Hubert Geissel

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Hubert Geissel (born February 17, 1891 in Neindorf ; † 1938 in Berlin-Neukölln ) was a German police officer.

Life

Geissel was born in Neindorf Castle. On February 10, 1910, he passed the Abitur exam. He then served from April 1, 1910 to March 30, 1911 for a year as a one-year military volunteer.

On June 20, 1911 Geissel entered the police force as a police candidate. On January 2, 1913, Geissel was appointed detective inspector on probation and on July 1, 1913, he was appointed regular detective inspector

From 1914 to 1918 Geissel took part in the First World War, in which he was used as a field police commissioner from November 28, 1914. On January 27, 1915, he was promoted to lieutenant in the reserve.

Since the 1920s Geissel belonged to the criminal police in the Berlin Police Headquarters (Department IV). In this position he was promoted to the criminal police on August 1, 1932.

In July 1933 Geissel was transferred to the Secret State Police Office. Hans Bernd Gisevius claims in his memoir that he was involved in the investigation into the Adolf Rall case in connection with the investigation into the Reichstag fire of February 1933 . In particular, Gisevius reports that Geissel was involved in the murder of Rall, who had made unpleasant statements about the fire affair, and that he confiscated and disposed of compromising documents that Rall had sent to his mother. During the Reichstag fire trial , Geissel and Arthur Nebe were responsible for protecting the accused.

In January 1934, Geissel, who was also a member of the SA and a supporting member of the SS, was appointed field service leader in Main Department III B 3 of the Gestapa. On April 1, 1934, according to the Gestapa's staffing plan, he was, alongside Reinhold Heller , Karl Futh, and Konrad Nussbaum, one of four officers with the rank of Criminal Police Council and thus one of the five highest-ranking employees of the Secret State Police Office at that time.

In 1936 Geissel received the position of criminal director in Department IV (Abwehramt) of the Gestapa. Up to and including 1939 it was listed in the Berlin address book at Elsenstrasse 60 .

When the Berlin public prosecutor's office investigated the murder of Adolf Rall in the 1960s, Geissel's whereabouts could no longer be determined.

The birth register entry of the Neindorf registry office contains the information that Geissel died in Berlin-Neukölln in 1938. According to Fritz Tobias , Geissel died of suicide, allegedly taking his own life after it became clear that his wife was of non-Aryan descent.

Fonts

  • with Hans Schneickert: Burglary and theft and their prevention. Practical tips for protecting property and life. 1923.
  • with Walter Kurz: Beware! The little book on loss prevention. Against misdemeanors and crimes. 1925.
  • with Kurt Daluege : Criminology in Payment Transactions. A manual for authorities, banking institutions, trade and industry. 1934.

literature

  • Christoph Graf : Political police between democracy and dictatorship. The Development of the Prussian Political Police from the State Protection Organ of the Weimar Republic to the Secret State Police Office of the Third Reich , Berlin 1983.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Landesarchiv Berlin: List of names to the death register of the registry office Neukölln I, p. 139 (death certificate no. 1938/409).
  2. ↑ Oschersleben City Archives (Bode), Neindorf registry office, birth register 1891, No. 3
personal data
SURNAME Geissel, Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German police officer
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Neindorf
DATE OF DEATH 1938
Place of death Berlin-Neukölln