Gottfried Schapper

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Gottfried Schapper (born December 16, 1888 in Groß Möringen , Stendal district ; † in the 20th century ) was a German eavesdropping specialist, senior staff member and, from 1943 to 1945, head of the so-called research office of the Reich Aviation Ministry , an intelligence service.

Life

Schapper was the son of the Protestant pastor Karl Schapper and grew up with seven siblings. His eldest brother (son from his father's first marriage) is the resistance fighter against National Socialism, Karl Schapper , his youngest (like Gottfried from his second marriage) the provost Helmut Schapper .

In 1910 Gottfried Schapper was transferred to the flagjunker and lieutenant in the No. 2 railway regiment in Hanau and in 1913 to the radio operator. During the First World War , he was deployed on both the western and eastern fronts. From 1916 to 1917 he was director of the cryptographic office in the central command of the army and in 1919 dismissed from military service with the rank of captain .

He married that same year. In 1920 he became secretary in the national association and was a participant in the Kapp Putsch . Schapper joined the NSDAP in 1920 and remained a party member until 1923. Until 1927 he worked as a kind of manager for national organizations, newspapers, clubs and associations.

From 1927 on, Schapper played a key role in centralizing the scattered listening and decryption departments of the Reichswehr Ministry. He became head of the cryptographic office in the Reichswehr Ministry and, according to his own statements, resigned in 1933 because he was dissatisfied with what he believed to be incompetent methods on site. He rejoined the NSDAP in 1931 (membership number 536.206).

From 1933 to 1937 or 1938 he was a member of the SS (membership number 82,491) and had the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer . In 1933 he turned to Hermann Göring , whom he knew well from the First World War, and became head of a department, later head of a main department of the Research Office , which was assigned only by name to the Reich Ministry of Aviation . From October 12, 1943 to May 8, 1945, Schapper was its director. During his management, he initially worked in Berlin and after numerous bombings in Breslau and Kaufbeuren . He was arrested near Rosenheim in May 1945 and taken to Salzburg and Augsburg , where he was interrogated by the Allies .

Schapper had a son born in 1934.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Self-written curriculum vitae 1945 in: Army Security Agency: European Axis Signal Intelligence in World War II. Volume 7: Goering's "Research" Bureau - National Security Agency . (PDF; 9.0 MB) 1946, pp. 102-013 , accessed on June 1, 2020 (English).
  2. ↑ The Führer is listening. Retrieved June 14, 2013 .
  3. ↑ a b List of seniority of the NSDAP Schutzstaffel. As of December 1, 1936, pp. 68 f., No. 1498. (JPG; 1.12 MB) In: http://www.dws-xip.pl/reich/biografie/1936/1936.html . Retrieved November 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schapper, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German radio reconnaissance
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Great Möringen
DATE OF DEATH 20th century