Gerhard Nauck

Gerhard Christoph Friedrich Carl Nauck (born July 22, 1893 in Berlin ; † January 3, 1976 in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel ) was a German detective.

Life

Nauck was the son of pastor Johann Nauck and his wife Maria, geb. Brann. After attending school, he embarked on a career as a police officer. By the 1930s at the latest, Nauck was working as a detective in Berlin. During the Nazi era , Nauck came to the Reich Criminal Police Office (RKPA) led by Arthur Nebe , where he was given the responsibility for combating moral crimes. Accordingly, his area of ​​activity included the fight against lewd pictures, writings and advertisements. In this capacity, he was one of the few German detectives who, contrary to a basic instruction from Reinhard Heydrich , according to which German criminalists should avoid foreign trips, were allowed to travel abroad more frequently for training purposes.

In 1938, Nauck played an indirect role in the events that led to the overthrow of Reich Minister of War Werner von Blomberg : In January of that year, Nauck sent his colleague Hellmuth Müller , the head of the Reich Identification Service Center, a post of pornographic images. Among those portrayed in one of these pictures, Müller recognized Erna Gruhn, who had recently married the Reich Minister of War. The information on the relevant past of the Minister of War's wife was passed on to Adolf Hitler via several intermediate stops, who used it to force Blomberg out of his office and henceforth to exercise the essential powers of the Minister of War himself.

Despite his leading position in the police apparatus, Nauck, whom Heinz Höhne describes as an “anti-Nazi”, never joined the NSDAP or the SS . In 1949, Der Spiegel attributed this to the fact that Nauck could have afford it because his “specialist knowledge [...] simply couldn't be replaced”. With this assessment by Der Spiegel , which exonerates Nauck, it must be taken into account that a campaign ran in this news magazine in 1949 that all of Arthur Nebes' important former employees were of integrity, "the criminal police in the Nazi state had nothing to do with the SD or the Gestapo" and "nothing stands in the way of their reuse in the Federal Republic." Author of the mirror series in question The game is over - Arthur Nebe was the detective and SS-Hauptsturmführer "Dr. Bernhard Wehner , who was in charge of the capital crimes unit in Nebes RSHA Office V." There in the Reich Security Main Office , Nauck headed Section VB 3 (Moral Crimes) in Department VB within Office Group V (“Combating Crimes”) with the rank of criminal director . In this capacity, Nauck was “instrumental” in the persecution of Gypsies . In December 1943 Nauck was appointed head of the RKPA's Forensic Biology Institute.

literature

• The game is over - Arthur Nebe. Gloss and misery of the German criminal police , In: Der Spiegel from December 1, 1949.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Death register of the Hamburg-Eimsbüttel registry office No. 16/1976.
2. ↑ Joachim Stephan Hohmann: Robert Ritter and the heirs of criminal biology , Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 1991, p. 69 (Studies on Tsiganology and Folklore Studies, Volume 4) ISBN 3-631-43984-9
3. ↑ Heinz Höhne : " The order under the skull ", in: Der Spiegel from November 28, 1966.
4. ↑ Heinz Höhne: The Order Under the Totenkopf , 1967, p. 193.
5. ↑ " The game is over - Arthur Nebe. Gloss and misery of the German criminal police ”, in: Der Spiegel from December 1, 1949.
6. ↑ Lutz Hachmeister: The enemy researcher. The career of SS leader Franz Alfred Six. Munich 1998, p. 329
7. ↑ ibid.
8. ^ Center for Historical Social Research: Historical-social Research , issues 66–72, 1994, p. 42.
9. ↑ Author of the mirror series in question The game is over - Artur Nebe was the Kriminalrat and SS-Hauptsturmführer Dr. Bernhard Wehner, see Lutz Hachmeister: The enemy researcher. The career of SS leader Franz Alfred Six. Munich 1998, p. 329