Horst Freytag

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Horst Freytag (born March 18, 1906 in Adamsheide , Osterode district in East Prussia ; † unknown) was a German lawyer , NSDAP member, SA and SS member (most recently in the rank of SS Obersturmbannführer ) and during the Second World War in 1940 until 1942 head of the secret state police (Gestapo) in Braunschweig and from the end of 1942 of the state police in Königsberg in East Prussia .

Life

Freytag was an agricultural apprentice from March 1923 to March 1924 and then an agricultural official. Freytag had been a member of the NSDAP since May 1, 1933 ( NSDAP membership number 1.815.143) and since July 1933 a member of the SA, from which he transferred to the SS on September 13, 1937 (membership number 290.222). In the meantime he had studied law . After he had passed the assessor examination in January 1936 , he was hired on September 24th of that year by the Secret State Police Office (Gestapa) in Berlin .

Gestapo leader in Braunschweig and Königsberg

On January 1, 1939, Freytag was transferred to the State Police (StaPo) in Königsberg. On August 31, 1939, he was appointed government councilor there . From September 9, 1940 to October 31, 1942, Freytag headed the Braunschweig state police station as the successor to Eduard Holste , where he was proposed for promotion to SS-Obersturmbannführer. His deputy was Otto Bührmann (1890–1956), who had been delegated to Braunschweig by the Gestapo from Hanover . On October 30, 1942, Freytag was reassigned to the Königsberg Stapo, of which he took over. His successor in office in Braunschweig was Günter Kuhl . Freytag was promoted to senior government councilor in Königsberg on January 25, 1943 . On April 20, 1943 he became SS-Obersturmbannführer.

In the final phase of the Second World War his trail is lost.

literature

  • Gerhard Wysocki: The Secret State Police in Braunschweig. Police law and police practice under National Socialism. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / New York, 1997, ISBN 3-593-35835-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Łukasz Najbarowski, Waldemar "Scypion" Sadaj: Numery członków SS od 290 000 do 290 999. In: dws-xip.pl. April 23, 2013, accessed January 14, 2020 (Polish).
  2. ↑ a b Gerhard Wysocki: The Secret State Police in the state of Braunschweig. Police law and police practice under National Socialism. P. 74, FN 136.
  3. ^ Gerhard Wysocki: The Secret State Police in the state of Braunschweig. Police law and police practice under National Socialism. P. 75.
  4. ↑ Klaus Mlynek : Gestapo Hanover reports… Police and government reports for central and southern Lower Saxony between 1933 and 1937. Lax, Hildesheim 1986, ISBN 978-3-7848-3151-0 , p. 234, FN 29.
personal data
SURNAME Freytag, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, NSDAP member, SA and SS member
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Adamsheide , Osterode district in East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH 20th century