Gustav Barschdorf

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Gustav Barschdorf (born May 9, 1908 in Peterswaldau ; † unknown) was a war criminal convicted in 1974 and until 1964 a senior official of the Hamburg Office for the Protection of the Constitution .

Life

Barschdorf was born in Peterswaldau near Reichenbach ( Dzierżoniów ) in Lower Silesia . Barschdorf was a detective with the Gestapo in the communist department of the Stapo in Vienna. During the Second World War he was SS-Hauptscharführer and worked for the Gestapo . From April 1940 he was employed as a senior criminal assistant for the Gestapo in Oslo to fight the Norwegian resistance there. In 1943 he became a member of the SS .

After the war he lived under a false name and at the end of 1952 he was employed as a freelancer at the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and from 1964 to 1973 at the Federal Office for Civil Protection , and from 1964 to 1966 at the Federal Statistical Office .

In 1974, at the age of 66, Barschdorf was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a Norwegian resistance fighter in 1942 when she was interrogated by the Gestapo in Oslo as a war criminal . The woman was so abused during an "intensified interrogation" on May 17, 1942, Norway's national holiday , that she died. His 71-year-old co-defendant Felix Gruber, also SS-Hauptscharführer and Gestapo officer in Oslo, was acquitted.

However, Barschdorf never had to commence his sentence, as the court declared him incapable of imprisonment for reasons of age and health.

literature

  • Constantin Goschler , Michael Wala: "No new Gestapo". The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Nazi past . Reinbek: Rowohlt, 2015, ISBN 978-3-498-02438-3
  • Constantin Goschler; Michael Wala: The shadow . Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 9, 2013, p. V2 / 9 (interim report on the research project on the organizational history of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution 1950–1975, with special consideration of the Nazi references of former employees in the founding phase )

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personal data
SURNAME Barschdorf, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German policeman
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Peterswaldau
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century