Ernst Schambacher
Ernst Schambacher (* 1899 in Berlin ; † May 18, 1945 in Hauska , Czechoslovakia ) was a German lawyer and police officer. In the National Socialist German Reich he worked as a criminal director and division head IV E 4 (Defense North) of Office IV ( Gestapo ) in the Reich Security Main Office .
Life
Schambacher was born in Berlin in 1899 . He passed the Abitur in 1917 and then took part in the First World War as a soldier for another year . In 1918 he suffered from war gas poisoning .
His subsequent study of law he graduated in 1925 with the promotion of Dr. jur. at the University of Königsberg . He found a job as a trainee detective at the Berlin police headquarters and was taken on as a detective in 1928 after three years of training.
In 1934 he switched to the Gestapo when it was taken over by Reinhard Heydrich . So he came to the Gestapa as Head of Department for Western Europe and West Germany. After the formation of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) on October 1, 1939, he headed Division IV E 4 (Defense North) until mid-1941. Then Schambacher was employed in Office VI (SD-Auslands) of the RSHA.
When at the beginning of June 1940 the RSHA set up a special evaluation commission for the support of the Einsatzkommandos (EK) Netherlands under SS-Standartenführer and Colonel of the Police Hans Nockemann in Münster to interrogate the persons arrested by the EK and to evaluate the confiscated material, Schambacher became its head instructed.
According to his wife's testimony, he died on May 18, 1945 in Hauska, Sudetenland. A second version says that he committed suicide in May 1945 while fleeing from Berlin to his sister-in-law in Bremen . This version is supported by the testimony of his wife shortly after arriving in Bremen.
literature
- Michael Wildt : Generation of the Unconditional. The leadership corps of the Reich Security Main Office. Hamburger Edition , 2002, ISBN 3-930908-75-1
- Franz von Schmidt: Demonstrated appears. Experienced criminalistics. Stuttgart house library, Stuttgart 1955
- Franz von Schmidt: Murder in the Twilight. Experienced criminal history. Verlag Deutsche Volksbücher, Stuttgart 1961
Web links
- Literature by and about Ernst Schambacher in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schambacher, Ernst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer and policeman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 18, 1945 |
| Place of death | Houska , Czechoslovakia |