB spy Heinz Felfe in November 1961, investigations were carried out against 200 BND employees who had been infected with the Nazis. Since Augsburg threatened to make the investigations public, he was left with the BND in consideration of a possible public scandal. It was not until 1968 that he could be released from the BND because of incorrectly billed operating funds. During his secret service activities, Augsburg used the aliases Althaus and Alberti . His intelligence record was later released from the National Archives in Washington, DC .

Augsburg as a SPIEGEL informant and CIC man

Lutz Hachmeister accuses the Spiegel of 1949 of having given the mass murderers and later CIC agents Klaus Barbie and Augsburg a public platform due to its dominant editorial staffing with SS and SD people

“In the (article) a certain Walter Hirschfeld, a so-called traitor from the ranks of the SS, was to be exposed for having delivered" old comrades "to the knife. There is no doubt that only Barbie and the SD man Emil Augsburg, who was involved in the mass murders in the Soviet Union, in their capacity as CIC agents, were able to access the files that "Spiegel" reported with great care in the Hirschfeld article. "

- Lutz Hachmeister

literature

  • Lutz Hachmeister: Heidegger's will. The philosopher, the 'Spiegel' and the SS. 2nd edition. Propylaen, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-549-07447-3 (p. 132 ff. On the relationship between Klaus Barbie, Emil Augsburg and the "Spiegel").
  • Werner Schroeder: "... a treasure trove of literature information". The Leipzig "Office for Document Processing at the Security Main Office (SD)" and the "SD Liaison Office at the German Library" . In: Monika Gibas , Cornelia Briel, Petra Knöller: "Aryanization" in Leipzig. Approaching a long repressed chapter of the city's history from 1933 to 1945. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-86583-142-2 .
  • Jefferson Adams: Augsburg, Emil. In: Historical dictionary of German intelligence. (= Historical dictionaries of intelligence and counterintelligence. Vol. 11). Scarecrow Press, Plymouth 2009 ISBN 978-0-8108-5543-4 .
  • Michael Wasmund: Emil Augsburg. In: Michael Fahlbusch , Ingo Haar , Alexander Pinwinkler (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Völkischen Wissenschaften. Actors, networks, research programs. With the assistance of David Hamann. 2nd completely revised and expanded edition. Vol. 1, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-042989-3 , pp. 60-61.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 21.
  2. ↑ a b c Werner Schroeder: "... a treasure trove of literature information". The Leipzig "Office for Document Processing at the Security Main Office (SD)" and the "SD Liaison Office at the German Library" . In: Monika Gibas , Cornelia Briel, Petra Knöller: "Aryanization" in Leipzig: Approaching a long-suppressed chapter of the city's history from 1933 to 1945 . Leipzig 2007, p. 120f.
  3. ↑ a b Bernd Stöver : Liberation from Communism: American Liberation Policy in the Cold War 1947–1991 , Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-412-03002-3 , p. 134
  4. ^ Rudolf Augstein : A life for Germany , Munich 2002, ISBN 3-426-27253-9 , p. 269
  5. ^ Jefferson Adams: Augsburg, Emil , in: Historical dictionary of German intelligence. (Historical dictionaries of intelligence and counterintelligence 11) Plymouth: Scarecrow Press 2009 ISBN 978-0-8108-5543-4 , pp. 15f
  6. ↑ a b Werner Schroeder: "... a treasure trove of literature information". The Leipzig "Office for Document Processing at the Security Main Office (SD)" and the "SD Liaison Office at the German Library" . In: Monika Gibas, Cornelia Briel, Petra Knöller: "Aryanization" in Leipzig: Approaching a long-suppressed chapter of the city's history from 1933 to 1945 , Leipzig 2007, p. 146
  7. ↑ Emil Augsburg on www.dws-xip.pl
  8. ↑ Make a note of the name Hirschfeld. The others drank . In: Der Spiegel , issue 53 of December 29, 1949, p. 7f.
  9. ↑ Ulrich Chaussy: My name is: BND ( Memento from June 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Bayerischer Rundfunk 2011, p. 12
  10. ^ Richard Breitman: Historical Analysis of 20 Name Files from CIA Records, April 2001
  11. ↑ in Die Tageszeitung March 12, 2014, p. 11, with reference to publications by Kenneth Alford and Theodore Savas. "Old comrades" means SS men who were involved in murder
personal data
SURNAME Augsburg, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS leader and BND agent
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Lodz
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: 1981