Friedrich Buchardt

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Friedrich Buchardt (between 1933 and 1945)

Friedrich Buchardt (born March 17, 1909 in Riga ; † December 21, 1982 in Nussbach (Palatinate) ) was a German-Baltic doctorate in law and an SS leader. He was the commander of the " Vorkommando Moscow ", the later Sonderkommando 7c, one of the departments of the Einsatzgruppen B , then of the Sonderkommando 6 and employee of the Reich Main Security Office , Dept. Foreign Army East. After the war he worked for MI6 until 1947 , then for the CIA , avoiding prosecution.

Early years and studies

Buchardt came from traditional pharmacist families: his father, the pharmacist Theodor Friedrich Buchardt (1839–1906), ran the third oldest, so-called Kalkstrasse pharmacy in Riga, which was founded in the 17th century. His mother, Leontine Weiss, was the daughter of the former owner of the Kalkstrasse pharmacy, the pharmacist Gustav Friedrich Weiss.

Buchardt studied law in Berlin and at the University of Jena and was there in 1932 because of his dissertation "The right of national minorities in Latvia in its international, constitutional and administrative law meaning" doctorate .

Career in the SS

As early as the 1920s, he committed himself to National Socialism out of conviction. He was a member of the NSDAP (membership number 7.675.607).

He came to the Gotenhafen (Gdynia) central office for immigrants in November 1939 and then worked in Poznan and Constana .

In March 1940 he became Head of Division III ( SD ) at the Commander of the Security Police and the SD in Lublin . In January 1943, Buchardt was appointed as the successor to Obersturmbannführer Wilhelm Wiebens as leader of the Einsatzkommando 9 (operational area Belarus ). He held this post until March 1944. During this time he was promoted to SS-Obersturmbannführer.

He witnessed the extermination of the Jews and knew about deportations and hostage shootings. He participated in "mass evacuations" in the Vitebsk area.

Reich Security Main Office

Together with Erhard Kroeger as leader of the Einsatzkommando 6, he succeeded in creating and filling the key positions for the realization of the " Russian Liberation Army ": Kröger as head of the "Control Center Russia" in the SS main office, office group D, he himself in 1944 as head of the Referates II B 2 "Foreign peoples east this side of the HKL" of the Office II (domestic intelligence service) and the "Sonderkommando Ost" in the Reich Security Main Office .

post war period

Intelligence links to avoid criminal prosecution

After the Second World War , Burchardt was initially not involved in proceedings before the tribunal because of the amnesty for returnees.

His connections to the American secret service, where he was valued as an expert on the East from 1947 onwards, also protected him from further measures, for example in the Nuremberg trials against the Einsatzgruppen. He offered the cooperation in return for the exception from prosecution. He was classified as an important informant. He had previously worked with the British CIC in 1946 and 1947. The CIC assumed that Burchardt was involved in war crimes.

With his portrayal of the "handling of the Russian problem during the Nazi era", he allegedly laid the foundation for MI6 activities in Eastern Europe.

Because of the possible war crimes and his secret service connections, he was also the subject of research by the Stasi, which spied on him in 1969 and 1970.

Professional and party political activity

After 1945 Buchardt was managing director of Bau-Finanz-GmbH in Mannheim . In the 1950s he was involved in the displaced party GB / BHE , for which he ran in vain in the 1953 federal election.

Fonts

  • Friedrich Buchardt: The law of the national minorities of Latvia in its importance under international, constitutional and administrative law . Riga, 1932.
  • The treatment of the Russian problem during the Nazi regime in Germany. Unpublished manuscript, ca.1946.

literature

  • Matthias Schröder: Baltic German SS leaders and Andrej Vlasov 1942–1945: "Russia can only be defeated by Russians": Erhard Kroeger, Friedrich Buchardt and the "Russian Liberation Army" . Schöningh Verlag, Paderborn / Vienna / Zurich 2003 (2nd edition), 256 pages, index, images.
  • Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 . (Updated 2nd edition).
  • Guy Walters, Hunting Evil: The Nazi war criminals who escaped and the quest to bring them to justice (2009), ISBN 9780593059913 .
  • Michael Garleff (Ed.): Baltic Germans, Weimar Republic and Third Reich, Volume 2, Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2001.
  • Timm C. Richter: War and Crime. Martin Meidenbauer Verlag, 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Old pharmacies of Riga - iAptieka. In: iaptieka.lv. Retrieved March 19, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Timm C. Richter: War and crime: situation and intention: case studies . Martin Meidenbauer Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-89975-080-5 ( google.com [accessed March 19, 2016]).
  3. ^ John Loftus , America's Nazi Secret: An Insider's History . Trine Day, 2010, ISBN 978-1-936296-69-9 ( google.com [accessed March 19, 2016]).
  4. ↑ Guy Walters: Hunting Evil: The Nazi War Criminals Who Escaped and the Quest to Bring Them to Justice . Crown / Archetype, 2010, ISBN 978-0-307-59248-4 ( google.com [accessed March 19, 2016]).
  5. ↑ The Nazi monster recruited by MI6 to spy for Britain. In: Mail Online. Retrieved March 19, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Buchardt, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baltic German SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1982
Place of death Nussbach (Palatinate)