Erich Lipik

Erich Hermann Richard Lipik (born July 3, 1897 in Berlin , † after 1944) was a German police officer.

Live and act

Lipik was a son of the policeman Christian Lipik and his wife Ida, geb. Hundsdörfer. Lipik entered the police force after the First World War . In the mid-1920s, he was a detective at the Berlin Police Headquarters (Department K). In 1927 he was involved in investigating the murder of Elisabeth Stangierski .

In the spring of 1933, Lipik was transferred to Department IA of the Berlin Police Headquarters and from there to the then newly established Secret State Police Office (Gestapa). At the instigation of Kurt Daluege , he was entrusted with special tasks on various occasions , for example with the "investigation" of the death of SA member Hans Maikowski who was shot on the evening of January 30, 1933 , the real background of which - Maikowski was from another SA member was shot - he had to disguise in the course of his investigation in the interests of party and state in favor of the official version - Maikowski had been murdered by communists.

In January 1934, Lipik was the field service leader of Movement Department III of the Gestapo under Arthur Nebe . He was later transferred to Department III (Defense Department) under Günther Patschowsky . His last record in the Gestapo was at the end of 1935. He later came to the Berlin Stapo control center, where he was promoted to detective director in 1945.

Lipik had been a member of the NSDAP since May 1, 1933 ( membership number 3,474,552) and a member of the SA since 1934 . He later switched from the SA to the SS (SS No. 50.039), in which he achieved the rank of Sturmbannführer in 1945 .

literature

• Christoph Graf : Political police between democracy and dictatorship. Berlin 1983.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hsi-Huey Liang: The Berlin Police in the Weimar Republic . P. 151