Georg Klein (Gestapo)

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Georg Michael Klein (born September 2, 1895 in Egling , † April 14, 1966 in Kiel ) was a German lawyer, Gestapo officer and SS leader, most recently with the rank of SS Oberführer , Colonel of the Police and Senior Government Councilor.

Life

Klein finished his school career in July 1914 with the Abitur at a humanistic grammar school in Munich . After the outbreak of World War I, he volunteered for the Bavarian Army's Infantry Body Regiment in Munich and from spring 1915 took part in combat operations with the 15th Infantry Regiment "King Friedrich August of Saxony" . In Verdun he was captured in 1916 and returned as a reserve lieutenant in 1920 from a French prisoner of war back to Germany.

From 1920 to 1924 he studied law and completed his law studies after completing his legal clerkship in 1927 with the second state examination in law. He then worked as a government assessor in Landshut and from the beginning of August 1928 to mid-May 1934 as a district official in Regen .

After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he joined the SA at the beginning of July 1933 ; before that, he had worked for the Bund Oberland from 1921 to 1923 . In addition, he was district head of the NSV in Regen until May 1934 . With the rank of SA Rottenführer he moved to the SS in July 1934 (SS No. 107.200) and rose there in November 1941 to SS Oberführer. Klein joined the NSDAP in early May 1937 ( membership number 4,583,162).

Promoted to government councilor, he worked for the Bavarian Political Police for two years from mid-May 1934 . He then entered the service of the Secret State Police Office (Berlin) and was finally entrusted as a senior government councilor in 1936 with the management of the Leipzig State Police Office. From 1939 to December 1942 he was inspector of the security police and the SD (IdS) in Dresden and headed the state police control center in Dresden. Promoted to police colonel in October, he moved to Nuremberg as IdS in mid-December 1942 . From the beginning of June 1944 to September 1944 he was still active in Office IV (Gestapo) of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA). Then he was deployed as commander of the security police and the SD (KdS) in an unknown location.

After the end of the war he was under the alias Georg Kleinter as a prisoner of war. After his release from Allied internment, he moved to Kiel, where he then worked as a merchant under his real name.

literature

  • Adolf Diamant: Gestapo Leipzig: on the history of a criminal organization in the years 1933–1945. 1990.

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personal data
SURNAME Klein, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klein, Georg Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, Gestapo employee and SS leader
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Egling
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1966
Place of death Kiel