Gustav Halswick

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Gustav Halswick (born March 1, 1902 in Cologne ; † February 14, 1974 there ) was a German police officer during the Nazi era and in the Federal Republic of Germany .

Life

Gustav Halswick completed his legal studies in Cologne in 1927 with a doctorate . In 1928 he joined the SA , in May 1937 he became a member of the NSDAP (No. 5,850,390) and the SS (No. 337,658). He was a detective in the Reich Security Main Office and taught courses at the Reich Security Police School . From May 1942 he was deployed to the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer with the commander of the security police and the SD in occupied France in Paris . On November 9, 1942, he received the War Merit Cross2nd class with swords. He was promoted to chief criminal officer on May 31, 1943.

Halswick was sentenced in absentia by the Paris Military Tribunal in 1951 to ten years imprisonment for participating in looting.

Grave of the Halswick family

In 1950, Halswick became a freelancer for the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) in the Federal Republic of Germany . In 1954 he founded a front company under the code name "Document Research". The Oberfinanzdirektion in Cologne was inaugurated so that the company could not inadvertently be exposed by a tax audit . From September 1955 the company employed around 40 researchers, who were gradually taken on as employees of the BfV. Halswick worked in the function of a "special representative" to the President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution Hubert Schrübbers . In 1957 he was regularly hired by the authority.

The VVN accused Halswick of having been involved in war crimes in Poland and the Soviet Union before 1945 as SS-Obersturmbannführer, based on documents it had received from the East German Ministry of State Security . In 1963, his past led to an inquiry from the Federal Ministry of the Interior to the Central Office of the State Justice Administrations for the investigation of National Socialist crimes . The last preliminary investigation against him for the shooting of hostages ended in 1981, 7 years after his death.

His grave is in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (hall 50).

literature

  • Bernhard Brunner: The France Complex. The National Socialist Crimes in France and the Justice of the Federal Republic of Germany . Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2004
  • Richard Breitman and others: US intelligence and the Nazis . Cambridge University Press, New York, 2005.
  • 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

Fonts

  • The commercial delivery note . Typescript. Cologne, law. Diss. V. June 18, 1927

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gustav Halswick , with Witamy wszystkich zainteresowanych tematem III Rzeszy Niemieckiej w latach 1933–1945 r. (pl)
  2. ↑ a b c d Bernhard Brunner: The France complex . 2004, p. 188.
  3. ↑ According to the disclosed CIA file [1]
  4. ↑ Brunner writes "Safety Officer"
  5. ↑ Constantin Goschler; Michael Wala: Der Schatten , Süddeutsche Zeitung, March 9, 2013, p. V2 / 9.
  6. ↑ Andreas Förster: The protection of the constitution allows its history to be researched , Berliner Zeitung , July 14, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Halswick, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German policeman
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1974
Place of death Cologne