Ernst Turowski

Ernst Turowski , (born October 7, 1906 in Sawadden ( East Prussia ), † October 20, 1986 in Bad Münstereifel ) was a German SS-Sturmbannführer and head of the science department at the Reich Security Main Office .

Life

Ernst Turowski was the son of a farmer. After graduating from high school, he studied history and political science. In 1933 he joined the SA , in 1935 the SS. In 1937 Turowski received his doctorate with a dissertation on the development of Polish Prussia and its status in relation to Poland in the 15th and 16th centuries. Century.

In the SS Turowski rose to SS-Sturmbannführer in 1941. In 1937 he also became a member of the NSDAP (membership number 5.586.583) and was from September 1937 in the security service main office as a full-time employee in Section II / 211 (science) of Department II / 2 (regional analysis) of SS-Untersturmführer Dr. Franz Six busy. After the establishment of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) on September 27, 1939 and the associated combination of the Security Police (= Kripo and Gestapo ) and Security Service (SD) of the SS under the leadership of Reinhard Heydrich , the department with the number 1 under the direction of Turowski became the Office group III C (culture) of the RSHA (office group leader Wilhelm Spengler ) reports.

During the attack on Poland in 1939, Turowski was assigned to a task force like most of the leading RSHA employees .

After resuming his head of department at the RSHA, in September 1943 he was transferred as SD department head to the commander of the Verona Security Police in Italy .

After the war Turowski lived in Iserlohn and Hanover and later became branch manager of a building society in Hanover. Turowski died in 1986 in a senior citizen center in Bad Münstereifel.

literature

Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon on National Socialist Science Policy, Heidelberg 2004, pp. 175–176.
Michael Wildt : Generation of the Unconditional. The leadership corps of the Reich Security Main Office , Hamburger Edition , 2002, ISBN 3-930908-75-1 .

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 622.

personal data
SURNAME	Turowski, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German SS-Sturmbannführer and advisor at the Reich Security Main Office
DATE OF BIRTH	October 7, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sawadden in ( East Prussia )
DATE OF DEATH	October 20, 1986
Place of death	Bad Münstereifel

[Klee622-1] A ^b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 622.