Hans Daufeldt

Hans Daufeldt (born January 20, 1908 in Kappeln ; † 1974) was a German SS leader.

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Daufeldt was the son of a foreman. After attending elementary and middle school, Daufeldt began a commercial apprenticeship. In the early 1930s he was unemployed. In 1932 Daufeldt joined the NSDAP ( membership number 753.151) and the SS (36.167).

In the spring of 1933 Daufeldt was deployed as an auxiliary police officer in Kiel. In June 1933 he was accepted into the security service (SD) of the SS . After completing the driving school in Bad Tölz , he became Reinhard Heydrich's adjutant in the management of the SD main office for a year and a half . In 1936 he was sent to Great Britain at party expense for a year , where he studied at the Commercial School of the London Chamber of Commerce . In 1938 he acquired an interpreting diploma for the English language at the University of Berlin abroad .

In accordance with his training, Daufeldt headed Group VI D (Anglo-American sphere of influence) in the Reich Security Main Office during the Second World War . Wildt characterizes Daufeldt - who achieved at least the rank of SS-Obersturmbannführer - as a case of "hardly thought possible ascent with the help of the SD".

In 1942, Daufeldt was sent to Lausanne by Walter Schellenberg as a special representative for SD espionage in Switzerland . For disguise, he held the pro forma rank of Vice-Consul. After he left Switzerland on March 14, 1945, Daufeldt was interned in the United States. In 1946 he took part in the Nuremberg trials as a witness .

After the Second World War, Daufeldt lived as a hotel manager in Bad Tölz.

literature

• Florian Altenhöner: The man who started World War II. Alfred Naujocks: Forger, murderer, terrorist , Prospero Verlag, Münster / Berlin 2010. ISBN 978-3-941688-10-0 . Contains, among other things, the biographies of Kiel SS members who made careers in the SD Berlin.
• Michael Wildt : Generation of the Unconditional. The leadership corps of the Reich Security Main Office . Hamburger Edition , Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-930908-75-1 , p. 164 f.
• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .