Erich Schröder (police officer)

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Erich Schröder as a witness at the Nuremberg trials.

Erich Schröder (born March 12, 1903 , † after 1945) was a German police officer.

Live and act

After attending school, Schröder was trained at the Clausthal mining academy, which he left as a qualified mining engineer. Since he could not find a job in the profession he had learned, he applied to the criminal police in 1929.

In the 1930s Schröder was taken over by the Secret State Police and became a member of the NSDAP (membership number 2.731.701). In the main office of the security police, he had been working as a detective commissioner in Section 2 A under Reinhold Heller since 1936 at the latest . Around 1938 he took over the management of Section II A 3 (“Observation of Soviet Russians and Treatment of Anti-State Foreigners”) as a criminal adviser, in which he was responsible as a communism expert for observing Soviet citizens in Germany as well as for Russian and Yugoslav emigrants.

After the establishment of the Reich Security Main Office , Schröder took over as Kriminalrat (later Kriminaldirektor) in Division IV D 3 (“Confidential Centers, Foreigners Hostile to the State”), which he led until the summer of 1941. At this time he was replaced by Geisler and as head of the Security Service of the SS (SD) in Portugal to the German embassy in Lisbon displaced, where he officially exercised the place of a police liaison officer, in which he said the German police attache in Madrid, Paul Winzer assumed was, but was practically entrusted mainly with the management of the SS intelligence service in Portugal. In the SS (membership number 80.114) Schröder achieved at least the rank of Sturmbannführer .

At the end of the Second World War , Schröder was taken prisoner by the Allies. In the following years he was questioned as a witness during the Nuremberg Trials .

Promotions

  • April 20, 1938: SS Untersturmführer
  • April 20, 1939: SS-Obersturmführer
  • July 1, 1941: SS-Sturmbannführer

literature

  • Michael Wildt: Generation of the Unconditional. The leadership corps of the Reich Security Main Office. Hamburger Edition, Hamburg 2002.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Patrik von zur Mühlen: Escape route Spain-Portugal. German Emigration and the Exodus from Europe 1933–1945 , 1992, p. 137.
  2. ↑ List of witnesses at the Nuremberg trials (PDF; 186 kB).
personal data
SURNAME Schröder, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German police officer
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1903
DATE OF DEATH after 1945