Franz Göring (SS member)

Franz Göring (born January 13, 1908 in Schneidemühl ; † unknown, after 1959) worked as SS-Obersturmbannführer in Department VI-Economy T 2 in the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) and after the war worked for the organization Gehlen (OG) and in Federal Intelligence Service .

SA and Gestapo

On November 20, 1931, Göring became a member of the SA . His entry into the NSDAP ( membership number 938.997) took place on January 27, 1932. The rise to the SA driver's cab and the so-called "Führer swearing-in" on Adolf Hitler took place on March 5, 1933 as a member of SA Storm 60 in Erfurt .

From August 30 to September 3, 1933, he took in Nuremberg at the Nazi Party part of the Nazi Party. He completed a course at the SA Driving School I in April and May 1934 in Sondershausen in Thuringia .

Göring entered the police service a little later and became a member of the Gestapo , where he later worked as a detective inspector in Schneidemühl after appropriate training . In this position he had a close relationship with the head of the SD branch Ernst-Jochen Schwarzwäller in Schneidemühl, with whom he maintained friendly contacts.

Reich Security Main Office

He was promoted to SA-Obersturmführer on April 20, 1936, after which he was subsequently transferred to the SS in the same year (SS No. 309.171). He then moved to the SD main office in the RSHA as SS-Obersturmführer . Here he was under the SS-Standartenführer Prof. Dr. Robert Schmied was employed in the SD Office VI-WI (Economics) in Department T 2. There he also worked as a liaison to Reich Minister Hjalmar Schacht . In 1942 he was promoted to head of department.

In the final phase of World War II , SS Brigade Leader Walter Schellenberg assigned him special tasks. At the end of 1944 he was the Gestapo liaison officer for the transfer of Scandinavian prisoners to their homeland via the Neuengamme concentration camp in the so-called White Buses rescue operation . On February 5, 1945, he was the escort of a train with 1200 prisoners from the Theresienstadt concentration camp to the Swiss border, which was carried out on an initiative by Heinrich Himmler . When Hitler found out about this transport, he immediately forbade any further evacuation from the concentration camps.

After 1945

After the end of the war, Göring first worked as a sales representative and then joined the Gehlen Organization (OG). In Hamburg it belonged to the TON office in Stellbergerstrasse. 45 at. His main job was to look after agents in the People's Republic of Poland . In this activity he went under the code names Wilhelm Thorwald , Dr. Walther , Wilhelm Tobias , Ernst Walther , Helmut Fricke and Claus Thomas . He was registered in Hamburg 33 at Starstrasse 45.

Federal Intelligence Service and MfS of the GDR

When the BND emerged from the OG on April 1, 1956, Göring was also taken over, who then took over the management of the office in Hamburg in 1958. At the end of 1957 he was visited by his old acquaintance Ernst Schwarzwäller, former SS-Untersturmführer and SD branch manager in Schneidemühl, who had worked as the secret main informator (GHI) of the GDR Ministry for State Security (MfS) since 1954 . Schwarzwäller immediately renewed the old friendship with Goering and won his trust. In Goering's absence, Schwarzwäller was able to inspect and steal secret BND documents. Among them were u. a. Information on the recruitment of a Polish officer by the BND.

In 1959, Schwärzwäller had to move to the GDR because he was being watched by the BND. The drop-off maneuver was named Aktion Herrmann . On April 4, 1959, Schwarzwäller visited Göring again under a pretext in his private apartment in Hamburg. On this occasion he stole all available files and a steel box and drove them to the GDR. He left a letter in which he offered to return all documents to Goering after a thorough discussion . Goering immediately saw through the MfS's recruiting maneuver. In the summer of 1959, Schwarzwäller appeared at a press conference of the GDR press office, introduced himself as a defector and said u. a .: "Today I am very grateful to Mr. Göring for giving me the opportunity to bring the documents in his office as evidence of my honest will to help the German people". Julius Mader published some of the stolen documents in his 1960 book The Gray Hand .

In the BND's personal file, which exists as a microform , the last processing note is dated August 5, 1976. No date or place of death is noted.

literature

Julius Mader : The gray hand - a settlement with the Bonn secret service . Berlin 1960.
Julius Mader: The Bandit Treasure - A documentary report on Hitler's secret gold and weapons treasure . Berlin 1966.
Richard Breitman, Norman JW Goda, Timothy Naftali, Robert Wolfe: US Intelligence and the Nazis . New York 2005.
Henry Leide: Nazi Criminals and State Security - The Secret Past of the GDR . Göttingen 2006.

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personal data
SURNAME	Goering, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German SS-Obersturmbannführer in the Reich Security Main Office
DATE OF BIRTH	January 13, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schneidemühl
DATE OF DEATH	20th century or 21st century